5-inch Samsung Galaxy J3 coming soon as a new affordable Android smartphone?

posted by Florin T.

Oct 08, 2015, 10:36 AM

5-inch Samsung Galaxy J3 coming soon as a new affordable Android smartphone?

Last month, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy J2 (pictured on the left) in India, and it looks like now it's getting ready to introduce another member of the Galaxy J series: the J3.

Recently benchmarked over at GFXBench and Geekbench, the Galaxy J3 (model number SM-J3109) seems to be larger, and more advanced than the J2. Apparently, the upcoming handset sports a 5-inch display with 720 x 1280 pixels - a clear improvement over the 4.7-inch, 540 x 960 pixels screen of the J2. The new handset also seems to feature an 8 MP rear camera, a 5 MP front-facing camera, 1 GB of RAM, and 8 GB of expandable internal memory. As for the processor that's powering the J3, this is a quad-core, 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 clocked at 1.2 GHz.

At the moment, the Samsung Galaxy J3 runs Android 5.1.1. We don't know where, and neither when the new smartphone will be available to buy, though it's probably safe to assume that it's going to be affordable. In any case, Samsung's Galaxy J series is slowly but surely growing: the J3 will be the family's fifth member, after the Galaxy J1, Galaxy J2, Galaxy J5, and Galaxy J7.

Coming soon - Samsung Galaxy J3

sources: GFXBench, Geekbench via Winfuture, SamMobile

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11 Comments

11. dorfoz

Posts: 156; Member since: Oct 18, 2011

anything affordable android is in the back burner for software upgrades. These are probably recycled old phones.

posted on Oct 10, 2015, 7:48 PM 0

9. shimanto1123

Posts: 105; Member since: Nov 20, 2014

Another day, another Galaxy!

posted on Oct 08, 2015, 8:27 PM 0

8. aegislash

Posts: 1541; Member since: Jan 27, 2015

Didn't Samsung say they were going to be making less devices this year? Not sure of the total count but it seems like a new device is either rumored or revealed every week.

posted on Oct 08, 2015, 7:46 PM 0

7. Hexa-core

Posts: 2131; Member since: Aug 11, 2015

Let's wait for it's price

posted on Oct 08, 2015, 5:05 PM 0

5. nepalisherpa

Posts: 338; Member since: Jul 17, 2015

It's amazing how they can release so many models. Why not only have 4 models/phones (a Note series, a flagship, a mid-range, and a low-range) and support them really well?