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While Apple fans wait for the Apple Watch to start shipping in April, Samsung fans will get their first look at the South Korean giant's new handset on March 1st. Samsung sent out invites for its yearly Unpacked event, which will take place in Barcelona, Spain during the Mobile World Congress.

The all black invite features the profile of a curved device and the tagline “What’s Next”. The invite doesn't specify what Samsung will unpack at the press conference, but rumors have pointed to the company unveiling two devices -- the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge.

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) shares bounced back and reached a record high last week after the company announced its record breaking Q1 FY15 earnings last Tuesday, just after the closing bell. Stock prices jumped 5.5% on high volume trading on Wednesday, and hit a record high of $120 on Friday, though by closing time they were down to $117.16.

Apple's record quarter included a record revenue of $74.6 billion, a 30% increase over the year ago quarter. This resulted in a record quarterly net profit of $18 billion. Revenue was driven by record iPhone sales of 75.4 million units. The company also offered guidance for the second quarter - revenue between $52 and $55 billion, a gross margin of 38.5% - 39.5% and operating expenses of $5.4 to $5.5 billion.

Apple has chosen ProCam 2 as its App of the Week, in the Featured section of the iOS App Store. ProCam offers a variety of souped up photography tools that normally cost $1.99. Officially titled ProCam 2 - Camera and Photo / Video Editor, users have rated all versions of the app with a total of 4.5 out of 5 stars.

ProCam is iOS 8 ready, with an extension for its custom editing tools to be used directly in the stock Photos app. The list of features is extensive, including a slew of shooting modes, manual camera controls, lenses, filters, adjustment tools and a frame by frame video timeline. To top it off, the iPhone 5s and later can get 4K video support with a $4.99 in-app purchase.

The official Outlook email client has arrived on iOS. This all-in-one free app provides access to Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Outlook.com, iCloud, Gmail and Yahoo Mail. Calendar and attachment access is fully integrated, with easy access to Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox and other accounts.

Microsoft Outlook is based heavily on the former Acompli app, which the company acquired in December. Like Acompli, Outlook promises to unify calendar, contacts and attachments with email to improve mobile productivity. To top it off, Quick Filters and recent contacts make it easy to search for emails, meetings and files.

The highly anticipated Sons of Anarchy: The Prospect by Orpheus Interactive is getting hammered in the Customer Reviews section of the App Store. Even though the game supports iOS 6.0 it doesn't support older hardware such as the iPhone 4s and iPad 3. This is causing the game to crash which has earned it a two star rating. There is also very little talk about the game on the Touch Arcade forums and there seem to very few, if none, industry reviews, making it very hard to judge if this one is a dud or just suffering from a few release glitches. Sons of Anarchy: The Prospect is available on the App Store for $1.99.

Releasing games based on popular older movies seems to becoming a trend these days. First the lackluster Princess Bride game hit the App Store a few weeks ago, and now the creators of RuPaul’s Drag Race: Dragopolis have released Mean Girls: The Game for mobile devices. Mean Girls: The Game is a tower defense title where players must "fight off the new clique from piecing together the Spring Fling Tiara and taking over North Shore High School." The game is available for $3.99 on the App Store.