Mobile Roar 68: CurrentC drama, DROID Turbo, and Nexus 6 pre-order disaster

Apple Pay has brought mobile payments to the mainstream, but is the mainstream ready yet? A service called “CurrentC” is blocking Apple Pay and Google Wallet are many retail stores. What gives? Motorola has rekindled their relationship with Verizon to pump out another DROID, but we wonder why the DROID Turbo was not the Nexus 6. All that, and much more, in this episode!

Big News

• Apple Pay/Google Wallet getting blocked by CurrentC
• Motorola DROID Turbo for Verizon announced

Quick Hits

• Nexus 6 pre-orders are a disaster
• Amazon announces the Fire TV stick
• Fire Phone sales are really bad
• FTC is suing AT&T for promising unlimited data
• Gold Moto 360 pops up on Amazon
• Microsoft launches “Microsoft Band” fitness wearable
• Google Glass banned in 56,000 movie theaters

Wins/Fails

• Kevin: Functional Project Ara prototype / Apple starts limiting notification widgets
• Joe: PHAN-O-LANTERN / Microsoft Band launch

App Picks

• Kevin: Algoriddim djay 2 for Android
• Joe: A week with Inbox

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