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The South Korean Apple rival Samsung has started selling its new smartphone top models

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Seoul The eternal technology rivals Apple and Samsung have come a long duel on Friday: While in a few countries customers for the first time the computer clock Watch Apple could lay his wrist, Samsung brought many places its new flagship smartphone Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge in the sale. The South Korean company wants to offer the iPhone the US competition Paroli.

Japanese technology fans counted on Friday morning, the first customers around the globe to try the Apple Watch. Dozens prospective waited at low temperatures for hours before an Apple store in the capital Tokyo until the store opened its doors. Individually were customers to “try-on” of the device taken – they could take the watch but not Apple supplies the watch until April 24 from

The SmartWatch square screen works in conjunction with Apple’s iPhone. , Users can query with it to, e-mail, search maps for directions, phone calls and listen to music. The payment service pay Apple the computer clock is also a kind of electronic wallet. A central element are also health and fitness applications that measure, for example, the pulse

International Press .: To see the first tester Apple Watch

Officially it is from this day on pre-order but the first test reports from all over the world are already there. The opinion of the experts who were allowed to try out the clock advance is failed almost unanimous

Since Friday customers in nine countries -. Apart from Japan, including in Germany, France, Great Britain and the United States – the clock online pre order. The cheapest model costs 399 euros, the luxury version in yellow or rose gold can be bought for 11,000 euros.