Samsung Galaxy S5 Release Date Announced

Samsung appears to have announced the Galaxy S5 release date and it’s slated for February 24 in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress. The event is called Unpacked⁵ with the superscript “5” almost certainly referring to the Galaxy S5.  Unpacked⁵ will kick off at 8 p.m. local time and will be livestreamed via YouTube, so if you’re looking to tune in on the West Coast, that means 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. if you’re on the East Coast. 

Rumors of a Galaxy S5 unveiling at this year’s MWC have long circulated the interwebs and the February 24 release date makes sense since it’s about a year after Samsung rolled out the Galaxy S4. The full name of the event is Unpacked⁵ Samsung Unpacked 2014 Episode 1, which is also fairly similar to the naming conventions at last year’s Galaxy S4 launch.

To be clear, Samsung’s invitation to the Unpacked event offers no image of the Galaxy S5 or any spec details on the new flagship smartphone, but there’s no shortage of rumors and speculation going around and it’s also beyond likely that specs sheets and device photos will begin leaking in greater frequency as we approach the February 24 release date.

Most recently, it’s been speculated that the Samsung Galaxy S5 will ship in two flavors: one will be a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon packing 2GB RAM, while the second variant will be an eight-core home cooked Exynos 5430 with 3GB RAM. It’s also likely that the Galaxy S5 will boast some form of biometric security, be it a fingerprint scanner similar to the one on Apple’s iPhone 5S or an iris scanner to better leverage Samsung’s eye-tracking technology.

We don’t have much to go on in terms of feature set or pricing yet, but it’s likely that Samsung will keep the Galaxy S5 in line with the S4 cost-wise. The phone itself may be an incremental upgrade or something entirely new: there’s evidence to support both arguments.