Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime


The Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime is an Android-based smartphone produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics. It was unveiled in August 31, 2016 and released the month after. It was the first J series smartphone to feature an aluminium metal chassis alongside the Galaxy J5 Prime. The new smartphone included several new features that had never been used before on a phone. For example, the phone featured split screen application modes.

Specifications

The J7 Prime has a 13megapixels Sony Exmor RS IMX258 rear camera with LED flash, f/1.9 aperture, auto-focus and an 8megapixels Samsung's in-house ISOCELL front camera with f/1.9 aperture.
It is powered by an Exynos 7870 SoC including a 1.6 GHz octa-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU, Mali-T830MP1 GPU with 3 GB RAM. The either 16 or 32 GB of internal storage can be expanded up to 256 GB via microSD card.
The J7 Prime comes with a 5.5-inch Full HD PLS TFT screen, always-on fingerprint sensor and a 3300 mAh battery.

Software

The J7 Prime was launched with Android 6.0.1 "Marshmallow", running on Samsung's proprietary TouchWiz user interface. It can be upgraded to Android 8.1 "Oreo" along with Samsung's user interface, Samsung Experience. It supports VoLTE, Samsung Knox and Samsung's software enhancements.

Re-release

The Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime was later re-released in April 2018 as the Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime 2. It shares almost the same specifications with the original model, but it weighs 3 grams heavier than the original model, has a 13 MP front camera and it runs on Samsung Experience 8.0 powered by Android 7.0, upgradeable to Android 8.0 Oreo and Android 9 Pie. It is only available with 32 GB of storage and 3 GB of RAM.