Last year Samsung gave us a glimpse of what a premium looking phone could be with their Galaxy A line up, the A3, A5 and A7
All with the beautiful and stylish look we wanted to our Galaxy S5, on a smaller form factor, price and specs.
This year though they decided to join the “budget club” delivering some really good phone with a good price, with that in mind they recently launched an updated and upgraded version on the “A” series with the Galaxy A3, A5 and A7 of 2016
Unlike they predecessors, these variants follow the design language of the Galaxy S6 with a metal and glass construction.
These devices were set to launch in China this month but now we know they’re coming to our shores as soon as January 8th
But let’s take a look under the hood of the new Galaxy A line
Galaxy A3 (2016)
- Network: LTE Cat.4 * May differ by markets and mobile operators
- Display: 4.7-inch HD (1280×720) Super AMOLED
- Core: 1.5 GHz Quad Core
- OS: Android 5.1 (Lollipop)
- Camera: Rear : 13MP (F1.9), Front : 5MP (F1.9)
- Video:MP4,M4V,3GP,3G2,WMV,ASF,AVI,FLV,MKV,WEBM
- Additional features: Samsung KNOX, S-Voice, Dual SIM option
- Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth® v 4.1, ANT+, USB 2.0, NFC (UICC)
- Sensor: Accelerometer, Proximity, Geomagnetic, RGB Light, Hall
- Memory: 1.5GB RAM + 16GB Storage with Micro SD slot (up to 128GB)
- Dimension: 134.5 x 65.2 x 7.3mm, 132g
- Battery: 2,300mAh
Galaxy A5 (2016)
- Network: LTE Cat.6 * May differ by markets and mobile operators
- Display: 5.2-inchFHD (1920×1080) Super AMOLED
- Core: 1.6GHz Octa Core
- OS: Android 5.1 (Lollipop)
- Camera: Rear : 13MP (F1.9), Front : 5MP (F1.9)
- Video:MP4,M4V,3GP,3G2,WMV,ASF,AVI,FLV,MKV,WEBM
- Additional features: MST technology(Samsung Pay), Samsung KNOX, S-Voice, Dual SIM option
- Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth® v 4.1, ANT+, USB 2.0, NFC (UICC)
- Sensor: Accelerometer, Proximity, Geomagnetic, RGB Light, Hall Fingerprint scanner
- Memory: 2GB RAM + 16GB Storage with Micro SD slot (up to 128GB)
- Dimension: 144.8 x 71.0 x 7.3mm , 155g
- Battery: 2,900mAh, Fast Charging
Galaxy A7 (2016)
- Network: LTE Cat.6 * May differ by markets and mobile operators
- Display: 5.5-inch FHD (1920×1080) Super AMOLED
- Core: 1.6GHz Octa Core
- OS: Android 5.1 (Lollipop)
- Camera: Rear : 13MP (F1.9), Front : 5MP (F1.9)
- Video:MP4,M4V,3GP,3G2,WMV,ASF,AVI,FLV,MKV,WEBM
- Additional features: MST technology(Samsung Pay), Samsung KNOX, S-Voice, Dual SIM option
- Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth® v 4.1, ANT+, USB 2.0, NFC (UICC)
- Sensor: Accelerometer, Proximity, Geomagnetic, RGB Light, Hall Fingerprint scanner
- Memory: 3GB RAM + 16GB Storage with Micro SD slot (up to 128GB)
- Dimension: 151.5 x 74.1 x 7.3mm, 172g
- Battery: 3,300mAh, Fast Charging
As you can see the A5 and A7 are the Big brothers packing even a Fingerprint reader while the A3 is what’s now consider “the compact version” allowing you to have almost everything you could ask in conservative color options like Black, White and Rose Gold.
These 2016 A series has as you could see a significant downside, they come with Android 5.1 instead of coming directly with 6.0 but this probably change really soon.
Now what really matters is the performance and that is something that we’ll see when they get here. The new Galaxy A line up is schedule to release on January, although we only have the price of two of these devices: