adminMADRID. — Samsung aims to take the mobile world by storm Monday, almost certainly unveiling a new Galaxy S5 smart-phone with rumoured Apple-fighting features such as a fingerprint scanner and larger screen.
The top smart-phone maker coyly announced to journalists an “Unpacked 5” event for the opening day of the February 24-27 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
“We are holding a global launch event of our new flagship product in 2014,” its invitation said, using a well-worn technique of not naming the smart-phone so as to build anticipation.
The new device will be at the vanguard of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s defence of its number-one position.
The South Korean group sold 300 million smart-phones last year, 31 percent of the nearly one billion sold globally and double arch-rival Apple Inc’s 15,6-percent share, according to US technology research house Gartner Inc.
The Galaxy S5 is variously rumoured to have a fingerprint scanner on the home button; a 5,24-inch, full high-definition display; a water and dust-proof case and a 16 mega-pixel camera.
At the same time, the industry anticipates that Samsung will reveal the latest, possibly thinner, version of its smart-watch, the Galaxy Gear 2, after the first version failed to win over many critics.
It will be one of an array of new “smart devices” to launch at the show, analysts predict. —AFP.
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