The Samsung Galaxy J1 is an Android

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developed by

Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (, sometimes shortened to SEC and stylized as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational electronics corporation headquartered in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea. It is the pinnacle of the Samsung chaebol, acc ...

. It was released in January 2015 and is the first phone of the

Galaxy J series The Samsung Galaxy J series is a discontinued line (but continued in software update) entry-level Android mobile produced by the South Korean company Samsung Electronics, first introduced in 2015. This series is a part of Samsung Galaxy series, ...

. It was marketed as an entry-level device starting at $100.

History

The Galaxy J1 was announced in January 2015 as the first model of the J series. The 3G model was released in February 2015, the 4G model one month after. In the following months Samsung launched more smartphones bearing the ''J1'' name such as the J1 Ace/Ace Neo, J1 Nxt/mini and J1 mini prime. In January 2016, the successor Galaxy J1 (2016) was released.

Specifications

Hardware

The Samsung Galaxy J1 is available in a 3G and a 4G version. Both models have an ARM Cortex-A7

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with either two (3G) or four cores (4G) with 512 MB (3G) or 768 MB (4G) of RAM respectively, and 4 GB of internal storage. The phone also has a slot for a microSD card (up to 256 gigabytes) and

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card support. The rear camera's resolution is 5

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s while the front camera is 2 megapixels and both film video at 720p 30 fps.

Software

The J1 is shipped with Android 4.4.4 "KitKat" and Samsung's

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user interface. The original model never got updated to

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, but got an unofficial Android 7.1.2 "Nougat" custom firmware port o
XDA-Developers
. A
unofficial port
of TWRP exists for this device.

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released a special branded J1 4G. It's shipped with Android 5.0.2 "Lollipop" which is upgradable to 5.1.1 as of September 2015.

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