Samsung revs up for Galaxy S5 launch, at Mobile World Congress Barcelona

It's getting close to official – Samsung's going to roll out the Galaxy S 5 on Monday, Feb. 24 in Barcelona, kicking off this year's Mobile World Congress with a bang.

Invites to the upcoming “Unpacked” event went out earlier this week, and Samsung isn’t trying very hard to keep things obscure – there’s a superscript No. 5 right there on the invite. Note also that Samsung was nice enough to specify that this is “episode 1,” which leaves the door open for events heralding the 976,031 other devices the company will no doubt release in 2014.

At any rate – the notable thing here is that this doesn’t fit Samsung’s pattern for this type of major release. Last year’s Galaxy S 4 launch was a stand-alone event, which meant that Samsung didn’t have to share the stage with the raft of competitors that will be present at MWC. (It was also, as I will probably never tire of pointing out, farcically embarrassing, and The New York Times says that Samsung’s planning to do a much less over-the-top presentation this time around.) There are usually rumors about major launches at big shows like CES and MWC, but the past few years haven’t seen many truly top-flight releases at those events.

This time, however, it looks like Samsung’s bringing the big guns to Catalonia – and it may have the stage effectively all to itself, given the paucity of rumors about other major releases scheduled for the show.




Rumored Specs

- Metal Casing ( Premium Feel)
- 4GB Ram
- 2K QHD display ; 560ppi
- Android KitKat 4.4
- No home button
- 2900mAh Battery
- Fingerprint Scanner underneath the screen
- 16MP Camera

YYYYASSSSS.. I am ready for Samsung to raise the bar yet again, and apple to once again try to catch up this year

Same , they will reveal something huge.

I now know my new phone when I'm eligible for my upgrade in December.

Their last phone was nothing special. I mean, was it the scrolling up and down with your eyes?

It was one of those features where in the future they will work on it harder to perfect it

More interested in the HTC ONE 2. This is my favorite tech conference of the year.

Apple aren't worried about MP. They work on Camera's differently.

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Plus what are the chances the S5 will have a 64 bit processor and a fingerprint sensor?

They are not sure where they are to include a 64bit processor yet. However there is rumored to include a fingerprint scanner underneath the screen also a retina scanner.

64 bit doesn't bother me much although it was called a "gimmick" by the industry until it proved to be super fast.
BUT I think if Samsung included a fingerprint scanner like Apple did that's taking it a bit too far.

I don't mind when companies borrow from each other, but to use the same idea less than 5 months apart is a bit steep. Samsung should at least wait until the S6 to do something like that.

This is not confirmed to be the unveiling of the S5 but I think it's likely. I recently got the S4 so I hope they delay this a bit