What is already known about the Samsung Galaxy S5 - Europe1

By Johann Duriez-Update

Published January 13, 2014 at 11:21 Updated January 13, 2014 at 11:25 am

iris scanner, new design and release date: Korean giant has drawn the outlines of the next featured smartphone

. INFO. After a Galaxy S4 bigger but unsurprisingly, Samsung wants to hit hard during the release of his next featured smartphone. The characteristics of future Galaxy S5 were discussed last Thursday during a given to the news channel Bloomberg by a Korean company responsible for interview. Ocular fingerprint sensor, new design, photo sensor revised upwards, Europe1.fr update on everything we already know about the main competitor of the iPhone 5s.

New design seen. In the words of Lee Young Hee, Executive Vice President of Samsung Mobile, the Galaxy will S5 facelift aesthetic. Recall that the Galaxy S4 much like its predecessor (Galaxy S3), whose hull was already in plastic. Lee Young Hee also promised a better screen and “new sensations at the touch and feel.” Should we expect a flexible and curved like the Galaxy Round screen? Impossible to say for now.

Samsung wants you to the eye. Apple took a step ahead of the competition last October with the iPhone 5s, with a fingerprint sensor. This technology allows you to lock and unlock the device more securely registering the Fingerprints of its main user. If its Korean rival had responded a few weeks later, announcing floor on similar technology, another identification system is currently being prepared by Samsung. The world’s number one mobile phone “exploring the possibility” of adding an iris sensor at Galaxy S5. It would be to recognize its owner through its eye footprint, no manufacturer has yet managed to do.

Recall that in 2012, Google tried to add facial recognition to its Android mobile operating system, but the feature has encountered many technical problems: for example, it was possible to unlock a smartphone to Using a simple photo of the holder.

output expected in April . For the rest of the technical characteristics of the S5, the head of Samsung remained elusive. On November 8, the specialized site SamMobile stated that the next smartphone from Korean would have a 16 megapixel camera sensor. Information not confirmed by Lee Young Hee. In contrast, the output of the Galaxy S5 would be expected “around March-April” and would be coupled with the release of a new version of the Korean shows connected, the Galaxy Gear.

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