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so it turns out it's been a big week in the world of news for samsung because good old Sammy is not only shying away from using the Snapdragon 810 but they're promising less bloatware in the s6 and maybe we've seen some leaked images of the s6 and its third-party case may be so let's start off with a suggestion that the s6 will have less blow where features that are built into the operating system like multi-window are likely to stay put but there's a good chance that the number of pre-loaded standalone apps will drop significantly with that being said Samsung is likely to keep the most prominent and successful ones we got to remember that the average Samsung user out there doesn't know the difference between Google services apps like Gmail and Google now and Samsung's native apps so I don't know if it's going to make that much of a difference above and beyond our own little tech geeky community so you remember all that hoopla last week about cyanogen well it turns out that a major tech company has become an investor in cyanogen and this could potentially have major ramifications that tech company Microsoft if the wall street journal is to be believed microsoft is a minority investor in the latest round of equity funding that managed to secure 70 million dollars for cyanogen while neither cyanogen or microsoft has yet to comment apparently several people familiar with the situation have spoken up about the matter Microsoft isn't alone in cozying up to cyanogen either as many other strategic investors have said to be interested in investing mainly because they want a piece of the Android pie and are hoping to steal some of Google's control over Android after all Google's certification terms dictate what the default search engine will be for each phone what many of the default apps will be out of the box and several other aspects of the operating system although this translates to a solid experience for end-users it makes it harder for app makers and service providers to get any attention from their own alternatives to google apps now let's just think about the full ramifications of this let's say cyanogen does succeed at least to some measure in these wild claims they have to pull android away from Google at least a little bit this would be a good signal that maybe Microsoft is doing a good thing and they should invest more maybe even buy cyanogen and possibly increase their market share because right now they only have three percent of the mobile market could be interesting we'll see how that looks in two to three years so apparently the drama surrounding a Snapdragon 810 and it's overheating issues has not stopped because apparently Samsung might not be using the 810 at all about a week ago we first caught wind of a report from Bloomberg claiming that Samsung would be relying on its own Exynos processor for the galaxy s6 with the biggest reason being that Samsung had reportedly ran into overheating issues while testing at the Snapdragon 810 now Qualcomm has seemingly confirmed that this is more than just a rumor while Qualcomm didn't say that Samsung isn't using the Snapdragon 810 in its next flagship device they did reveal that they are adjusting the revenue expectations for the second half of the year due to the fact that quote a large customer quote has elected not to use welcomes latest chip in their flagship device putting two and two together it seems more than likely that Samsung is the large company that Qualcomm is referring to as few other OEMs are big enough to make Qualcomm completely readjust the revenue expectations now I'm here to warn you that some of you may have seen these leaked images of the alleged samsung galaxy s6 in its third-party case but don't take it too seriously here we go again spigen the well-known case manufacturer is trying to squeeze out some early SEO juice by putting up cases for a highly anticipated device that is still weeks away it happened with the HTC One m8 the Nexus 5 and now they're trying again with the galaxy s6 the images posted here are from speech ins Amazon listing and allegedly show Samsung's eagerly awaited new entry into the Galaxy S series the clear case in particular appears to be giving us a good look at the galaxy s6 which if rendered correct looks a lot like the galaxy s5 save for the different placement of the flash and the sensor module is this it after Samsung promised us new materials and innovative designs will it deliver a galaxy s5 local I probably not last year's pigeon put up the galaxy s5 cases before the device was even announced and while their render of the device was somewhat close to the real thing it was not entirely accurate in speech ins galaxy s5 rendition the device had a two tone flash but no heart rate scanner and rather amusingly no home button so the moral of the story don't choke on that big grain of salt thanks for watching android army my name is Jace I'd love to connect with you right here on Google+ or Twitter 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