Ecuador: Telefònica Movistar says: Samsung confirms the imminent arrival of GALAXY S5. UNPACKED event Feb 23.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.

Companies look to the fullest and have everything they have prepared for the new year at CES. Yes, the companies involved in the mobile industry details on smartphones and tablets for the Mobile World Congress event this year will take place from 24 to 27 February in Barcelona as always.  

Samsung, for example, has just confirmed that the new GALAXY S5 will hit the market between March or April, but has not given many details. In an interview with Bloomberg, Young Hee Lee, executive vice president of Samsung, confirmed the imminent arrival of the new device. 

As far as rumored new mobile will have a new design and will have an iris reader, this to counter Apple Touch ID technology, and certainly not to be embroiled in more legal scandals patents. 

As for specs quad core processor is not known whether it will be Exynos or Snapdragon, or even both as with the S4 is handled. You may have 4GB of RAM, 16MPX camera and a 4000mAh battery. 

One detail that Lee left to know is that the mobile will not be presented during the MWC, but obviously know much more about this smartphone in this event. The official presentation will be made in the event that the typical Samsung prepares each year for the occasion. 

However, according to Mobile Review’s Eldar Murtazin we will see Sammy’s new flagship Galaxy S5 handset unveiled at 6pm in Barcelona   at its Samsung Unpacked 2014 event at Mobile World Congress on 23 February. He also claims we can expect the same price as the S4 which was £630 (U$1.035.- off contract) at launch. We doubt the device part is true, although the event time and date sound correct.

The new UI appears to take the best bits from every OS so far to create an at-a-glance feed of everything happening in the user’s world. It seems to do the same as Windows Phone does in using Tiles to offer instant information from different apps. Even a message from a friend is displayed as a full tile with her photo and a snippet of the text.

Real world information is also updated with your team’s result, your flight times, map routes, run times and even spending.

Note: The image corresponds to a concept, but not the actual product.

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Samsung Windows Phone 9 might come next. Microsoft willing to pay $1B incentive. OS no fees maybe.

Samsung Windows Phone 9 might come next.  Microsoft willing to pay $1B incentive.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.

Russian blogger Eldar Murtazin has revealed an  interesting note about Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone plans:apparently the Redmond-based giant plans to pay an astounding $1 billion “bribe” to another tech behemoth to ensure that it continues making Windows Phone handsets. 

“Another ‘good’ news from Microsoft,” Murtazin wrote on Twitter. “Company negotiates with Samsung and offer $1 billion support if vendor will produce Windows Phone devices.”

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While this is just a rumor at this point, it wouldn’t be the first time Microsoft puts its cash reserves behind the development of Windows Phone.

 Microsoft  paid Nokia $250 million per quarter to adopt Windows Phone, even though the Finnish company “returned” the favor with Windows Phone licensing fees – in March 2013, Nokia revealed that it still had to pay around $650 in licensing fees from that point until the contract expired, at which point licensing fees would surpass Microsoft’s “platform support payments.”

Microsoft did not stop with its Windows Phone spending spree there, deciding to buy the mobile division of Nokia for over $7 billion, a purchase that has received the go ahead from shareholders and industry regulators. Also worth noting is that Microsoft incentivized developers with serious cash to bring their apps to the Windows Phone ecosystem.

As for Samsung, the South Korean company is currently king of the mobile business when it comes to market share, while dividing mobile profits with Apple, although the latter gets the larger chunk of cash each quarter. In addition to its Android and Tizen interests, Samsung already makes Windows Phones handsets and Windows 8 computers.

The company has been known to avoid placing its eggs in one basket when it comes to its mobile business and flooding the market with handsets to match every taste and pocket, so making Windows Phone smartphones may still be in the cards for Samsung for the near future, regardless of whether Murtazin’s rumor is correct or not.

One thing that Microsoft is also said to be considering is dropping licensing fees for Windows Phone, which could also be a good enough incentive for interested OEMs to make more Windows Phone devices.

BGR

Breaking News: Samsung Galaxy S3, 10 million units already pre-ordered by operators/retailers.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.

Eldar Murtazin well known on the tech world as one of best tipster on twitter ,has twitted today that operators and retailers worldwide have already pre-ordered 10 million units of the New  Samsung Galaxy S3 for the first month. That is a record. It means operators and retailers already have final devices of the SGS3, that will be unveiled today May 3, in 12 hours and 42 minutes. (7pm, BST, See our countdown time clock on the top of our blog)

Also he said Samsung is going to launch own Cloud services and will be available to all phones.

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