Samsung admits bug in Galaxy S5

Samsung has admitted a bug in its newly launched Galaxy S5 phone is causing the handset's camera to die, the Daily Mail reported.

The Korean giant said the number of its flagship Galaxy S5 smartphones shipped with non-working cameras was 'very limited' and that it has taken measures to ensure the issue does not recur in new shipments.

However, operator Verizon was forced to take to Twitter to make customers aware of the flaw, which renders the camera useless.

Reports of the problem surfaced last week and come less than a month after the phone's global launch, with Samsung banking on the S5 to outdo its predecessor and rebuild momentum for the brand in an increasingly competitive market.

The South Korean firm has warned profits are likely to have fallen in January-March from a year earlier, its second straight quarter of decline.

“We have discovered that the issue has been seen in a very limited portion of early production Galaxy S5 units, and was caused by complications in the ROM (Read Only Memory) component which stores the information necessary to operate the camera,” Samsung said in an e-mailed statement.


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