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Could Samsung Galaxy S5 be launched this month?

Samsung could reveal its latest smartphone – the Galaxy S5 – sooner than expected, after the company sent out invitations to an event and urged potential attendees to "mark the date".

The Korean smartphone giant sent out the invitations to "Samsung Unpacked 5" at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on 24 February.

Samsung is known for unveiling major products at the Unpacked events and the company hints that this event will be no different.

"Mark the date and come visit us to see the unpacking of The Next Big Thing (even the Samsung Tomorrow team doesn't know yet)," the company wrote on an official blog post on Tuesday.

Invitation to the Unpacked eventSamsung

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Rumors about Samsung's next mobile offering have been swirling for months. In November, reports suggested the world's biggest smartphone maker was planning to launch a three-sided handset with a screen that wraps around the device's edges.

If the S5 is released at the MWC, this would mark an earlier than expected launch of the product, which was tipped to be released at some point in March. This could be in part driven by which showed the company's slowest profit growth since 2011.

Analysts said the timing is not important, as the company makes several announcements a year, but the fact that the S5 launch could come at the MWC is significant.

"Samsung is now such a significant company and if they make an announcement at the Mobile World Congress, they will make the headlines and the advantage is clearly everyone is there, from customers to networks," Ian Fogg, head of mobile analysis at IHS Electronics and Media, told CNBC.

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