Samsung confirms that Galaxy S10 will not be the first device to support 5G

Putting rumours to rest, Samsung Electronics has confirmed its upcoming **Galaxy S10 smartphone** will not be the company’s first 5G device. According to DJ Koh, President and CEO of IT & Mobile Samsung Electronics, the smartphone maker was ‘focussing on developing innovations that will be genuinely accepted and liked by users,’ for the **foldable phone** but also that the company ‘didn’t want to lose the world’s first title’. [caption id=“attachment_4932671” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”]  Samsung’s chief DJ Koh with the newly launched Galaxy Note 9.[/caption] “Samsung has reaffirmed its desire to be the world’s first vendor to launch a foldable smartphone while adding that the Galaxy S10 won’t be the firm’s first 5G phone and that a separate model will,” ZDNet reported late on Monday. Koh, however, did not clarify whether this separate smartphone would be the long-awaited foldable smartphone or some other device altogether. “We wouldn’t have started (project) if it was a going to be a one-time thing,” Koh was quoted as saying. The smartphone maker also rubbished rumours that it was contemplating to club the Galaxy S series and Galaxy Note series. “For the immediate future, there won’t be a change in launching the S series in the first half and Note series in the second half of the year,” Koh added.