Samsung is gearing up to expand its mid-range lineup with two new phones – the Galaxy A56 and Galaxy A36. Samsung’s support page for both devices (with model number ‘SM-A566B/DS’ and ‘SM-A366B/DS’) are now live in France.
It indicates that Samsung is going to launch the devices soon in the country, and probably, in other regions like the US and India as well. The ‘DS’ in the model name could refer to dual-SIM support.
While the support pages don’t reveal much about the devices, they have already appeared on benchmark and certification platforms revealing some key details.
Galaxy A56 & A36: here’s what to expect
The Galaxy A56 could come with an interesting redesign. Previously revealed CAD renders show that the phone will come with a vertical pill-shaped rear-camera design, something unique in the recent offerings from Samsung as well as its competitors. On the front, the phone packs a flat display that apparently has slightly slimmer bezels than the Galaxy A55. The ‘Key Island’ is also present on the top right of the phone.
According to the Geekbench listing, the phone comes with Android 15. So you can expect One UI 7. Speaking of hardware, it packs the Exynos 1580 chip, the successor of the Exynos 1480 that powers the Galaxy A55. As for the performance improvement, the new chip is built on a new node, with ARMv9 CPU cores and double the GPU hardware. Specifically, the chip is fabbed on Samsung’s third-generation 4nm EUV FinFET process.
Samsung has shifted to a three-cluster design for the CPU – one prime Cortex-A720 core (2.9GHz), three big A720 cores (2.6GHz) and four A520 (1.95GHz). This alone represents a major performance boost compared to the 1480, which used ARMv8 cores. While the Galaxy A55 scores around 1150 and 3400 in Geekbench, the A56 scored 1341 and 3846.
Other improvements include faster (at least on paper) 45W charging, up from 25W of the predecessor.
As for the Galaxy A36, previous reports hint at a similar redesign for the camera module. The phone is also rumored to be slightly smaller than its predecessor, with a 6.64″ display down from 6.6″. According to The Tech Outlook, this phone could be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 or Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 chipset. it should offer power efficiency improvement over the Exynos 1380 of its predecessor.
Overall, you should expect a new design and improved performance and power efficiency from the new A series devices.
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(Source: Galaxy A56, Galaxy A36)
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