Eldar Murtazin: Galaxy S5 to launch on February 23, at 6PM, in Barcelona

Eldar Murtazin, a well-connected blogger with a relatively good track-record when it comes to s, just tweeted that the Galaxy S5 will launch on February 23, ahd of MWC 2014 Barcelona.

Murtazin claims the Galaxy S5 will be announced on Sunday, February 23, at 6PM, and that it will be in stores by the end of April.

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There’s no way for us to verify Murtazin’s claims, but there is no obvious alarm bell ringing about his prediction either. What’s more, Eldar Murtazin predicted the launch date of the Galaxy S4 almost to the day last yr, which lends his words a lot of credibility.

Rumors that would accelerate the relse of the Galaxy S5 have been surfacing periodically for about half a yr now. On January 2, Korn media reported that a VP stated — off the record — the device would be launched around MWC. did not confirm or deny that report, but on January 9 another executive revled – on the record – that the device will be relsed by the end of April, which suggests it would be introduced in February-March.

While used its standalone Unpacked events to unveil the last two versions of the Galaxy S, it continued to launch its other big flagship, the Note series, ahd of IFA Berlin in September. It’s possible that the Korn giant is adopting the same strategy for the Galaxy S5. MWC 2014 will officially open on Monday, February 24, 2014.

An rlier relse would allow to stl some of the thunder of competitors like , , and , which are all preparing new flagships for the first quarter of the yr.

Murtazin also vaguely “confirms” the specs that have been floating around in connection with the Galaxy S5 (5.25-inch 2K display, S800, 3GB RAM), as well as the launch of a new TouchWiz version. In a different tweet, the Russian blogger claims the software of the S5 will have a different name, but that essentially it will be an evolved TouchWiz.