Samsung Galaxy S6

Samsung Galaxy S6 Allegedly Pictured; Compared With Galaxy S4, Galaxy S5

Samsung's Galaxy  S6 smartphone, expected to launch early next year, has been leaked on multiple occasions so far, and this time around - the anticipated flagship has been spotted in images and compared with the Samsung Galaxy S4 and Samsung Galaxy S5.

The new leaked images show the yet-to-be-announced Galaxy S6 sporting a metal build and a working display featuring an Android 5.0 Lollipop-styled lock screen. The front of the Galaxy S6 is seen with sleek bezels on the sides and even the frames appear to be made of metal. There is a Samsung logo branding above the display in the front panel while rear also houses one just below the primary camera. The rear panel may also feature a metallic finish, though the leaked images are of low-resolution and appear to have slightly distorted colours.

Another image shows the Galaxy S6 in a side-by-side comparison with its predecessors - the Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S5. The alleged wider Galaxy S6 seems to feature a bigger display, and is slightly taller than both the Galaxy S5 (which sports a 5.1-inch display) and Galaxy S4 (features 5-inch display).

On Monday, a report claimed that the Galaxy S6 was shipped to India this month for testing purposes and the smartphone featured a 5.5-inch display.

The purported images of the alleged Galaxy S6 have been posted by an Iranian blogToranji (first picked by Phone Arena).

To refresh, the Samsung Galaxy S6 is rumoured to feature a 64-bit octa-core Exynos 7420 processor alongside Mali-T760 GPU and 3GB of RAM. Earlier this month, a possible variant of Samsung's Galaxy S6 was spotted on the AnTuTu benchmark sitetipping some specifications.

Prior to this, a report citing an analyst claimed that Samsung's Galaxy S6 flagship will debut early next year at CES - and not MWC as expected previously.

We have already heard that the Samsung Galaxy S5 successor is codenamed Project Zero, and is reportedly being built from scratch.

HTC Teases Launch of New Desire Series Smartphones at CES 2015

HTC has started sending invites for a CES press event on January 5 in Las Vegas, where it is now expected to unveil new Desire series smartphones, and not the rumored HTC One (M9) a.k.a HTC Hima.

The company posted the CES 2015 invitation poster image on its official Weibo account (via upleaks) that reads, "2015.1.6 CES Always Desire more", hinting towards Desire series devices to be announced at this event. The invite notably mentions two dates, though they are thought to be pointing to the same event occurring in different time zones (in Las Vegas and Taiwan).

Notably, a recent report had tipped HTC to launch the One (M9) or HTC Hima smartphone at CES 2015, though the latest official social media post seems to contradict this. The same source had also pointed to the purported specifications of the smartphone on AnTuTu benchmarks.

Last week though, HTC was tipped to launch the Hima aka One (M9) in March, alongside the anticipated Sense 7 UI on Android 5.0 Lollipop. This time period fits with HTC's regular flagship refresh cycle, with the Taiwanese firm launching its flagship smartphones in the month of March for the past two years.

While at this point of time it's not known that what devices the Taiwanese giant will introduce at CES, it was only last week when @upleaks had tipped the specifications of a mid-range smartphone, dubbed the HTC A12, which will feature a 64-bit processor.

The alleged HTC A12 is said to include a 4.7-inch (720x1280 pixels) display; a 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 MSM8916 quad-core chipset clocked at 1.2GHz; 1GB of RAM; 8-megapixel rear camera; a 1.3-megapixel front camera; dimensions of 139.8x69.5x9.5mm; a 2100mAh battery, and Android 4.4 with HTC Sense UI.

(Also see: HTC Sense 7 UI With Android 5.0 Tipped to Launch With HTC Hima in March)

Last week, HTC's North Asia President, Jack Tong, had said the firm would be expanding its 4G entry-level smartphone portfolio in the first quarter. The DigiTimes report citing Jack Tong had noted that HTC will stress on promotion of affordable HTC handsets over the Internet, similar to Xiaomi.

The report had added that Tong also expects that HTC handset shipments will grow by a double-digit rate next year.