The 2016 Samsung Galaxy J3 was a budget smartphone the South Korean conglomerate launched way back in January of this year.
This smartphone launched with a 5″ 720p display, Exynos 3475 SoC (while some had the Spreadtrum SC9830), and 1.5GB of RAM. Samsung has reportedly updated a few of the internal components of this device and will re-brand it as the Galaxy J3 Emerge early next year.
This leak comes to us from Evan Blass, who states he viewed a copy of the device’s user manual. Rumors have been calling this device the 2017 Galaxy J3, but it’s unclear if other markets will receive the device at all, let alone with that name. So for now all we are seeing is a small redesign of the device itself with a two-tone gray color, but the bigger changes here are the internal hardware specs.
Instead of the Spreadtrum/Exynox SoC, the Galaxy J3 Emerge will launch with the Snapdragon 430, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage. The original J3 launched with Android 5.1.1 Lollipop, but the new J3 Emerge is said to have Android 6.0 Marshmallow installed out of the box. The camera setup remains the same as the U.S. variant of the original J3, with a 5MP rear-facing camera and a 2MP front-facing camera (both fixed-focus).
We’re told to expect 720p video capture with this device, just like we saw with the U.S. variant as well. Another specification that is unchanged is the battery capacity. The new Galaxy J3 Emerge will launch with a 2,600mAh battery. While that might not sound like much, it should be plenty to give respectable battery life on a device with a 5″ 720p Super AMOLED panel.
Sadly, we’re not told how much this device will cost at this time. As far as release details go, we should see the Galaxy J3 Emerge launched on Sprint, Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile on January 6th of 2017.
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