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Power strips don’t need to be bulky eye-sores. The Powercube is sleek, compact, efficient, and it keeps all your favorite gadgets up-and-running.

You can charge your phone, your tablet, your laptop, and more using just one socket, and thanks to Cult of Android Deals, you can get yours for just $17.95 — 10% off its regular retail price — for a limited time.

Photo: Jim Merithew/Cult of Android

Photo: Jim Merithew/Cult of Android

Samsung isn’t the only smartphone maker experiencing a decline in sales thanks to Apple’s latest iPhones. New data shows that the popularity of the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus caused Android sales to decline for the first time ever during the fourth quarter of 2014.

The S6 Edge. Photo: Samsung

The S6 Edge. Photo: Samsung

If you’ve been saving your hard-earned cash in anticipation of the upcoming Samsung S6 Edge, it could be well worth it for its performance alone. Early benchmarks indicate the device will the most powerful smartphone we’ve seen so far.

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Motorola’s new Moto E is here, and it ships with Android 5.0 Lollipop pre-installed for under $100. Adopters also get fairly decent specifications for such an affordable price tag, including a Snapdragon 200 processor and 1GB of RAM.

Samsung may be bidding a tactical retreat. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Mac

Samsung may be beating a tactical retreat. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Mac

Things aren’t looking too rosy for Samsung at the moment. Having seen profits slip due to its falling mobile sales, the flailing South Korean tech giant is reportedly considering throwing in the towel altogether in Japan, where it’s struggling more than elsewhere.

Samsung currently represents a miniscule 4 percent of the Japanese smartphone market, which puts it in sixth place. According to sources with Samsung, staying in Japan is actually losing rather than gaining the company money.

While Samsung hasn’t traditionally been a top-seller in Japan, here in 2015 it’s doing worse than ever: with the company’s favorite metric, marketshare, shrinking from 17 percent two years ago to low single digits today.

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