Memory cards are more affordable now than they have ever been before, but that doesn’t mean you should just head down to your local big box electronics retailer and buy one off the shelf. There are always savings to be had for smart shoppers, and if you follow the BGR Deals Team’s posts, you’re a smart shopper.

Until midnight on Tuesday night, Amazon is holding a sale on two high-quality Micro SD cards, one 64GB model and one gigantic 128GB model. While your iPhone-toting friends struggle with annoying “out of storage” errors every time they try to shoot a new video, you can sit back and relax knowing that your smartphone has more storage than you’ll ever user.

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At one point during Samsung’s Galaxy S6 presentation in early March, the company triumphantly announced Samsung Pay, bragging that unlike the competition’s similar product it’ll work with any existing payment terminal. The move was a direct response to the iPhone 6’s Apple Pay feature introduced a few months earlier, which gave a significant boost to the entire mobile payments ecosystem.

Now, let’s play the speculation game: which iPhone 6s feature do you think Samsung will introduce during next year’s Galaxy S7 media event?

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So you bought yourself a shiny new iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus. Congratulations, you now own the fastest smartphone on the planet, which according to our in-depth iPhone 6s review also provides the smoothest user experience in the world by a wide margin. Of course, Apple’s new iPhones are about much more than just speed and performance. There are a wide range of new features that make the new 6s and 6s Plus fantastic upgrades; in our review we said this was easily Apple’s biggest iPhone upgrade ever.

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Wait, what? And why? A new leak has revealed that Pepsi — yes, that Pepsi — is making an Android phone. Android Headlines has spotted a listing for a new phone on a Chinese website called the Pepsi P1 that appears to be Pepsi’s first attempt at making its own smartphone. Despite selling for roughly $200, it looks like the device will have some decent specs.

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We’re going to level with you… if you own a laptop with a hard drive that spins, you’re doing yourself a disservice. Solid State Drives offer huge speed and performance advantages over older disk based drives, and SSD storage is now more affordable than ever. There’s really no reason to avoid upgrading your old spinner to begin with, but now you really have no excuses because Amazon is offering big savings on four different SSDs during a special one-day sale.

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Material Design is one of the cornerstones of Google’s Android when it comes to overall design and user interface elements, and the company hasn’t been shy about wanting to use the same design principles for mobile and web apps. Google has slowly updated its mobile apps to Material Design surrounding Lollipop’s launch last year, and the company is moving forward with similar plans for the web. The overhauled design has now finally reached one of Google’s most prized possessions, the web version of Google Maps, which now mirrors the Android and iOS interface.

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Back in January at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, I saw the future. It’s a bright, exhilarating future where nearly everything around us is connected. The “Internet of Things” isn’t just a buzz term, it’s the start of a transition toward that connected future, when the devices in our homes, offices, cars and on our bodies all communicate and automate.

But there still needs to be a bridge between the user and the connected devices that surround him or her. A means of controlling everything quickly, easily and perhaps most importantly, naturally.

Meet Bird, which could very well be our first glimpse at that device.

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After various reports claimed that Dell had been eyeing EMC as a merger target, Dell on Monday finally confirmed it’s indeed going to purchase the company, creating a “premier end-to-end technology company.”

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BlackBerry’s first foray into the world of Android devices comes in the form of the upcoming BlackBerry Priv. Originally introduced in September, the lure of the device will reportedly be a melding of Android with traditional BlackBerry security and productivity features. Now whether or not users will care is another question entirely, but that’s the strategy that BlackBerry has opted to go all-in with.

Now we’ve already seen some official shots of the BlackBerry Priv surface over the past few weeks (see above), but derStandard over the weekend published new photos which provide our closest look yet at the hardware BlackBerry is hoping might keep it from abandoning the smartphone market altogether.

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Liked Fargo (the movie and TV series)? The Big Lebowski? Burn After Reading? No Country for Old Men? You have the incredibly imaginative Ethan and Joel Coen to thank for these films, and many other ones. The brothers have also received Academy Awards for Fargo (in 1996) and No Country for Old Men (2008), so they know plenty about making movies, and about making movies the audience will love. With that in mind, it shouldn’t be surprising to see the Coen brothers’ working on a film about making movies. And the first trailer for the upcoming hilarious comedy/drama/musical is already out, revealing the plot and the incredible cast working with the Coens.

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