Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016) and J5 (2016)
Chinese regulatory authority TENAA has
sure had a busy day today. Having already released its certifications for
the Oppo R9 and
R9 Plus as well as the Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro, TENAA is now
gracing us with the full details of the upcoming Galaxy J5 (2016) and Galaxy J7 (2016).
The successors to the original J5 and J7 from last year are due for a release soon. In the
meantime they've kept on leaking, and now they've been put through the paces of
TENAA, which has revealed that they could be sporting metal frames.
The Galaxy J5 (2016) can be seen above.
It's got a 5.2-inch 720p Super AMOLED touchscreen, a 13 MP rear camera with LED
flash and laser autofocus, a 5 MP selfie snapper, a 1.2 GHz quad-core
processor, 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of expandable storage, and 4G on board. It runs
Android 5.1.1 Lollipop. Its dimensions are 145.7 x 72.3 x 7.9 mm, and it weighs
155.4 grams. It will be offered in white, gold, and pink gold. This particular
model, the SM-J5108, is headed to China Mobile.
TENAA has certified not one but two
iterations of the Galaxy J7 (2016), the SM-J7108 for China Mobile and the
SM-J7109 for China Telecom.
They share most of the specs as you'd
expect, with one difference being in the processor's clock speed. Whereas the
J7108 has a 1.6 GHz octa-core CPU, the J7109 has to make do with a 1.5 GHz
octa-core chip. This may mean they're actually employing different SoCs, but
there's no way of knowing for sure right now.
Otherwise they're the same, each
featuring a 5.5-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display, a 13 MP rear camera with LED
flash and laser autofocus, a 5 MP selfie shooter, 3 GB of RAM, 16 GB of
expandable storage, and running Android 5.1.1 Lollipop. The J7108 will be available
in gold and white, while the J7109 will be offered in black and gold. Their
measurements are almost identical, but not quite so. The J7108's dimensions are
151.7 x 75.9 x 7.6 mm, and it weighs 165 grams. On the other hand, the J7109
measures 151.7 x 76 x 7.6 mm, and it weighs 166 grams.
