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The South Korean company has sent out invitations to a February 24 event in Barcelona.
Samsung looks set to be taking the wraps off its latest flagship smartphone on the first night of this year's Mobile World Congress. The special event is scheduled to kick off at 8pm CET and will be streamed live on Youtube.
Although the company's existing premium handset, the Galaxy SIV, is one of the most popular in the world in terms of sales, it hasn't had quite the consumer impact that Samsung had hoped.
Indeed, in a recent interview with Bloomberg, Samsung executive Lee Young Hee accepted that the SIV wasn't as big a hit as it could have been because it wasn't sufficiently different from the handset it replaced and that the company wouldn't be making the same mistake again.
"For the S5, we will go back to the basics. Mostly, it's about the display and the feel of the cover," she said.
Then there's the latest iPhone which, thanks to its 64-bit processor, separate chip dedicated to fitness and motion tracking, plus its fingerprint scanner, has yet again set a new smartphone benchmark.
This means that Samsung has a lot of ground to make up and that the Galaxy SV will be more than just an incremental improvement over the SIV.
According to noted analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo, the new phone will push screen resolution and size up another notch. It is expected to have a 5.2-inch 565 ppi display and a 16-megapixel rear-facing camera.
The processor and RAM will also be beefed up but Samsung isn't yet ready to go to 64-bit. However, like Apple, it will be incorporating a fingerprint scanner into the device.
One potentially groundbreaking feature could be 3D gesture recognition, meaning that an owner could wave in the phone's general direction in order to control it, rather than having to physically make contact with the screen. // My Sinchew
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