Samsung Galaxy J7 is a mid range Android smartphone produced by

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in 2015. In Latin America, Galaxy J7 (SM-J700M) was being sold alongside the

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(SM-G903M), which shares same Exynos 7580 Octa SoC. A J7+ would be announced in 2017 and later a J7 Pro and J7 Max in 2018 Samsung would launch a 32 GB variant in India in 2017. Samsung would add the J7 to its unlocked by Samsung portfolio alongside the J3.

Specifications

Hardware

The phone has versions with 1.5 GB of

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and 16GB internal storage that can be expanded with a

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card up to 128GB. It has 13-

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primary camera and 5-

front camera with

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. It has a 5.5 inches HD (720x1280 pixels) Super

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capacitive touchscreen. SoC
Qualcomm model: Snapdragon 615
SM-J700F / H / M models:

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7580
South Korea KT model (SM-J700K): Snapdragon 410
USA CDMA model (SM-J700P): Snapdragon 415 CPU
Qualcomm model: 4x

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1.7 GHz + 4x ARM Cortex-A53 1.1 GHz
SM-J700F / H / M models: Octa-core ARM Cortex-A53 1.5 GHz
South Korea KT model (SM-J700K): 4x ARM Cortex-A53 1.2 GHz
USA CDMA model (SM-J700P): Octa-core ARM-Cortex A53 1.4 GHz GPU
Qualcomm model:

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SM-J700F / H / M models: Mali-T720MP2
South Korea KT model (SM-J700K): Adreno 306
USA CDMA model (SM-J700P): Adreno 405 Unlimɛted Space

Software

This phone was officially released with Android 5.1.1

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. Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow update was made available for SM-J700F on 28 July 2016 in India. Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow update is also available for J700H and M in Pakistan and Panama. Android 7.1 Nougat was released for the models that came Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow pre-installed.

References

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Hardware

Software

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