Samsung Galaxy A9 official now with Snapdragon 652 and 6-inch display

Samsung Galaxy A9, that was approved by Chinese TENAA yesterday, is now officially launched in China with all rumored specifications. The phone is officially listed on Samsung China website with full details. However, no availability and pricing details are listed on the official website. The Galaxy A9 is the top end smartphone from Samsung that is launched in the ‘Galaxy A’ series of Samsung at an event in China. The Galaxy A9 was stared in number of leaks and rumors until now but now its been official.

The Samsung Galaxy A9 comes with a 6-inch Full HD Super AMOLED display with 2.5D curved glass and 1920×1080 pixels resolution. It is powered by a Octa Core Snapdragon 652 (which is now SD620) processor (Quad 1.8GHz ARM Cortex A72 + Quad 1.2GHz A53 CPUs) with Adreno 510 GPU. It comes with 3GB of RAM and 32GB inbuilt storage with expandable storage up to 128GB via micro SD card. It runs on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop OS out of the box as we saw on its TENAA listing.

The Galaxy A9 features a 13-megapixel rear camera with OIS, S5K3L2 sensor, f/1.9 aperture and LED flash. it also comes with a front facing camera of 8-megapixel with f/1.9 aperture. It supports Dual-SIM and comes with a fingerprint sensor available at home button. It comes with a large 4000mAh battery with fast charging feature. Connectivity options available are 4G LTE, Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth v 4.1, ANT+ and NFC.

The Samsung Galaxy A9 will be available in White, Gold and Pink color variants. It also comes with Samsung Pay support. We can expect that Samsung will upgrade Galaxy A9 with Android 6 Marshmallow soon as its already official. The availability and pricing details are still not known.

Samsung Galaxy A series is available with the second generation of high-end smartphones like Galaxy A3, Galaxy A5, Galaxy A7 and Galaxy A8 already and now the Galaxy A9 has joined the Galaxy A series lineup of the company with premium features and large display. All the new Galaxy A series smartphones now have support of fingerprint scanner on home button which was not available in the first generation of all Galaxy A series smartphones.

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