Mobile Roar 105: Alphabet Inc, Samsung Galaxy Note 5, and HTC is worthless

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This biggest story in tech this week was Alphabet, the new parent company for Google and all of the weird stuff Google likes to do. What will it mean for us? We also talk about the Samsung Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6 Edge+, the era of physical keyboards and cool flip phones, HTC’s sad downfall, and much more! Thanks for watching/listening!

Top Stories

• Alphabet Inc

Quick Hits

• One Galaxy Note 5 model may have an SD slot
• Samsung’ weird keyboard attachment
• Moto X Pure Edition launching Sept. 3rd
• Investors now consider HTC to be a worthless company
• Rite Aid to accept Apple Pay and Android Pay
• “Bendgate” problem has been solved, allegedly

Wins/Fails

• Joe: Snapchat Travel Mode / Tinder Twitter rant
• Chris: Twitter kills 140 character limit for DMs / OnePlus 2 “available”
• Ashley: PushBullet adds end-to-end encryption / DMCA Pixels takedown on Vimeo

App Picks

• Joe: Splash8
• Chris: Folio (Facebook replacement)
• Ashley: Microtrip

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