Samsung to officially announce the Galaxy S5 in January?
This is something you should strictly file under rumors that have little chance of turning out to be right, but according to the Korean media, who cite sources inside Samsung, the Galaxy S5 will be officially announced in January next year. The reason? Well, it’s apparently the disappointing sales of the Galaxy S4, so Samsung is hoping to get the next flagship out earlier than usual, supposedly in February.
The Galaxy S5 is expected to be the first Samsung flagship to sport a metal construction instead of a plastic one, and also debut Samsung’s 64-bit Exynos processor with simultaneous eight-core processing and a high-end 16-megapixel camera with optical image stabilization and improved low-light photography. As has been the tradition since the Galaxy Note II, it will likely run on Android 4.4 out of the box.
Again, none of this is confirmed, so take everything with a giant pinch of salt. Launching a flagship less than a year after the previous one, and especially just a few months after the Galaxy Note 3, doesn’t seem like the brightest thing to do, but we’ll just have to wait and see what Samsung is planning.
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Now what I’m trying to figure out is why everyone is complaining about them releasing devices every other 6 months or year. But why the hell would you? MY S3,Had since launch. Still runs like a damn champ and I’ve had no problems. I love and use CM. Just because they release a new phone every 6months (which apple does btw) DOES NOT MEAN YOU NEED TO get a new phone. It’s called technology and technology is always, I mean always evolving and being added to new phones whether we like it or not. I personally don’t care, I’ll be… Read more »
Not neccessarily, TouchWiz enhances alot of features in stock Android, in addition to offering additional capabilities that you dont’ have on Nexus devices. Also, (prior to the Moto X), TouchWiz has been much closer to stock Android than HTC’s Sence, Moto’s Blur. Also, the hardware offered in the Galaxy S phones have been industry leading. Top performing processors, one of the best screens, data radios. The Nexus line of Phones are JUST getting LTE, while it’s been available from Samsung Galaxy S phones since the S2 Skyrocket) (Which was released over 2 years ago) That said, all these extra features… Read more »
Just remake touchwiz with a more refresh UI or fix the battery life issue for the next flagship.
I agree in this ad the S4 battery sucks like hell the S3 was better in Battery life I guess htc one would have had been a better option
I couldn’t care less. When S2 was released, the competition was weak. Now the competition is getting stronger every day. I have a S4 but if I was going to buy a smartphone right now, I would never buy S4 Snap 600, there are better, newer and more interesting smarts to buy in the market. They’re only trying to catch up with the competition.
Hey everybody….dont believe it….Samsung won’t do want to kill themselves so early….it just rumours….they still want to earn more money with Note 3….April will be the date probably….not now
Is there a way Samsung can be reading our contributions in this forum? It might give them necessary feedback needed to avoid making foolish decisions.
This would be nice, but if they did come here all they’d be reading is empty demands or incessant whining from most people.
Take this rumor with a grain of salt. – If Samsung release S5 too early, it would have pissed off S4 owner for having such a short life span of a flagship phone. – It would have hurt the sales of Note 3 for releasing S5 too early. – The development of 64-bit Exynos SOC would take time. Why don’t Samsung go back to the drawing board and think about why their sales flopped? For me, it’s the unclear positioning of their Exynos chip against the Qualcomm equivalent. If they want to have their own designed chip like Apple they… Read more »
I agree.
They have already made the 64 bit Exynos SOC as the A7 64 bit chip in apple is made by Samsung its self of there is a probability of them having sotck of it already
I support this thought and hope it does come true. If they felt dissatisfied or disappointed by the S4 from a sales standpoint then bring something better to market that will sell. Either people will buy or go fly a kite. Samsung rules period.
I disagree. Sales on the S4 could be down because Samsung has saturated the market with dozens of iterations of their other phones. How many versions of the S4 are out there? (Snapdragon, Exynos, Active, Mini, just to name a few off the top of my head) How about the Note line of phones? Look at the other 5-10 phones Samsung released in other international markets (most of which come at a much lower price than the flagship S4) Almost forgot about the Mega line… Releasing all of these phones every year create a situation where their flagship phones end… Read more »
Who said the sales of the S4 were disappointing?
Samsung. They think that 20 million is too low?
Its not low but the S3 is a more positive device this year also even after the S4 came out in the market
Maybe a rumour throwed by the competence to scare the samsung buyers in the pre-christmas sales ?
But, from Samsung, I can expect anything, there always be some folks that can´t live without the last flagship phone.
The problem is they would be stupid enough and user “unfriendly” enough to do just this. We’re wasting so much money buying phone after phone within months of one another.. Having been a samsung fan since the Galaxy S, i’m strongly considering moving to apple.
By now, they’re no more expensive and at least they don’t spout out phones within months of eachother.
I have been a devoted Samsung user since the first galaxy S phones as well, but if they make this move come to fruition, it will truly demonstrate to me that they don’t care for their customer’s loyalty as much as they should. If they actually do this, i too will be switching to a phone company that focuses on updating their flagship phone’s firmware instead of spitting out new devices every couple of months. Sorry Sammy, i don’t approve of this “rumoured” move.
i agree… too many new devices… and firmware updates to older devices is a forgotten story…
I guess its because of the F series rumoured as they have to put it in a good date as it will be coming eit the best specs better then the S series
So you (and others) are saying you don’t care if you have a good phone, you just don’t want anyone else having a better one than your’s… 🙁
Sorry if I misunderstand…
Yeah, I have to agree with this, that’s what it sounds like
That’s not what they are saying. They are saying that Samsung’s “shotgun blast” of new phones every year make it VERY expensive for consumers to keep up. If you are purchasing a flagship Galaxy S Series, or Note Series, of phones outside of the US, you are likely paying full price for these devices ($800+ USD). If you are purchasing one of these flagship phones in the US, you’re likely locked into a 2year contract..AFTER spending $200 USD. From a consumer standpoint, when do you pull the trigger, if you know you’re phone will be a legacy device, and largely… Read more »
ah! thank you for the explanation. unfortunately I still don’t buy it. You say “From a US perspective, having to miss out on 1 device (during your 2 year contract) is problematic…”. Why? you don’t explain and the only explanations I find are the one I exposed already (my limitation, sorry). I’m talking from the user point of view. for the manufacturer point of view please check the post by caesantos on 10 October 2013 at 18:40. If you’re going to upgrade every 2 years what difference makes how many iterations did you miss? 1? 2? 0? 15? it shouldn’t… Read more »
I’ll try to explain further… Given: Samsung spends more time supporting & maintaining the most recently available hardware. There are marketing drivers that make it more benefical for Samsung to NOT update a previous iteration of thier phone, in a timely fashion, because the consumer’s desire for the latest version of Android (and all the new features that come along with it) will drive them to purchase the most recent phone if that is the only place they can get it. Look at the S3. If Samsung updated the S3 with the new version of Android, shortly after it was… Read more »
@ RajCaj on 11 October 2013 at 19:17 said: (Can’t reply to your comment)
better hardware, better software. You say that’s different things, I say it’s the same thing, my argument applies to both.
You have an excelent phone hardware with an excelent phone firmware with many, many excelent available phone apps.
you just don’t want anyone else to have a better hard/firm/soft ware then you.
sorry if I didn’t explaind better at first 🙁
Samsung can go f theyr selves My “flagship” S3 LTE (i9305) Launched with 4.1.1 here we are with 4.4 coming out very soon what am i running 4.1.2 The other problem is bloat and stupid partitioning 1gb cache patition sitting there doing squat 560mb hidden patition sitting there empty i have removed a moderate amount of bloat all core samsung functionality is intact on the system partition 605mb free space thats 2.1gb sitting wasted i could have had a 13gb main partition instead of a 10.8gb one and aparently its worse on the s4 the only reason i buy samsung… Read more »
Samsung Glaxy S3 LTE GT-I9305 Release Date, 10 Aug 2012
1 year 4 days old and all we have had is one minor bump
from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2
