Samsung's Galaxy S5 will ship with more than $500 worth of premium app subscriptions and services.
Dubbed Samsung Galaxy Gifts, the services will include long-term subscriptions to fitness, productivity and lifestyle apps, premium app upgrades and subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Businessweek.
In total, the apps and services bundled with Samsung's latest flagship device will total as much as $576. In dollar terms, the most valuable are a six-month subscription to the WSJ ($160), three months of LinkedIn Premium ($75) and six months of 50GB of storage on Box ($60).
Also included with the handset: a host of fitness tracking and lifestyle apps. New S5 owners will get a year of Lark's premium service (which can take advantage of the S5's heart rate monitoring capabilities), a year of Run Keeper's elite membership and six months of premium membership to Map My Run and Skimble.
The bundle will also include three months of Evernote premium, three months of 1 TB of cloud storage from Bitcasa and more than $50 in freebies from PayPal when shopping from participating retailers.
This isn't the first time Samsung has bundled free apps and services with a new device. The company previously offered similar deals for its Galaxy Note 3 handset and Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet.
Samsung hasn't indicated whether any billing information will be required upfront to access the free trial subscriptions, and which (if any) will be auto-renewed when the trial period runs out. This will likely vary from app to app.
Dubbed Samsung Galaxy Gifts, the services will include long-term subscriptions to fitness, productivity and lifestyle apps, premium app upgrades and subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Businessweek.
In total, the apps and services bundled with Samsung's latest flagship device will total as much as $576. In dollar terms, the most valuable are a six-month subscription to the WSJ ($160), three months of LinkedIn Premium ($75) and six months of 50GB of storage on Box ($60).
Also included with the handset: a host of fitness tracking and lifestyle apps. New S5 owners will get a year of Lark's premium service (which can take advantage of the S5's heart rate monitoring capabilities), a year of Run Keeper's elite membership and six months of premium membership to Map My Run and Skimble.
The bundle will also include three months of Evernote premium, three months of 1 TB of cloud storage from Bitcasa and more than $50 in freebies from PayPal when shopping from participating retailers.
This isn't the first time Samsung has bundled free apps and services with a new device. The company previously offered similar deals for its Galaxy Note 3 handset and Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet.
Samsung hasn't indicated whether any billing information will be required upfront to access the free trial subscriptions, and which (if any) will be auto-renewed when the trial period runs out. This will likely vary from app to app.
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