Samsung Galaxy J2 2018 launches in India, J-series Android Go phone also in the works

Samsung continues to expand the popular budget-friendly Galaxy J smartphone family, with the J2 2018 officially unveiled in India, and a J2 Core likely in the pipeline running Android Oreo (Go Edition) software.

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Xiaomi takes top two slots on India’s list of best-selling 2017 smartphones

Samsung may have been India's top overall 2017 smartphone vendor, but Xiaomi won the final quarter, also leading the full-year model popularity chart.

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Samsung discreetly unveils Galaxy J2 Pro (2018) and Galaxy On7 Prime phones

Far from what you'd call special or eye-catching mobile gear, the entry-level Samsung Galaxy J2 Pro (2018) and mid-range Galaxy On7 Prime have come out in Vietnam and India respectively.

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Galaxy S7 Edge rules best-selling Android smartphone list, surprisingly followed by J2

A number of research firms have come out with their Q2 or overall H1 2016 smartphone sales reports, unanimously concluding Android as a whole continued to surge, while iOS lost a bit of steam, and Windows plunged closer than ever to absolute market irrelevance.As far as OEMs go, Samsung enjoyed a couple of

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Samsung Galaxy J2 Pro and Galaxy Tab J are here to increase brand confusion

If there’s one thing preventing Samsung these days from selling low to mid-end Android gear in comparable numbers to premium members of the Galaxy S and Note smartphone families, it’s probably an acute lack of identity.Everybody likes choice and diversity, but not brand dilution and disorientation, which is exactly what you get when releasing a Galaxy J2 Pro mere weeks after the “standard” ...

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Samsung Galaxy J2 (2016) is official with respectable specs, Smart Glow alerts

While typically we’d pay little attention to yet another familiar, somewhat premature entry into the low-end Galaxy J smartphone series, Samsung actually has something new and different featured on the J2 (2016).Something even the super-premium Note 7 or GS8 could pick up to enable color-coded LED notifications. The technology is dubbed Smart Glow, and at least on the Samsung Galaxy J2 2016 edition, it lets you set Priority and Usage Alerts, as well as ...

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Galaxy S8 could also get Galaxy J2’s Smart Glow

Samsung is likely switching out the notification LED for a illuminated ring and will debut the feature, dubbed Smart Glow, on the Galaxy J2. That we can figure out so far. The Galaxy Note 7 may get the feature, too and so may the

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Multiple Samsung Galaxy J2 (2016) benchmarks reveal full low-end specs

If you’ve started to find Samsung’s alphabet soup of entry-level and mid-range phones pretty much as confusing as the company’s old product lineup and its respective branding, it seems as though the market-leading OEM has similar issues keeping track of A or J-series releases.Case in point, the upcoming Galaxy J2 (2016), aka SM-J210, benchmarked through AnTuTu, GFX Bench and Geekbench with specs reminiscent of the J3 (2016) that barely saw daylight last fall in China,

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Samsung Galaxy J3 quietly goes official in China with J5-similar features

Well, this is odd, even considering how hard Samsung has made it of late to separate various non-flagship models in the Galaxy A, E, J, and On families. Yet another J has been unveiled in China with little to no fanfare, and while it technically does squeeze between the previously released J2 and J5 on the performance totem pole, as expected, the Galaxy J3 looks nearly identical to the J5.It also greatly resembles

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Samsung Galaxy J3 gets benchmarked, squeezes between J2 and J5

Besides reportedly prepping the initiation of a Galaxy O smartphone family, and continuation of the A roster, the Android diversity champions apparently have the expansion of the J lineup in the pipeline as well.The Samsung Galaxy J3 should help fill the blanks between the just-released J2 and four month-old J5, with decidedly unremarkable specifications ...

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Samsung Galaxy Grand On swings by FCC on way to market with 4G LTE

It’s no big secret anymore that Samsung plans to expand its already far-reaching Galaxy of smartphones with at least two O-series models. These may go against the recent single-letter branding trend, and carry more convoluted Grand On and Mega On monikers to put the spotlight on their large screens.But rumor has it the Galaxy Grand On isn’t that “grand”, with a 5-inch 720p ...

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Samsung Galaxy Grand On swings by FCC on way to market with 4G LTE

It’s no big secret anymore that Samsung plans to expand its already far-reaching Galaxy of smartphones with at least two O-series models. These may go against the recent single-letter branding trend, and carry more convoluted Grand On and Mega On monikers to put the spotlight on their large screens.But rumor has it the Galaxy Grand On isn’t that “grand”, with a 5-inch 720p ...

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