Datum 2014
Samsung: Galaxy S5
out by April, may scan
your eyes
phone.
The new phone is expected to look different from
Samsung's popular Galaxy S4, shown here.
"We've been announcing our first flagship model in the
first half of each year, around March and April, and we are
still targeting for release around that time," Lee said.
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Samsung says its Galaxy S5 phone will be released
pect a Gear successor with more advanced functions, and
the bulky design will also be improved."
by April.
"When we release our S5 device, you can also ex-
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tronics Show in Las Vegas, Lee wouldn't say whether the
»» Galaxy S5 will have a different design.
The
eye scanner -- presumably an effort to one-up Apple's
Speaking at the International Consumer Elec-
iPhone 5S with its fingerprint security feature -- is a sure
thing. "Many people are fanatical about iris recognition
technology," she said. "We are studying the possibility but
can't really say whether we will have it or not on the S5."
She did say the S5 will look and feel significantly
different than its predecessor, which some felt wasn't different enough from the Galaxy S3.
"When we moved to S4 from S3, it's partly true
that consumers couldn't really feel much difference be-
Samsung executives have said the Galaxy S5 smartphone
will hit stores by April. It follows the S4, a big-screen,
feature-laden phone that emerged as the top rival to the
once virtually unrivaled iPhone. Samsung says the S5
will have a different design and, possibly, eye-scanning
technology.
tween the two products from the physical perspective, so
the market reaction wasn't as big," she said. "For the S5,
we will go back to the basics. Mostly, it's about the display
and the feel of the cover."
In November, Samsung released the Galaxy
Round, with a curved, 5.7-inch screen. That release was
Samsung’s Galaxy S5, the next generation of its
only in South Korea, and analysts have speculated the
flagship smartphone, will be released by April and may
company isn't done with curved-screen technology on its
include innovative eye-scanning technology.
phones. At CES this week, Samsung rolled out a massive,
105-inch television with a curved screen.
An executive for the Korean tech giant confirmed
to Bloomberg that the phone will hit stores this year on
roughly the same time table as previous iterations of the
the growing wearable tech trend forward but, like some
device, which has emerged as the chief rival to Apple's
other smartwatches, met with mixed reviews. Some felt
iPhone.
the watch was too bulky and had limited functionality.
The Galaxy S4 was announced last March and
released in April. Lee Young Hee, executive vice president for Samsung's mobile business, also told the news
service that a new version of the company's Galaxy Gear
smartwatch will be released at the same time as the new
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Released in September, Galaxy Gear helped push
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