Samsung's Galaxy S5 will come with the latest Galaxy Gear smartwatch when it's released in April Bloomberg reported Thursday.
The manufacturer is also looking into using an eye scanner for its devices Bloomberg reported.
"We've been announcing our first flagship model in the first half of each year, around March and April, and we are still targeting for release around that time," Lee Young Hee, executive vice president at Samsung;s mobile business department told Bloomberg. "When we release our S5 device, you can also expect a Gear successor with more advanced functions, and the bulky design will also be improved," Lee told Bloomberg.
Samsung will unveil the new gadgets at the same time it makes a push on promoting its tablet computers as part of efforts to keep ahead of Apple's devices, and companies in China promoting items with $100 price tags Bloomberg reported.
"Many people are fanatical about iris recognition technology," Lee said at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Bloomberg reported. "We are studying the possibility but can't really say whether we will have it or not on the S5."
The Galaxy S5 website called for a January release in October, and a vast selection of colors in black, white, pink, lime, and yellow.
Rumors also called for the new phone to have an adjustable OLED YOUM display screen measuring 5.3 inches, and a leather base rather than metal the website reported.
Samsung will instead use the metal material in their series of Galaxy F series or its line of Android devices the website reported.
"The release of the S5 will be very important to Samsung," Lee Seung Woo, an analyst at IBK Securities Co., told Bloomberg "Competition is going to intensify, and it's not going to be an easy year for the company," Woo told Bloomberg. "When we moved to S4 from S3, it's partly true that consumers couldn't really feel much difference between the two products from the physical perspective, so the market reaction wasn't as big. For the S5, we will go back to the basics. Mostly, it's about the display and the feel of the cover," Woo told Bloomberg.
