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it looks like the galaxy s6 will come in a few different flavors I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update it appears that the upcoming samsung galaxy s6 will come in several styles and that's according to exclusive images obtained by cnet Korea and our sister site ZDNet Korea a South Korean electronics distributor provided the images that show different versions of the s6 including an edge style version with a screen that curves over the sides we're only publishing one photo though to protect the sources identity the galaxy s6 is expected to be revealed at an event on march first during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Mobile World Congress is a major international trade show where we learn about upcoming smartphones and tablets and one new brand of phone you may soon hear more about is Polaroid yep Polaroid is making Android phones and a French Android news site reports that there's going to be several models called the Thunder the omega the cosmos and the Phantom I hope they have some feature built-in for when you shake it you know Polaroid for its cameras but actually it's not a stranger to the Android world it makes some tablets including 24 kids and speaking of obscure smartphones the first boom boom to phone is going on sale soon now if you're saying boom what that's okay it's mostly only known by tech nerds and developers right now the boon to operating system is open source and it's different than what's out there now because it won't have traditional apps instead it has these home pages called scopes that blend information from multiple online sources a nearby scope will show whether restaurants from time out and even nearby reviews from yelp your future phone may not scratch so easily the smartphone glassmaker Corning revealed that it's making a new type of Gorilla Glass material that's both tough and scratch resistant the composite is nicknamed project fire with a pH and it'll sell it to smartphone makers later this year in other news if you own a mac computer new photo library software is coming soon Apple's killing photo and the photo editing program aperture and replacing it with the program simply called photos a developer version is being circulated now and we have some details up at cnet but most folks will be getting it as a free software update in the spring as part of OS 10 Yosemite and the navigation of photos is similar style to what you find on the iPhone the whole thing is designed to make it easier for you to move photos between your iPhone your desktop computer and what you save to iCloud storage it will have tools to tweak your images but don't think of it as something that can compete with Photoshop that your tech news update you can find more details at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey