While Samsung is just about ready to roll out its Galaxy S IV event tonight in New York City, photos and video footage of the highly anticipated device have inevitably found their way on the web beforehand.

One of the early leaks actually came from Samsung itself, as the tech company took to Twitter to post one of the pictures three days prior to the official reveal of the Galaxy S IV.

The extremely dark photo, which was put up on the social networking site on March 11, and had the following message written beneath it:

"The countdown for #The NextBigThing has begun. Who's ready for the Global Unpacked Event on March 14?"

Huffington Post reported that the respective info had initially led most experts to jump to conclusions that the model shown was indeed the Galaxy S IV, though there isn't any clear-cut proof that it wasn't just the current Galaxy S III smartphone.

In terms of the GS IV features, Samsung is expected to equip it with a larger 4.99-inch display, faster 1.8 GHz quad-core processor and a perk that allows its users to scroll through webpages by just simply using his or her eyes.

The GS IV will also reportedly possess 2GB RAM and Android Jelly Bean 4.2 along with Samsung's Touch Wiz software.

The rear camera on the future Samsung device is said to have received an upgrade to 13 megapixels from 8 megapixels.

Design-wise, the smartphone is slated to appear strikingly similar to that of the Galaxy S III.

Samsung's Galaxy S IV is set to be unveiled at Samsung Unpacked at 7pm EST on March 14 at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

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