Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017) in the news

The Galaxy A52 5G is expected to be the next best-selling midranger by Samsung, but the phone is yet to arrive. It already appeared in multiple leaks, revealing the majority of its specs, and now it has popped up on Google Play Console, confirming...

As phones age, the rate at which they receive software updates slows down - this is exactly what happened to several Samsung phones. The Galaxy J3 Pop/Emerge, Galaxy A7 (2017), Galaxy A5 (2017) and Galaxy A3 (2017) will no longer be receiving any...

Samsung has begun seeding the September security patch to several more devices ranging from the fairly new Galaxy A80 to some older units like the Galaxy A5 (2017) and Galaxy S8 and S8+. The new update comes under the A805FXXS2ASI2 name for...

When it comes to security updates, Samsung’s Android-powered devices roughly fall into two categories – ones that get monthly updates and ones that get a security patch once every three months. The Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, now three years old,...

Samsung announced today that the mobile payment platform Samsung Pay is celebrating its third birthday. Originally launched in South Korea, today the service reached its 24th market and first in Africa in the country of South Africa. With...

A couple of days ago the Oreo update for Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 edge reached the Nordic countries, starting with Sweden. Today it's become available in even more European countries, with confirmed sightings in Germany, Belgium, and...

Update: The roll out seems to have expanded. Reports say firmware version A320FLXXU2CRD4 for the model SM-A320FL is now hitting units in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Original story: Following the Galaxy A5 (2017), which started receiving...

New day, new info on the seemingly inevitable, yet never actually happening, Android 8.0 Oreo updates for the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge. This time it's courtesy of the Samsung-run Turkish website that translates to “Are we up to date?” which...

The upcoming Samsung Galaxy A6 and A6+ have been leaked today in renders based on CAD schematics. Each model gets a render video as well. These two models should launch soon, as the successors to the Galaxy A5 (2017), further cementing the Korean...

The Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017) is receiving the Android 8.0 Oreo update ahead of schedule. The update weighs in at 1.2 GB and besides bumping the Android version, it also ups the Samsung Experience to version 9.0. This version improves the...

Now that all of the last year's Samsung flagships have started receiving Oreo, the South Korean company seems to have shifted its focus to the next batch of devices that will get the update. The batch will likely include the Galaxy S7/S7 edge,...

Samsung Canada published an Oreo update notice, which fills in many more devices than were listed on the Turkish site and there are some differences in the dates (that was expected with staged rollouts). Here are the phones scheduled for an...

Samsung runs an interesting site in Turkey, the name of which translates to “Are we up to date?” and it does what it says on the tin. It tells you the planned release date of upcoming Android updates for the company’s Galaxy phones. Obviously,...

Samsung has officially announced the arrival of its mobile payments service Pay in Mexico. Yes, officially. That's because the service has been available in the country since November last year. With this, Mexico has become the second Latin...

Yesterday we told you that the Galaxy On7 Prime is available from today in India. There was an official launch event where Sandeep Singh Arora, Vice President of Marketing at Samsung, introduced the phone. He also stated that 3 million users in...

While we wait for 2018’s phone launches with anticipation, let’s take a moment and glance back over our shoulder and have a look at your most popular phones of 2017. Before we get into the phones themselves, it became apparent that 3 brands...

For whatever reason, it looks like Samsung is ready to change the branding for its A series smartphones. The successors to the Galaxy A5 (2017) and A7 (2017) will not be called A5 (2018) and A7 (2018), as you'd expect. A few days ago we found out...

Wi-Fi Alliance just granted the required certification to two Samsung phones. The products have model names SM-A530F and SM-A730F, meaning these are the Samsung Galaxy A5 (2018) and the Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018). Samsung Galaxy A5 (2018) and...

Samsung has started pushing out a new update to its Galaxy A5 (2017) and Galaxy A7 (2017) smartphones in India. Weighing in at around 1.4GB, and arriving as firmware version A520FXXUBQI5 and A720FXXU2BQI2, respectively, the update brings along...

The Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017) - which was launched back in January this year, and is already available in Europe and parts of Asia - has now arrived in the US. Retailer B&H is selling the phone in the country for $330. The model listed on the...