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Mobile Minutes: Swatch, Visa team up; Amazon gets primed; The future of TV; Older smartphones

Watch out, Apple Watch: Visa and Swatch are coming for you in 2016.

If it weren't for Prime, Amazon might have just been the name of a river in South America.

Today?s televisions are smarter than ever. Thanks to on-board intelligence or devices like the Apple TV or Roku, TVs can, for the first time, run apps like Netflix or Amazon Instant Video.

Between splashy launches, lavish new-phone offers (get a free HDTV on activation!) and frequent software updates that slow down your old handset, it sometimes feels like the entire technology industry is pushing you to buy the latest smartphone. Yet some holdouts resist.