Samsung's new Galaxy J series phone may join 'Android Go' bandwagon

27 April 2018 8:49 PM IST

An entry-level Galaxy J series smartphone with model number SM-J260G has surfaced on Geekbench, ahead of any official announcement.

Samsung India has now entered into a partnership with Unesco MGIEP (The Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Su-stainable Development) to launch 360 video and Virtual Reality (VR) content of two magnificent Indian heritage sites namely the Sun Temple in Konark (Odisha) and the Taj Mahal in Agra (UP).

It seems that Samsung is following up the footsteps of HMD Global and other rivals. According to a fresh report, Samsung might soon unveil its first Android Go smartphone. An entry-level Galaxy J series smartphone with model number SM-J260G has surfaced on Geekbench, ahead of any official announcement.

The smartphone is widely speculated as the Galaxy J2 Core with the latest Android Oreo iteration, though the South Korean giant is yet to confirm the details.

The Geekbench listing shows that the new Samsung handset could run Android 8.1 Oreo. Under the hood, the device could be powered by a quad-core Exynos 7570 processor clocked at 1.43GHz, coupled with a 1GB of RAM. The listing further mentions “Universal7570_Go,” indicating the presence of Android Go. Furthermore, smartphones such as Lava Z50, Nokia 1 and Alcatel 1X already offers Android Oreo (Go edition) to the market.

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