Back in the dark ages, when the only way to get onscreen entertainment was by tuning in a television set at a specific time (get home late? miss your favorite show? too bad for you!), networks had a habit of scheduling similar shows opposite each other. The notion was presumably, that the competition would cause one show to win out over the other, which would eventually drop in the ratings and get cancelled. The idea that viewers might be interested in seeing both apparently was not in the networks’ psychology.

While (thankfully), we don’t have to worry about this kind of push anymore, it looks like smartphone vendors have decided that what was good enough for NBC, ABC and CBS back in the day is now good enough for them. Both Samsung and HTC have announced new flagship smartphones within a few days of each other. All three (the HTC One M9, the Samsung Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy Edge S6) are high-end phones with smart new designs, new features and a eye toward capturing the tech-savvy need-a-new-phone-every-six-months crowd.

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