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Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy J5 and Galaxy J7 in China, where it’s going to be available starting this week. The Galaxy J5 is priced at US$225 and the Galaxy J7 is priced at US$290. There has been no official word from Samsung on the availability in other countries including Nepal.

What has been packed inside Galaxy J5 and Galaxy J7 ?

Galaxy J5 and Galaxy J7 are Samsung’s first line-up of smartphones to feature a front facing camera with LED flashes. Both these phones sport a 5MP front camera with LED flash and wide angle lens. Samsung says these phones will be perfect for youths.

Galaxy J5 sports a 5 inch HD (1280×720) display, quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor, 1.5GB RAM, 16GB of expandable storage, 13MP f/1.9 rear camera, and 2600mAh battery.

Galaxy J7 has slightly better specs as it is equipped with a bigger 5.5 inch HD display and is powered by Octa Core Snapdragon 615 processor, and a bigger battery capacity of 3000mAh.

Connectivity-wise, both devices offer Dual SIM 4G LTE capabilities, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1, NFC, and GPS. Both devices come with Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system with TouchWiz UI out of the box.

Specs Comparison: Galaxy J5 Vs Galaxy J7 

Both these phones will be available in black, white and gold color options. As of now, it seems that the Galaxy J7 and Galaxy J5 will only be available in China. However, we expect a global launch to happen in coming days.

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Samsung, one of the most beloved smartphone out there, and SwiftKey, one of the best keyboard app for Android, when they’re put together it sounds like a great combination, doesn’t it? Actually, it’s not!

A security flaw in the SwiftKey keyboards pre-installed on Samsung smartphones is leaving at least 600 million devices vulnerable to hackers including the new Samsung Galaxy S6. The exploit was recently demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference in London by Ryan Welton, a researcher with security firm NowSecure. NowSecure, found that the pre-installed SwiftKey app can be tricked to download language pack updates over a unencrypted connection in plain text. Thus in the presence of language packs, malicious code can be injected to take control of the smartphone.

The flaw allows a hacker to remotely:
1) Access sensors and resources like GPS, camera and microphone.
2) Secretly install a malicious app(s) without the user knowing.
3) Tamper with how other apps work or how the phone works.
4) Eavesdrop on incoming/outgoing messages or voice calls.
5) Give an attempt to access sensitive personal data like pictures and text messages.

And the scary thing is hackers can exploit the vulnerability even when the SwiftKeykeyboard is not used as the default keyboard.

There are millions of Samsung devices with SwiftKey keyboard, still vulnerable via this loophole. The list of affected devices includes Galaxy S6, Galaxy S5, Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S4 Mini, however, NowSecure cautions that this is not an all-inclusive list of impacted devices.

There is no way one can uninstall SwiftKey from the Samsung’s Galaxy range of devices since the app has been whitelisted and deemed to be native. The keyboard which cannot be disabled or uninstalled allows hackers easy access to users’ devices. However, you can always remove a system app simply by rooting your device. If you don’t want to root your device wait till there is a patch released for the Samsung phones. If you own a Samsung device and are concerned about this bug, NowSecure advises that you do not use insecure Wi-Fi networks and do not update your language packages in the mean time.

Samsung has already launched 3 metal body A series phones—the Galaxy A3, A5, and A7. Now we are expecting Samsung to add a new smartphone to its A-series codenamed Galaxy A8.

According to leaked benchmark from GFXBench, the Galaxy A8 will offer a 5.7 inch Super AMOLED Display with Full HD resolution, Octa Core Snapdragons 615 SoC, 2 GB of RAM, 16GB of expandable storage, 15MP & 5MP cameras, and Android Lollipop 5.1 out of the box. The design will likely be same as other A-series i.e a metal uniform body.

NOWHEREELSE.FR has posted some leaked pictures of the Galaxy A8 that shows an extremely thin device measuring just 5.9 millimeters in thickness, which is thinner than the Galaxy S6 and iPhone 6. Despite being so thin, the device comes with a huge 3050 mAh battery, which is non-removable since the phone has a unibody design.  

Other specification suggests the phone has a hybrid dual SIM slot with the second SIM slot working as a port for either a SIM card or a microSD card. There is no official word on when it’s going to be unveiled, but it should be launched in the second quarter of this year.

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Samsung is set to launch a new smartphone to their galaxy family codenamed Galaxy J5. Sammobile.com, a website that usually comes up with rumors and leaked photos related to Samsung, shows up the specs and photos of Galaxy J5.

In the photo, we can see Samsung using the same plastic body build on the Galaxy J5. Hardware specs suggest a 5-inch display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 SoC, 1.5 GB of RAM and 13/5MP cameras. Here are the rumored specs of Samsung Galaxy J5 (SM-J500F):

-5-inch 720P display
-Android Lollipop 5.1
-1.2GHz Snapdragon 410 quad-core processor
-1.5GB RAM
-8GB internal storage
-Expandable via microSD card
-13MP rear camera
-5MP front camera
-Removable 2,600mAh battery
-Expected Price: $200

According to the different sources, the Galaxy J5 will make its debut together with the higher end Galaxy J7, which is rumored to feature a 5.5-inch 720p display and an octa core processor. There have been no official words from Samsung on when these devices are going to get unveiled, but we expect it to happen soon.

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