Samsung Galaxy S5 Prime Spotted With Metal Body in Alleged Leaked Image

Samsung might be tightlipped about the launch of the premium variant of its Galaxy S5, however multiple recent leaks have pointed to its probable existence. Now, an alleged Galaxy F press render is doing the rounds of the web.

Serial tipster, @evleaks has posted a press render that is said to show the alleged Galaxy S5 'Prime' aka Galaxy F. @evleaks said in a tweet, "Another alleged image of the supposed Samsung Galaxy F."

As per the alleged Galaxy F press render, the smartphone appears to sport a similar design to the Galaxy S5, though it has an aluminium chassis with a brushed metal finish instead of the chrome plastic body with the perforated finish, in-line with earlier reports. The rear seems to be housing the camera along with the heart rate sensor. The leaked render does not tip any new detail about the unannounced Galaxy F smartphone.

Notably, the South Korean giant had been previously rumoured to be working on the alleged Samsung Galaxy F, which would sport a metal body and was said to launch in 2014 after the release of the Galaxy S5 (Review | Pictures).

Earlier reports have tipped that the alleged premium-variant of the Galaxy S5 would sport a Quad-HD display and the rear camera would come with OIS (optical image stabilisation), a feature that is missing in the Samsung Galaxy S5. Earlier rumours had indicated that the alleged Galaxy S5 Prime would be launched in mid-June.

A recent leak suggested that the Galaxy S5 'Prime' has been codenamed 'Project KQ', following the Project K codename used for the already-released Galaxy S5. The report also indicated that Samsung would be ditching Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipsets on the KQ premium variant, and would instead use an Intel processor for one of the two variants, while the other is said to sport an Exynos chipset.

Rumoured specifications claim that the alleged Galaxy S5 Prime will come with the octa-core Exynos 5430; Samsung is expected to opt for a 2.1GHz and 1.5GHz clocking speed on the ARM Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7 cores respectively, and boast of a small boost in CPU power compared to previous iterations.

An earlier report had even claimed that a Galaxy S5 variant featuring QHD display had entered mass production.