Samsung launched its mid-range Galaxy A35 5G smartphone back in March this year and we know the company has started working on its successor. The Galaxy A36 has now appeared on the performance benchmarking site, Geekbench, for the first time and it comes with a surprising Android version.
Samsung Galaxy A36 5G Geekbench
The device appeared in the benchmark with the model number SM-A336B. Based on Samsung’s typical naming pattern, we are sure that this is the Galaxy A36 5G.
The device actually made several benchmark runs, and while you can see one of its performance scores below, the most interesting reveal is that Samsung is already testing the device with Android 15 on board.Â
Google recently released Android 15 for its Pixel phones, and Samsung is expected to roll out its own version based on the new Android with the Galaxy S25 series in January. If the Galaxy A36 comes with Android 15 pre-installed, we can likely expect it to launch after the S25 series, around the same time as the Galaxy A35.
We can also expect the Galaxy A36 to receive six years of Android and security patch updates, as even the budget Galaxy A16 5G offers the same.
The benchmark shows the device with 6GB of RAM, but an 8GB version might also be available when it launches.
As for the chipset, we’re still uncertain. The benchmarks show its octa-core CPU with four high-performance cores clocked at 2.4GHz and four power-efficient cores at 1.8GHz. Whereas, the graphics are handled by an Adreno 710 GPU.
So the chip could be either the Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 or Snapdragon 7s Gen 2, both of which are built on Samsung Foundry’s 4nm process.
Earlier this month, We were the first to reveal that Samsung has already started working on the Galaxy A36. We spotted two models of the smartphone in the IMEI database: SM-A366B/DS and SM-A366U.Â
The first is the global version of the smartphone with dual SIM support, hence the “/DS” suffix. Whereas, the latter is the version that will be sold in the US.
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