If your iPhone has ever gone missing and you fear that it’s been stolen, don’t fret too much — it turns out there’s a pretty simple way to get it back that doesn’t involve calling the cops. The Verge’s Sam Sheffer over the weekend got his iPhone 6 Plus stolen right from his back pocket but instead of panicking, he borrowed his brother’s iPhone 6, installed Find My iPhone on it and got to work tracking the device. Below, we’re written up a step-by-step summary of how Sheffer got his device back.

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As if BlackBerry didn’t have enough to contend with in a market that is constantly threatening to leave it behind, CEO John Chen revealed in an interview with Financial Times this weekend that his wife would rather use her Samsung Galaxy than a Passport. One of the toughest challenges of his career so far has been attempting to convert his wife to BlackBerry.

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Samsung is known for using lots of hopelessly cheesy gimmicks to promote its products, including making its own unboxing videos for them, conducting its own consumer surveys about them and putting them through its own in-house drop tests. Now Samsung has taken these gimmicky promotions to absurd new heights by writing a review of one of its own smartwatches, the Gear S.

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Both the Galaxy S5 and the Galaxy Note 4 were incredibly solid entries from Samsung this year, but they lack an element of surprise that many smartphone users have come to expect from their favorite vendors. As Samsung’s profits continue to sink, the company is desperately looking for ways to entice new users and satisfy old ones, but a concept from 3G.co.uk might show off exactly what the Galaxy S6 needs to look like for Samsung to turn things around.

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Can you put a price on love? What about a price on being humiliated in ways that will scar you for the rest of your life? As The Nanfang reports, one man has found that the price for both of these things is 99 iPhone 6 units.

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Target on Monday announced its Black Friday deals, teasing that this year it’ll offer buyers the “biggest, most digital Black Friday ever. The company says customers will “have more opportunities than ever to get access to Target’s top holiday gifts at Black Friday prices.”

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Samsung has recently announced the Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5, its first metal smartphones that should launch in certain Asian markets this month. A recent report stated that Samsung encountered certain manufacturing problems when making the handsets, which explains their delayed launch. But that doesn’t appear to be the only problem for Samsung, as hi-tech.mail.ru reports the phones may have a serious design flaw that could affect their performance.

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HTC announced last week that it will be offering huge limited-time sales every Tuesday for nine weeks, and it started things off with a huge sale that offered up to half off on the just-released Nexus 9 tablet from Google and HTC. Now, the company is back with its second big sale, and the discounts are even deeper — but there’s a huge caveat.

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Even though buyers already knew AT&T will be one of the U.S. mobile operators to carry the Nexus 6, the company was quiet about Nexus 6 launch plans until Tuesday, when it finally announced availability details for Google’s latest Nexus-branded smartphone.

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We started off this week with a bang, sharing eight great paid iPhone and iPad apps that were made available for free for a limited time. Some of them can still be downloaded for free if you hurry, but today we have a fresh new batch of apps to share with you. Mobile photography fans will find several awesome options in Tuesday’s list, and there are a few non-camera apps in there as well. As always, these sales could end at any time so be sure to download anything that looks appealing right away.

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