Samsung will reportedly announce its next-generation Galaxy S5 smartphone in January – two months sooner than expected – because of poor sales of the Galaxy S4.
Korean news site Naver quoted an unnamed source last Thursday saying that sluggish sales of the Galaxy S4 prompted Samsung to set a mid-January launch of the Galaxy S5, with sales starting in February. The site, which is in Korean, also posted a photo of a purported Galaxy S5. Samsung didn’t comment.
Various reports indicate the new phone will have an octa-core processor running on 64-bit technology, a fingerprint sensor, as well as a metal casing instead of the Galaxy S4’s plastic case – elements similar to the iPhone 5S. A 16MP camera with optical image stabilisation also would be included. Some reports say Samsung could include a curved display in the S5, as per the recently announced Galaxy Round.
Reports surfaced in July that sales of the Galaxy S4 initially were going well, with 20 million units sold in the first two months. But the announcement of the iPhone 5S and 5C on 10 September probably hurt sales of the Galaxy S4. The well-reviewed HTC One also competed with the Galaxy S4. Samsung hasn’t released sales figures for the GS4 as it did with the Galaxy S III.
Some reports have suggested that Samsung released the Galaxy Note 3 phablet earlier than originally planned to take up some of the sales slack of the S4.
IDG News Service
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