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The post Samsung to revamp their mid-range smartphones in India with more premium features appeared first on BardTech . In the last few years, Samsung has faced tough competition from Xiaomi in the budget and mid-range price segments and from OnePlus in the premium segment. Xiaomi overtook Samsung last year to become the largest smartphone vendor in India by volume. Xiaomi then held on to its number one position in Q4 2017 and Q1 2018 . The competition heated up in Q2 2018 as Samsung either caught up with Xiaomi ( according to Canalys ), or overtook Xiaomi to regain first place ( according to Counterpoint Research ), or failed to match Xiaomi’s sales and remained in second place ( according to IDC ). Despite the conflicting statistics, one thing is clear: Samsung is facing competition on a scale never seen before. In the budget and mid-range segments, the company’s phones aren’t competitive in terms of specifications against phones made by Xiaomi, Asus, Realme, and Honor. In th...

The post Smartphones for Cryptocurrency Owners appeared first on BardTech . We expect blockchain and digital currencies to have a significant impact on how we use our phones, including how we make and accept mobile payments. There are now hundreds of utility tokens, typically launched using the ERC-20 standard on the Ethereum blockchain, that provide users access to specific, usually decentralized, networks or services. It’s possible one-day soon our phones will become always-on nodes for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, routing peer-to-peer payments between and among people and we’ve never met. In the meantime, traders and investors speculate on the future by buying these coins, and there are dozens of apps for holding cryptocurrencies on any Android device. Assuming you use one that is reputable, these software wallets function perfectly well as hot wallets for walking-around money. Bitpie, for example, has built-in exchange functionality for managing your crypto investment account ...