Samsung Galaxy A7, its Slimmest Smartphone

Samsung has finally made the long-awaited Galaxy A7 Smartphone official. The new model is the thinnest Smartphone made by the company yet at 6.3mm.

This Smartphone is a part of Samsung's new A series, has a metallic body and takes a spot above the Galaxy A5 and A3 in the company's new portfolio.

Galaxy A7 sports a 5.5-inch HD (720p) Super AMOLED display and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat)-based TouchWiz UI; the model will receive Android 5.0 (Lollipop) update, the company said. It comes with 16GB internal storage, 2GB RAM and microSD card support up to 64GB. The Smartphone is powered by a 2,600mAh battery.

Samsung will offer the Galaxy A7 in two variants. The model supporting 4G connectivity will run on the 64-bit octa-core Snapdragon 615 processor (1.5GHz quad-core + 1GHz quad-core), whereas the model limited to 3G support will be powered by Samsung's own octa-core Exynos processor (1.8GHz quad-core + 1.3GHz quad-core).

On the camera front, Galaxy A7 sports a 13MP sensor on the back and a 5MP shooter in front. Among the imaging-focussed software features of the Smartphone are wide-angle selfie, rear-cam selfie and beauty face.

Some of the other unique features of Samsung Galaxy A7 are Ultra Power Saving Mode, changeable themes, private mode, multi screen and Quick Connect.

Galaxy A7 : Samsung’s thinnest Smartphone

Samsung is gearing up to officially launch its Galaxy A7 smartphone.

After getting a nod from US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Samsung has also got the approval from Chinese certification agency TENAA.

The Galaxy A7 measures 150.9x75.9x6.3mm, making it the thinnest smartphone ever from the South Korean tech giant. At 6.3mm, the Galaxy A7 is slightly slimmer than the 6.7mm thin Samsung Galaxy Alpha and Galaxy A5, both of which are currently the thinnest Samsung smartphones.

The TENAA device listing mentions the screen size as 5.5-inch with 1920x1080p resolution, in line with the leaks from GFXBench and FCC.

Samsung Galaxy A7 will be powered by a 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 chipset, which packs an octa-core processor clocked at 1.5GHz. Running on Android 4.4.4 (KitKat), this smartphone has 2GB RAM and 16GB internal storage. The A7 is also expected to sport a 12MP primary camera 5MP secondary camera.