Samsung's most anticipated smartphone of the era is here, late yesterday night, the company went officially introducing their 2014 flagship handset and their Galaxy S fleet front runner at their Mobile World Congress 'Unpacked 5' Press event in Barcelona, Spain.
The new Android powered smartphone from the big South Korean multinational manufacturer will feature the faux leather feel on it's back, as saw from the company's 2013 phablet flagship, Galaxy Note 3, but this time with an entirely different texture and great new look. The new Samsung Galaxy S5 has also got the IP67-certifications out of it's box, making the whole unit dust and water resistant up to one meter and 30 minutes.
As heard from the previous leaked reports, the new phone also trait a fingerprint scanner on the smartphone's physical home button, alongside a heart rate monitor over the hood, placed aside it's LED flash light. The Koreans have also updated their new phone, replacing the capacitive options button with a recent apps or a application switcher key on the below left side.
The newly announced Galaxy S5 will sport a Quad-Core Qualcomm MSM8974-AC Snapdragon
The flagship Samsung Galaxy S5 will come in Black, White, Blue and Gold color options, measured at 142 x 72.5 x 8.1 millimeters in dimensions and weighs 145 grams on mass. The unit's will ship by mid-April internationally, where AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile will offer the phone for the Stateside first.
Update: The new Samsung Galaxy S5 will feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor, instead of a earlier heard 800 option, with Krait 400 cores, Adreno 330 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and Hexagon QDSP6 for ultra low power applications. The company will also ship their new flagships powered by Octa-Core chipset, clocked at 2.1GHz.