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hey everyone welcome to the inside scoop I'm cnet's carboy joined by cnet senior editor Jessica dual court we are talking about the Mobile World Congress coming up in Barcelona and everyone is expecting a big announcement from Samsung that they're going to release the galaxy s5 absolutely we already pretty much know that's going to happen and that is basically the highlight of the show at this point what is one thing that you would really like to see out of this new iteration of the galaxy I'd like to see a really dramatic design change we've had a lot of the same Universal looking rounded corner very plasticky look and feel Samsung's try to increase the premium feel of that a little bit by adding a little silver around the ridge but what I want to see is something really beautiful and finely crafted more along the lines of what you get with the HTC One or even the iPhone 5s I'd also love to see personally the power button removed from the side to the top it's such a small thing but I carry these things around all the time and my purse most lean even with a dedicated purse pocket the thing turns itself on all the time so either let's stiffen up that button or let's just move it to the top yeah okay so besides like a hardware overhaul what else what about the guts of the phone what do you need to see performance wise well we're definitely going to see a step up in specs so it's going to have a very fast we're expecting quad-core processor something along the lines of the 16 megapixel camera a very good front facing camera as far as these things go so what we're expecting is the screen is going to be something called 2k you can think of it as ultra HD so the pixels are just going to be crammed right in there it will be absolutely gorgeous as first the size goes you know probably about the 5 inch mark could be a little bit bigger but they don't want to encroach on the galaxy note territory by making it too big and what about fingerprint scanners a lot of new phones have them do you think Samsung will hop on board that's definitely the rumor and I would expect it especially because Apple has that with the iphone 5s there are a couple different implementations we've seen scanners on the back of the phone before and that's been around for several years but not really implemented well the problem is in order for it to be useful it really needs to work correctly all the time it needs to be easy to find it needs to be accurate to use so Apple kind of has a lock on putting the fingerprint scanner on the home button not really sure if Samsung is going to attempt to do that maybe encounter some legal battles along the way or we could see it on the back like you get with something like the HTC One max the s4 is a very popular phone all these rumors that you're hearing about the s5 does it add up enough to be competitive in that high-end space with whether it is the iphone or other androids on the market absolutely I think Samsung excels at checking off all of the boxes that need to be done so usually i think that the specs are very very good what I think the phone sometimes has lacked in the past is a little bit of soul or sex aphelion yeah exactly but the Samsung is just an absolute advertising juggernaut they pummel everybody else around the world so I think that the phone will sell it has to sell as long as there's nothing wrong with it it will sell and there will be nothing really wrong with it now is it going to be a beautiful amazing device I sure hope so but that's something that we've got to see when it actually comes out galaxy s5 any thoughts on it having a curved screen I know we sort of seen that emerging out there in the smartphone market right I don't think we're going to see anything deeply curved like we did on the samsung galaxy round which is Korea only or on the LG G flex which is available in the u.s. so I think it's possible that the actual glass or screen on top could have a slight curve to it like we've seen in the past I'm not entirely certain that the OLED display underneath is going to be curbed so I don't think we're going to see that really deep arch so the s5 announcement is what you think will be the highlight of the Mobile World Congress but what else are we going to see from the show now one other thing that we're going to be paying a lot of attention to so actually phones for emerging markets because this is where the battle is really going to be fought in 2014 we've got players like Lenovo that bought up us Motorola and some others as well you've got nokia shifting under microsoft so i think the question is going to be now that you know a lot of developed nations are really saturated when it comes to smartphones that's people mostly replacing what they already have the next phase is getting the hearts and minds of people who are moving from their first smartphone or maybe moving from an entry-level smartphone into sort of the next model so for these companies they're going to be targeting these markets so lots of keep our eyes out for the stands to announcement and then all these other trends and mobile that you mentioned thank you so much Jessica Doyle court on cars too boy thanks for watching the inside scoop