Samsung Galaxy S5 set to launch on February 23?

Russian blogger 'leaks' date and time of Samsung's S3 launch, it'll be a day before MWC

Russian phone leaker @eldarmurtazin has revealed that the Samsung Galaxy S5 will be launched on 23 February, a day before the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. So can we believe this guy? Well, he did correctly predict the launch date for the Galaxy S4, so we’ll take him seriously.

According to our Russian mole, the Galaxy S5 will feature a 5.25” 2560x1440 display, a new incarnation of the Touchwiz UI, eight-core Exynos processor or Snapdragon 805 quad-core processor and all-metal body.

So what else do we ‘know’ of the Galaxy S5 from our late night online trolls? The Taipei Times had reported that Catcher, a company that makes metal bodies for Apple and HTC, will be manufacturing Galaxy casings for Samsung in the first half of 2014, in magnesium and aluminum. The point noted, SamMobile mentioned that the Galaxy s5 may be launched in two iterations, a metallic version called the Galaxy F, and a plastic backed Samsung Galaxy S5. On the camera front, we could see a 13MP camera module on the S5, which according to Patent Bolt would support anti-shake correction of up to 1.5 degrees, far superior to other smartphones. The S5 could also be resistant to dust and water.

Gestures will definitely be bigger part of the action, we assume, right from re-imagined Air View and Smart Scroll to finer styles control. Plus, of course, Android 4.4 KitKat.

So what do you think the S5 should do that the S4 couldn’t? Just offload your wishlist to us…

Source:  http://arabia.msn.com/news/technology/technology-gadgets/2466266/samsung-galaxy-s5-set-to-launch-on-february-23/

Samsung Galaxy S5: Name, new specs almost confirmed

Samsung’s next flagship smartphone will be called the Galaxy S5, serial leaker @evleaks has claimed as part of a series of tweets on Wednesday.

He also said that the follow up to Samsung’s current flagship smartphone the Galaxy S4, will come with a 2K resolution and a fingerprint scanner.

While none of those rumours are new, the fact that @evleaks has tweeted them adds about as much credibility to them as possible short of Samsung announcing publishing the details itself.

Samsung has not confirmed or denied any of the features rumoured to be appearing in the Samsung Galaxy S5.

All of the tweets were accompanied by images that back up @evleaks’ claims.

The first is of a display showing Galaxy S5. The other images show text referring to two Android applications – “FingerprintService” and “3DTourViewer_WQHD”.

Previous rumours have claimed that the Samsung Galaxy S5 will come with a WQHD display. The same rumours claimed that the WQHD display would come with a resolution of 2,560 x 1,440 – known as 2K.

Rumours have been passing around for months now about the Galaxy S5. Just yesterday an earlier rumour that the smartphone would be coming with a 16 megapixel OIS lens was confirmed following the publishing of a picture that was taken by a Galaxy S5.

The phone is widely expected to be unveiled at Samsung’s Unpacked event at Mobile World Congress next month.

Source : http://arabia.msn.com/news/technology/technology-gadgets/2524926/samsung-galaxy-s5-name-new-specs-almost-confirmed/