New Samsung Galaxy A7 passes through FCC certification

The Galaxy S6 comes with an octa-core processor with four Cortex-A57 cores at 2.1GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores at 1.5GHz.

Samsung is now preparing to launch successors to its Galaxy A series of premium midrange smartphones and phablets. That coupled with the recent appearance of the new Galaxy A9 and the rest of the 2016 Galaxy A line in various benchmarks listings show us that the Samsung Galaxy A7 release could arrive sooner than later.

The second Generation of Samsung Galaxy A7 had previously received a certification from the Bluetooth SIG group and also cleared the TENAA in China. We recently reported that the Samsung Galaxy A3 and A5 passed through the FCC, which could indicate an imminent release. According to, Samsung will bring back microSD expansion slots to the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, something the company highly touted for years when comparing its high-end smartphones with Apple’s iPhones. The smartphone is expected to come packed with a 5.5-inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels, which results in a pixel density of 401 pixels per inch. It will house a 13-MP primary camera and a 5-MP shooter on the front for selfies. The phablet is expected to use a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor, Adreno 405 GPU (graphics processing unit) and 3 GB of RAM to keep things running smoothly. The phone preinstalled with Android 5.1.1 Lollipop will probably house a non-removable battery of unspecified capacity.

While the Samsung Galaxy A7 FCC filing doesn’t tell us much, we already have a good idea of what to expect from the device.

We’ve been keeping tabs on all Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge news as it becomes available, and in August, we that Samsung had begun testing a smartphone with the codename “Jungfrau”, which was widely believed to be the Galaxy S7.