Days pass and rumors accumulate on the account next flagship smartphone from Samsung. What are its characteristics? Will there be an iris scanner? Here we now evokes improved Air View feature, already present on the S4. A passive stylus is also on the agenda.

concept-galaxy-s5-111002

This is a South Korean news portal, ETNews, who reported that the first Synaptics, one of the largest companies in the interface solutions, Samsung could provide a more advanced controller buttons. ETNews is based on sources from the world of industry. As a reminder, Synaptics is the company that allowed the Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 3 to have a system for the recognition of gestures. S4 had been especially honored the Air View gestures that allowed to make a call or play a song by the gesture of the hand above the screen.

improvement device on the Galaxy S5 bring a better range and accuracy than those obtained on the S4. Another rumor, the emergence of a passive stylus, ie a stylus without battery, solely dedicated to the extension of the finger. Its use is already possible on smartphones even devoid of S Pen, but the idea would be, in the S5, to improve the accuracy of recognition.

screen size increases, the concepts of drawing and note taking are indeed more sense on smartphones, especially as the size of the Galaxy S5 certainly exceed that of the Galaxy S4 ( Screen nearly 5 inches diagonally). The accuracy should be set for the year 2014, in parallel, should see biometric sensors take off. If 2013 saw a proliferation of fingerprint sensors, especially in the iPhone 5S and HTC Max One, the rumor about the presence of an iris scan on the Galaxy S5 is persistent. We should know more soon, a brand manager who suggested that the S5 would be launched in April, a year after its predecessor.