UPDATED 07:15 EDT / FEBRUARY 12 2015

Report: Samsung Galaxy S6 to have 3-sided screen and ‘the future of cameras’

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When Samsung Electronics Co. unveils its next-generation Galaxy S6 at Mobile World Congress (MWC) next month, there could be two versions of it. One of which will boast a three-sided display that curves to cover both the left and right side of the device.

Anonymous sources revealed to Bloomberg that both phones will sport all-metal bodies and use Samsung’s own processor chips.  While both phones will feature 5.1-inch screens, one version will have the usual front-facing display, and the other will have a curved display similar to that on the Galaxy Note Edge, but it will wrap-around on both the left and right side of the phone to offer a three-sided screen.

The flagship Galaxy S6 needs to perform well for Samsung after the company reported a decline of 64 percent in earnings from smartphones and other mobile devices for the quarter ended December 31. Samsung is also facing increasing competition from Apple Inc.’s iPhone. Although both Samsung and Apple shipped an estimated 74.5 million devices in the last quarter of 2014, Samsung’s market share has decreased from 30 percent in 2013 to 20 percent at the end of 2014.

“Samsung need a model with new technology to stop the iPhone juggernaut and to distinguish it from others,” Lee Sang Hun, a Seoul-based analyst at HI Investment & Securities Co. told Bloomberg “Although Samsung is continuing to release cheaper models globally to defend its market share, the next S phone is more important because that’s where they make money.”

Last week Samsung sent out event invitations to the March 1 “What’s Next” event to be held at MWC to launch the next Galaxy; the invitations hinted at a curved screen. Around the same time, a report from Business Insider suggested that the new Galaxy may boast an all-metal body.

Samsung is also promising to deliver “the future of cameras” in the next iteration of its flagship Galaxy. In a blog post published yesterday on Samsung Tomorrow, Samsung’s official Blog, the company promises the camera in its 2015 Galaxy S6 “will be intelligent and do all the thinking for users, allowing them to take amazing pictures under any conditions, without having to worry about anything more than just pressing the shutter button.”

Apart from a rumored 20-megapixel and 5-megapixel rear and front camera, we know very little about what Samsung has in store for the Galaxy S6’s camera.

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