Samsung Galaxy S5 specs 'confirmed' - 2,560x1,440 screen and Snapdragon 805 CPU

 

 

 

We've been waiting for almost a year, but now the Samsung Galaxy S5 is almost upon us. We've been following the rumours and leaked information, but now SamMobile claims to have the full run-down on the specs, thanks to a Samsung insider.According to the site, the Samsung Galaxy S5 will come in two different versions: one metal and one plastic. The metal version will be a more expensive, premium version, costing around 800 Euro, while the plastic version will cost around 600 Euro. There's no information on whether or not the metal version will have a different name, such as the rumoured Samsung Galaxy F.

There's no information on how the build quality will differ, except on materials. However, a recent rumours points to the metal version having a metal backplate, sides and front, which would suggest that it will still have a removable back and, therefore, battery.A high-resolution screen will come as no surprise to most people, with the 2,560x1,440 AMOLED display exactly what everyone was expecting Samsung to release. It will be a little larger than the Samsung Galaxy S4, with a 5.25in screen. That's still comfortably smaller than the company's phablet, the 5.7in Samsung Galaxy Note 3.The camera is due an upgrade, from the S4's 13-megapixel sensor, to a brand-new 16-megapixel sensor. There's no information if Samsung intends to go with hardware optical image stabilisation (OIS) or more information on the sensor itself.Inside, the phone will come in two models with different processors, with both Exynos 6 and QualcommSnapdragon 805 CPUs available. This is similar to the Galaxy S4, which had two models: one with a Samsung Exynos 5 chip and one with a Qualcomm chip. In the case of the S4, the Samsung chip used ARM's big.LITTLE technology (four low-powered cores for saving power and four full-power cores when more intensive tasks run), but didn't support LTE. For LTE countries, then, the Qualcomm version was sold.With the Galaxy S5, the Samsung Exynos 6 chip (also big.LITTLE) now supports LTE, so the division of models isn't quite as clear. However, the big difference is that the Exynos 6 is 64-bit. Given all of this information, it could be that the premium metal version ships with Exynos, while the plastic version ships with Qualcomm. Unfortunately, we're going to have to wait a bit to find out the exact details.RAM, storage and the other specs haven't been confirmed yet, but this is certainly enough infofmation to whet our appetites.