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I am in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress. They won't give me a press pass since I don't work for a media organization, which means I don't get to go to press conferences like the one on Sunday night where Samsung announced their latest phone, the Galaxy S7. It seems a little underwhelming in many ways, although that is probably the case for any new phone, and even Samsung seems to realize it. If you pre-order a phone, then they will give you a free virtual reality headset. In fact, unless you are one of the leading journalists who get briefed and allowed to play with the phone under embargo, then you are probably just as good reading what those guys write than trying to see for yourself. The Galaxy S5 was waterproof and had a microSD slot, but for some weird reason the S6 had neither. Now both are back, and not just at Samsung, at almost everyone, largely because the iPhone has neither and there are very few other ways to differentiate.

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