Tim Cook introduces Apple Pay. Wait, that’s Samsung Pay. Photo: BusinessKorea

Samsung is rightfully envious of Apple’s mobile payment service Apple Pay, which has swept the mobile payments world since being introduced at the end of 2014. With that in mind, it’s introduced its own “Samsung Pay” rival service, which it hopes will sway customers back in the South Korea tech giant’s direction.

But with Apple having both a lead-time advantage and the “halo effect” of a beloved brand behind it, Samsung’s trying to appeal to something a bit more base when it comes to swaying people in favor of its mobile payment service: cold, hard cash.

According to new reports coming out of Korea, the company has decided not to collect fees on Samsung Pay, rather than the 0.0015 percent demanded by other mobile payment services. Samsung allegedly won’t charge partnered credit card companies either, or from service providers for online payments.

Will you pre-order a Galaxy S6 Edge? Photo: Samsung

Can’t wait to spend your hard-earned cash on the new Galaxy S6 or S6 Edge? If you want yours on Verizon, you can place your pre-order on April 1, the carrier has confirmed.

This could be the only smartphone supported by Google’s network. Photo: Google

Google has already confirmed plans to experiment with its own wireless services to “show what’s possible,” and we know it’s going to be limited in its reach. So limited, in fact, that you might need Google’s own Nexus 6 smartphone to connect to it.

You might want to move onto the “next” phone after the Galaxy S6. Photo: Samsung

The Samsung Galaxy S6 may borrow its physical form factor, software design, and, yes, even EarPods from the iPhone 6, but there’s one thing Samsung forgot to pilfer: quality.

According to new reports coming out of Asia, the newly-unveiled Samsung Galaxy S6 and SGS6 edge handsets both suffer from a pretty grievous fault — in the form of a display error that stops them properly reading touch inputs around the bezel.

Check out the photos and video after the jump.

Cyanogen’s CEO thinks Samsung’s days at the top are numbered. Photo: Cyanogen

Samsung may have just announced its best smartphones ever at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but according to Cyanogen, Inc. CEO Kirt McMaster, that’s not going to help the company’s declining smartphone sales and falling profits.

McMaster believes that the South Korean company — and other high-end smartphone makers — will be “slaughtered” by new competition over the next five years.