Android Circuit: Supercharged Galaxy S6 Active Leaks, Android 5.1 And Bloatware, Google Attacks iOS

Taking a look back at the week’s news across the Android world, this week’s Android Circuit highlights a number of stories including the cost of the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, pre-orders for Samsung’s new phones, the S6 Active leaks, the release of Android 5.1 by Google and 5.0 by Sony, Android Wear’s new features, the Chromebook Pixel’s USB-C update, Google Calendar on iOS, and the upcoming rise of bloatware on Android.

Android Circuit is here to remind you of a few of the many things that have happened around Android over the last seven days (and you can read the weekly Apple news digest here).

How Much For The Galaxy S6?

Samsung’s Galaxy S6 (and to a certain extent the Galaxy S6 Edge) continues to dominate the Android news. Ahead of its public availability in April, Forbes’ Gordon Kelly has been looking at the potential price of the handset. While subsidised costs will probably sees the handset available for $199, the true price is much higher and it feels like a bad piece of strategy:

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