The New Samsung Galaxy A9 Is Going To Cost You $500

Samsung recently released the new Galaxy A9 a few days ago at an event in China. The price was unannounced at that time, but it has already been revealed now and it doesn’t come cheap. The new Samsung Galaxy A9 is a 6-inch device and like we pointed out, it stands on the borderline between a tablet and a smartphone.

Thanks to Weibo, a screenshot has been published showing the phone is going to cost RMB 3,199 in China and given the current exchange rate, that should be about $495 USD. It’s not really a bad bargain as the phone packs some power beneath the surface.

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Samsung Galaxy A9 is a device with high-end specifications plus a large 4,000mAh. The 6-inch Super AMOLED display has a resolution of 1080 x 1920, giving an approximate 367 ppi display density. It’s powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 chipset. The octa-processor is divided into two quad-core clusters. The Cortex-A72 cluster is clocked at 1.8GHz and the other Cortex-A53 is clocked at 1.2GHz. There’s an Adreno 510 GPU for graphics.

There’s a 13MP shooter at the back with optical image stabilization and a f/1.9 aperture. The 8MP camera sitting in the front too has a f/1.9 aperture. Samsung Galaxy A9 comes with a fingerprint sensor integrated into the home button.

It comes with a 3GB RAM and there’s 32GB internal storage but it’s expandable to 128GB. It presently runs Lollipop but there’s a planned upgrade to Marshmallow The phone was spotted on Antutu earlier this week with a score of 73,592.

Samsung Galaxy A9 is available only in China for now but it may be launched globally soon.