Samsung has official announced the Galaxy A7, the company’s latest smartphone in the A series with a metal unibody design and 6.3mm thickness. It has a 5.5-inch Full HD Super AMOLED display. It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 SoC in the dual SIM variant and the single SIM LTE variant is powered by s Exynos 5430 SoC. Even the dual SIM Snapdragon variant comes with LTE support depending on the market. It runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Samsung’s own UI on top.
Samsung Galaxy A7 specifications
- 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Full HD Super AMOLED display
- LTE (Single SIM): Exynos 5430 Octa-Core (1.8GHz Quad A15 + 1.3 GHz Quad A7 ) with Mali T628 MP6 GPU
- LTE/3G (Dual SIM) : Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 Octa-Core (1.5GHz Quad A53 + 1.0 GHz Quad A53 ) with Adreno 405 GPU
- 2GB RAM, 16GB internal memory, expandable up to 64GB with microSD
- Android 4.4 (KitKat)
- 13MP rear camera with LED flash
- 5MP front-facing camera
- Dimensions: 151 x 76.2 x 6.3mm; Weight: 141 grams
- 4G LTE / 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, A-GPS/ GLONASS, NFC (LTE version only)
- 2600mAh battery
The Samsung Galaxy A7 comes in Pearl White, Midnight Black and Champagne Gold colors and is priced at 509 Euros (US$ 600 / Rs. 37,500 approx). It will go on sale starting from the end of Q1 2015.
[Update: Samsung has changed the display resolution to full HD from HD, as revealed in the official brochure earlier.]