The Galaxy S5 has been available for months by now; the time since its release has seen the launch of a few additional family members, including the GS5 Active, and just a couple weeks back the GS5 Mini – and this isn’t even touching on the upgraded GS5 LTE-A edition. The GS5 Mini gave us a 4.5-inch phone that seemed pretty fitting for its name, but could we have another shrunken-down GS5 spin-off in our future? We’re left wondering just that tonight, as we check out the benchmarks for a mysterious Samsung model SM-G850.
This is a model number we’ve seen before, surfacing on Samsung’s own site a couple months ago, but we didn’t have much to go on at the time. This benchmark data fills in a lot of that missing detail, describing the phone as having a 4.7-inch 720p display, Exynos 5 Octa SoC, 2GB of RAM, and an apparent 32GB of flash storage. That 4.7-inch screen size is reinforced by Indian import listings.
That’s clearly not the GS5 Mini, nor is it the GS5 proper. So what is it, then? While back in May we heard the idea that it could be a GS5 Active of some kind, the prevailing theory at the moment suggests that it might be a Galaxy S5 Neo, instead. Just as we got the Note 3 Neo as a slightly downgraded version of the Note 3 earlier this year, the idea goes that this model G850 could fill the same role for the GS5. It remains to be seen if that identification is correct, but this hardware definitely seems to exist, and it’s just a matter of time before we get to the bottom of its story.
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