After the successful launching of its Samsung Galaxy S6 and the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge in March this year, the Korean tech giant has reinforced its reputation as a flagship smartphone maker and one of the best in the industry in producing high-end handsets.
However, Samsung is well aware of the fact that the high-end smartphone market is relatively small compared to the midrange handset category.
Over the years, Samsung has covered much of the smartphone market spectrum with the exception of the low-end market category, sort of leaving the crumbs to the small market players.
Samsung is actually the foremost rival of Apple in producing high-end and pricey smartphones and other gadgets, but it has been doing something that the American tech giant cannot and will never do. Samsung has a presence in the midrange handset category and Apple does not have it.
It has produced smartphones to cater to those who want the Samsung quality on smartphones but on the affordable side. The Korean tech giant decided to launch its J series this year, which is the company’s latest smartphone product for the midrange segment of the market.
Identical smartphones
Just like the Samsung Galaxy S6 and the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, Samsung has launched the Samsung Galaxy J7 and the Samsung Galaxy J5 in June, further reinforcing its reputation for simultaneously launching products that are almost similarly priced and shares the same features and specifications.
However, the Samsung Galaxy J7 is the more top-of-the-line variant between the two and reports have it that when it was launched in China in June and in India in July, it has stirred a storm in the midrange market segment.
The Galaxy J7 is larger than the Galaxy J5 with its 5.5-inch screen compared to the latter’s 5-inch display screen. However, both have the same 720 x 1280-pixel resolution, notes Neurogadget.
In terms of power under the hood, the Galaxy J7 is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 610 chipset while the Galaxy J5 features the slightly inferior Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor. The Snapdragon 610 is an octa-core processor while the Snapdragon 410 is only quad-core.
The smartphones also have similar cameras. Both smartphones feature a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera that comes with a range of functionalities including face detection, autofocus and LED flash.
In terms of memory, both the Galaxy J7 and the Galaxy J5 feature internal memory and an external memory card. While the high-end variants of the Samsung smartphones have started doing away with the external memory card support altogether, but the same features have been maintained with both midrange handsets.
The Galaxy J5 is also lighter than the Galaxy J7 as it weighs only 145 grams compared to the latter which weighs 171 grams. The weight difference is attributed basically to the battery that each device is using or has used in the past.
Impressive as it is affordable
NDTV Gadgets describes the Samsung Galaxy J7 and the Galaxy J5 as affordable smartphones with impressive specifications and features.
When the two midrange handsets came out in the Indian retail market, the Samsung Galaxy J7 came with a retail price of $230.45 while the Samsung Galaxy J5 is worth $184.36.
Both the Samsung Galaxy J7 and the Samsung Galaxy J5 are being positioned by the Korean tech giant as an affordable device for gamers as the devices can potentially deliver smooth online gaming experience using 4G LTE connectivity.
Samsung has partnered with Airtel 4G so that both the Galaxy J7 and the Galaxy J5 would receive double Airtel 4G LTE data along with unlimited music downloads through the Wynk Music app.