Entire mid-range Samsung Galaxy A (2016) smartphone family ‘confirmed’ for Nougat updates

In a way, it certainly pays off to flood the smartphone market with dozens of different models each year, covering every specific size, build, processing and pricing need consumers around the world may feel.

That’s actually one of the reasons why Samsung is still the number one mobile hardware vendor, even after the Galaxy Note 7 snafu, with so many low, mid and high-end product rosters to choose from. But software support is often the reverse of the medal.

Seeing as how Android 7.0 isn’t quite ready for primetime yet as far as a single Galaxy flagship is concerned, you’re probably wondering what that means for older, humbler Samsung devices. Long waiting times, most likely, but no shocking snubs, fortunately.

It’s reportedly “confirmed” now that the 2016 editions of the mid-range Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 and A9 Pro will all leave Marshmallow behind to embrace sweet Nougat goodies… eventually. Yes, even the 4.7-inch Snapdragon 410/Exynos 7578 Galaxy A3 (2016), released back in December 2015 with Lollipop out the box.

Sadly, we don’t have update ETAs to share at the moment, although it’s safe to assume the Galaxy S7, S7 Edge, Note 5, S6, S6 Edge, Edge+, and Tab S2, at the very least, will jump on the Android Nougat bandwagon first. And then you need to consider the looming 2017 Galaxy A lineup, which may well run Marshmallow off the bat, switching to OS build N soon after their commercial launches.

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Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro launches in India at $485 with 5,000 mAh battery in tow

When not busy urging Galaxy Note 7 buyers to return the hazardous S Pen phablet, handling exchanges, and giving out compensatory freebies, Samsung likes to flood the global mid-range market with

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HP Elite x3 and Galaxy A9 Pro get Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FCC papers

We’re closer and closer to the release of the HP Elite x3, the baddest ass Windows 10 Mobile phone we have seen yet. It was originally slated to be an enterprise-only release, but the company has relented to fans with some availability planned for individuals.Meantime, the Galaxy A9 Pro ...

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Windows 10 at Build 2016, data only phone plans, is the iPhone SE a success? | Pocketnow Weekly 194

How can we tell if the iPhone SE is a sales success? What’s new for Windows 10 at Build 2016? Could you use your smart PHONE without any phone call capabilities?We’ve been hard at work covering news stories and producing the next generation of phone reviews. We recently started a new series of videos delving deeper into camera performance and we’re taking a closer look at mobile audio hardware, but of course we’ll be tackling your ...

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Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro goes official in China with 4GB RAM, 5,000 mAh battery

Another confusingly familiar, confusingly branded, confusingly priced mid-range Android smartphone from Samsung? Not exactly, or at least, not entirely.Granted, on the outside, the just-announced Galaxy A9 Pro looks essentially identical to the standard A9 unveiled back in December. And the name is inherently puzzling, making it even harder than before to keep track of all the inexplicably similar A-series,

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Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro hits the FCC (but don’t count on a US release)

Samsung’s latest flagship smartphones are here, as the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge are already showing up in the hands of users, but we’ve been following rumors suggesting that the manufacturer’s not quite done with its new launches just yet. For the past few weeks now, we’ve taken to assembling a growing body of evidence pointing to the company’s plans for the Galaxy A9 Pro, a solidly-equipped six-inch mid-ranger. Last week we got to take a look at the model

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Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro shows its face ahead of formal China debut

Guess it’s time to file that Windows 10 wild guess under utopian dreams for good, as the upcoming Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro will only differ from the standard A9 in memory, photography, pre-loaded software build and thickness departments.Several recent benchmarks suggested the SM-A9100 would ...

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New Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro benchmarks show how it improves over Galaxy A9 itself

So much of the recent Samsung smartphone news has focused on the flagship Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge that it’s easy for the little guys to fall through the cracks – even when that “little” guy is a phablet larger than either flagship. But going back a little over a month now, we’ve had a few opportunities to hear about a new A-series handset in Samsung’s pipeline as we checked out rumors and evidence pointing to work on a six-inch Galaxy A9 Pro. How would the phone differ from the ...

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Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro GFXBench’d

This quick-rising rascal seems to be pretty quick in itself.The Galaxy A-series 2016 has come about with the Galaxy A9 being the standard bearer for the line. That phone hit the upper mid-range on the price scale, but we wondered what a Galaxy A9 Pro would go for. We caught up with it in India and had

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Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro closes in on official launch, wild guess calls for Windows 10 onboard

Market cannibalization and brand dilution have been two of Samsung’s biggest sins for several years now, and while the repetitive Galaxy S7 Plus and S7 Edge Plus are probably not happening this spring after all, a Galaxy A9 Pro is.Or so it would appear, based on intel exclusively shared by credible tipsters with SamMobile

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Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro may be on the way

This is pretty much upgrading upon the upper mid-range of smartphones to the point where the company should just call it a flagship. With the Galaxy A9 being promoted — because why not? — and sold for good, but not great wads of ...

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