No physical buttons on Samsung Galaxy S5? - Android World

Patent

patent application dates back to 2012, but yesterday received approval from the Samsung USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) for the design. On the sketch is seen that there is at the front of the device does not have physical buttons to be found. Rumors suggest that the design of the Samsung Galaxy S5 would be forthcoming. To the images shown, this smartphone in our eyes indeed form a Galaxy phone.

Caved?

A smartphone without a Home button, nothing new for a smartphone, you might say. But for this Samsung surely a ‘big deal’. Especially given the endless battle that the company carried out in recent years with Apple over the design of the Galaxy phones, which appears on the design of the iPhone too much. In these patents war include the Home button was a priority where Samsung stubbornly clung to. If the South Korean giant still succumbed to the pressure of Apple

What else ..

What is also striking is the rectangular outline of the cutter on the back of the unit, top right. It is not inconceivable that there fingerprint scanner which is expected to come on this unit. If you look closely you can see also run a number of segments of the rectangle that a partial fingerprint could imagine. But maybe we’re looking too much into this.

Availability

If our sources are correct, the Samsung Galaxy S5 on February 23, will be announced at the MWC 2014 Barelona. The unit would have to come on the market. Late April Or that the front will be with or without Home button remains to be seen. It is of course possible that this design is intended for a device other than the Galaxy S5.

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Tom Enthoven

Android fan from the minute that its first Android phone in January 2010 came over from America: the Google Nexus One. Since then followed different Android phones, tablets and mini-PCs. Likes to play with different ROMs on its appliances and is not a fan of the “shells” that manufacturers draping over the Android OS.