2 jumbo phones from Samsung ahead of expected new iPhone

NEW YORK (AP) — Samsung has unveiled two new Android smartphones with jumbo screens as it seeks to recapture some of the sales lost to Apple after larger iPhones came out last year.

Samsung said Thursday that the new Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge Plus will start shipping Aug. 21 in the U.S. and Canada.

[...] Samsung needs to beat Apple to the punch, or risk seeing its products drowned out by all the attention on the iPhone, IDC analyst Ramon Llamas said.

Samsung's Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge phones, which are closer in size to the regular iPhone 6, came out in April.

T-Mobile is throwing in a year of Netflix with both phones, while Sprint is giving away a low-end Samsung tablet with a two-year contract.

Samsung Electronics Co. also said its Samsung Pay mobile payment service will debut in its home country of South Korea on Aug. 20.

Though it appeals to a niche audience, the Note is popular for including a stylus to take notes and annotate images on the screen.

A new feature called scroll capture combines all those shots into one image, though you still need to snap them one section at a time.

The feature proved popular in this spring's S6 Edge, which used one of those sides for quick access to friends and other frequent contacts.

[...] rival Android phone makers have been able to offer decent cameras, displays and speeds for less money than Samsung phones.