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Watch the unveiling here Monday, 24th February 2014, 7pm

And then 2 months down the line a different version.
I'm a Samsung person but I'm not happy with the variations they dish out.

I agree with you Mark. I am happy with my S3. My girlfriend has the S4. Its a good phone but not much of a leap from the S3. I expect the S5 wont exactly be a quantum leap ahead either.

I'm hoping it will be great.
I got the note 2 as the S4 was out of stock - big mistake.
Want the S5 to be amazing :-)

All smartphones are virtually identical - minor cosmetic and changes in gimmick based 'apps' and that's it. None of them are smart enough to keep themselves charged for more than a few hours before you are connecting them to a charger again.

They are too big for the pocket, but the screens - big as they are, are too small to watch videos on comfortably and doing this flattens the battery even faster anyway. I found with mine I was missing calls. By the time I had extracted it from my pocket, enabled the touchscreen and selected 'Accept call' the caller had rung off!

I've ditched mine in favour of the simplest, smallest clamshell phone I can find. Speech and texts, and thats IT! It gets charged once every couple of weeks - at MY convenience not that of the phone's - and my life is lot more hassle free as a result. When it rings, I take it from my pocket flip it open and start talking. No stupid touchscreen and no missed calls.

If, on odd occasions, I want a bigger screen for maps or to show someone photos or a video, say, I use a tablet. Horses for courses. A phone is a phone. Why try to cram it with stupid facilities you are rarely if ever going to need or use?

Why buy a bmw when a ford Mondeo will do.

Someone must of not giving him jam in his doughnut

Why have a 42" HD tv when a black and white 14" does the job of displaying broadcast tv?.

To use Excoriator's own words. Horses for courses. I use a mulitude of my smartphones functions every day for work and pleasure. Making calls and texting are not a priority. It suits my needs perfectly. I don't ever wish to go back to my old Nokia 3210 as I suspect the majority of people dont. Thats why I put up with a shorter battery life. I can live with charging it overnight when im asleep anyway.
You could go the whole hog and get one of these

I'm not disputing the popularity of these things with people who prefer gimmickry to convenience. Merely that they are a craze that will pass, if it hasn't passed it's peak already.

Why get a bmw when a ford mondeo will do? Well the reason is that a BMW probably is a better car than a Mondeo. In the case of smartphones they are NOT better for the reasons I've mentioned above. Cramming them with facilities which you rarely if ever use makes it a WORSE phone not a better one. It is a FAR less convenient phone than a cheap clamshell.

I ditched my smartphone because I wanted something BETTER not WORSE.

Certainly charging the damn things twice a day - which is what these flashy devices demand if you use them to any extent - I find is a quite unacceptable level of hassle!