Samsung will be bringing the Samsung Galaxy A55 and the Galaxy A35 to the Kenyan market very soon.
The Galaxy A55 and A35 were announced last week and will be unveiled in Kenya very soon. The duo will be the company’s latest mid-range smartphones in the country and succeed the Galaxy A54 and the A34 from 2023.
Samsung Galaxy A55
The A55 will have the same design features as the A54 which includes a glass back and front – both of which will be protected by Gorilla Glass Victus+ – an improvement over the A54’s Glass 5 protection. It will have IP67 dust and water resistance.
The A55 also has an aluminium frame and gorilla glass protecting the back.
The screen is a 6.6-inch SuperAMOLED panel(1080 x 2340 pixels) with a 120Hz refresh rate and HDR10+ support. It has 1300 nits peak brightness. You also get stereo speakers and an in-display optical fingerprint reader.
The A55 will be powered by an Exynos 1480 chipset that sports the same performance as the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1. The processor is paired with 8GB RAM and 128/256GB storage. There’s a version with 12GB RAM and 256GB storage.
You can expand the storage with an external microSD card.
It will ship with Android 14 and OneUI 6.1 and get four Android OS upgrades. It’s not as huge as the S24 series which gets seven years of Android OS upgrades. Also, unlike the flagship series, the A55 won’t get Galaxy AI.
For cameras, the phone has a 32MP selfie camera and a 50MP triple main camera which includes a 12MP ultrawide and a 5MP macro. the primary camera has OIS support. All the cameras can shoot 4K 30fps video.
Inside, the phone has a 5000mAh battery and 25W wired charging.
Colour options include Navy, Lilac, Lemon and Ice Blue.
Samsung Galaxy A35
The A35 has a glass front, plastic frame and glass back. The screen is a 6.6-inch SuperAMOLED screen with 120Hz refresh rate and 1300 nits peak brightness. It also has Gorilla Glass Victus+ protection for the screen, IP67 ingress protection, an under-display fingerprint reader and stereo speakers.
It comes powered by an Exynos 1380 processor(same processor as the A54) , 8GB RAM and up to 256GB storage. There’s also the option to expand onboard memory with an external microSD card.
Optics get improved as the phone gets a 50MP main camera with OIS accompanied by an 8MP ultrawide and 2MP macro. It also has a 13MP selfie camera. All the cameras can shoot 4K 30fps video.
Like the A55, it will have Android 14 and OneUI 6.1. It will get four Android OS upgrades.
You also have a 5000mAh battery and support for 25W wired charging.
Colour options include Navy, Lilac, Lemon and Ice Blue.
Launch Date
Samsung will announce the Galaxy A55 and A35 early next month in the country. Pring details will be shared next month as well.
Global prices are included below:
- Samsung Galaxy A55 – 8GB RAM/128GB storage: €480 or Ksh 69,000
- Samsung Galaxy A55 – 8GB RAM/256GB storage: €530 or Ksh 77,000
- Samsung Galaxy A35 – 6GB RAM/128GB storage: €380 or Ksh 55,000
- Samsung Galaxy A35 – 8GB RAM/256GB storage: €450 or Ksh 65,000
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