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Is this a leak of the Samsung Galaxy S5 Google Play Edition?

posted by Victor H. / Jun 25, 2014, 2:50 PM

Spot what looks like the Galaxy S5 in the upper right corner and close to the middle

Google has made its new Android ‘L’ release official, but we are yet to hear what the full name and number of this next version will be when it ships this fall. While Google has not unveiled the full veil of mystery from this ‘L’ release, it might have actually spilled the beans a little too early for something else - something that could be the Samsung Galaxy S5 Google Play Edition.

On the official Android website, you can see a device that looks much like the Galaxy S5, but instead of running the Samsung TouchWiz custom user interface, it comes with what looks like Android 4.4 KitKat. Strangely enough, it’s not running on the ‘L’ release - you can tell this easily, just look at the old navigation buttons that it features rather than the new triangle-circle-square setup.

On our part, we'd certainly love to see the Samsung Galaxy S5, one of the most popular smartphones nowadays, run on stock Android. What about you?

Update: As some of you rightfully noticed, the combination of hardware buttons AND virtual, on-screen keys is absurd, so this might as well be a screw-up by Google. Or could we really see a new S5 GPE with both on-screen and physical keys?

Xie xie, Jun Jie!

source: Android

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15 Comments

1. ThePython

Posts: 902; Member since: May 08, 2013

Cool montage with all GPE phones.

posted on Jun 25, 2014, 2:52 PM 0

2. galanoth

Posts: 428; Member since: Nov 26, 2011

Hardware buttons and a Nav bar?!

posted on Jun 25, 2014, 2:54 PM 3

4. Luuthian

Posts: 332; Member since: Sep 09, 2011

Was thinking the same thing. Maybe it's just an unfortunate Photoshop?

posted on Jun 25, 2014, 3:09 PM 1

12. apple4never

Posts: 1064; Member since: May 08, 2013

i was hoping it was a mistake, they should just leave the home button and capacitive keys, screw the on screen keys

posted on Jun 25, 2014, 6:10 PM 0

3. Canaan

Posts: 351; Member since: May 25, 2014

Will the carriers offer these Google Play editions?

posted on Jun 25, 2014, 3:09 PM 0

7. av911

Posts: 206; Member since: Nov 19, 2012

Then, it wouldn't be called "Google Play edition".

posted on Jun 25, 2014, 3:15 PM 1

8. Canaan

Then I'll wait for the Nexus 6 (hoping it doesn't come with 5.5 inch screen), I'm not paying $699 upfront for a GPE phone.

posted on Jun 25, 2014, 3:19 PM 0

13. apple4never

then buy a nexus 5

posted on Jun 25, 2014, 6:11 PM 0

14. Canaan

I currently have a Nexus 4 and plan to upgrade in the fall; I would like to have a phone with the most up to date hardware. I'm not sure if I'd like android phones from Samsung, LG, Sony or HTC as they take a long time to update their software (for non-GPE phones). For that reason I like the Nexus line, but I don't like phablets which is what the Nexus 6 is rumored to be. I'll probably end up getting an IPhone 6 or Microsoft Lumia McLaren if I can't find an android phone that I like.