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Now imagine someone asking this every time you want to purchase something with your smartphone, and you might understand why many mobile shoppers are abandoning their virtual shopping carts just before checkout.

Harris Interactive, in a study commissioned by Jumio, reported that 66 percent of people who use their i9500 S4 smartphones to shop have abandoned a shopping cart “due to obstacles encountered during checkout.” SeeWhy claims that the abandonment rate is closer to 97 percent and cites difficulty entering payment and shipping information on a mobile device as a problem for many shoppers. Either way, the mobile Web has more abandoned shopping carts than a Walmart parking lot.

Payvia’s service automatically detects a shopper’s cellphone number while they’re shopping and, with two taps, allows those shoppers to charge an item’s cost to their monthly phone bill. A text message confirming the charge is sent after the transaction has completed, and recurring subscriptions tell users at the end of each month how much they paid and when they’ll be charged again.fgvdsa3SD

This might be especially appealing in emerging markets, Wedd argues, because of the rising popularity of cellphones and smartphones. Payvia is partnering with Mobile XL, a Web browser for feature (“dumb”) phones, to spur that adoption within those markets. ”In terms of having a means for customers in emerging markets to transact the carrier is the perfect method,” Wedd says. “They have their phone, they use their phone, and they should be able to transact with that phone.”

As demand for smartphones continues to increase, mobile-related crime has risen with it. In the US, not only are smartphones a prime target for thieves looking to make a quick buck, organized crime gangs are paying large sums of money to ship devices outside the country. The Huffington Post takes a look at the massive global market for smartphones, detailing the operation of a US company that accepted so many stolen iPhones and iPads (to ship overseas) it needed an armored truck to deliver the stacks of cash it used to pay for them all.

While there are strict processes in place to restrict the trading of stolen smartphones in the US and neighboring regions, carriers lack arrangements with other countries, which allows international i9500 S4 1:1 smartphone trafficking to thrive. It explains why some stolen handsets are often traced to the Middle East and Southeast Asia, where smartphone prices can be up to ten times higher than in western markets.

According to Engadget Chinese, the ZTE Geek will indeed be the “world’s first Tegra 4 superphone” and comes with some pretty decent specs for a ZTE device too. Don’t get it confused with the previous geek-phone rocking an Intel Atom processor, this one is all NVIDIA silicon.Along with a micro-SD slot and a large battery of unknown size, the Geek U988S will be launched exclusively on China Mobile. For now this is the first smartphone to rock the Tegra 4. Previously all reports have been tablets (linked to below) but hopefully more smartphones make an appearance. We’re looking forward to the Tegra 4i with 4G LTE support, which will be arriving later this year or early 2014.