Samsung Galaxy A9 Price, Release Date, Specs & Update: new 6-inch Phablet With Huge Battery Capacity Launched in China

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Samsung just recently threw a Galaxy A party event for 2016 in China and the star of the night would have to be the Galaxy A9.

Leading to the event, a lot of speculations and rumors surrounded the upcoming premium smartphone, which leads the Samsung Galaxy A pack, as design and specs were said to have been revealed from different reports of leak, says SamMobile.

While the Galaxy A8 is already a decent smartphone in terms of its specs in its class, the Korean mobile phone maker made sure that the Galaxy A9 will have enough upgrade as a worthy successor. The A8 specs that include an 8-core Snapdragon 615 chip with 2 GB of RAM will be replaced by a 64-bit octa-core Snapdragon 652 processor paired with 3 GB RAM, wrote Gizmodo.

The Galaxy A9 will run an Android 5.1.1 Lollipop while the internal storage space comes at a base of 32 GB and the phone comes with a microSD card slot to support up to 128 GB capacity.

What is most noticeable, though, is the departure from the already huge 5.7-inch 1080p OLED display in A8 to an even bigger one this time around. The Galaxy A9 will be sporting a massive 6-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display with 2.5D curved glass. Now, that is as far as most major smartphone makers would push it in terms of screen size in the phablet category.

The primary camera in the A9 has taken a step back in terms of megapixels from 16 MP rear camera in the A8 down to 13 MP. The new camera, however, comes with OIS, apart from a ƒ/1.9 aperture. The front camera of the Galaxy A9, on the other hand, is upgraded from 5 MP to 8 MP. Other camera features include 1/3" sensor size, geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, panorama, and HDR, according to GSMArena.

But, while the Galaxy A8 was dubbed as the thinnest smartphone Samsung ever came up with at just 5.9 mm in thickness and weighs 5.3 oz., the A9 measures thicker at 7.4 mm, which is still relatively thin in general standards among smartphones today. Furthermore, Samsung has, somehow, managed to squeeze in a more powerful battery despite the measurement.

"Samsung is also stuffing a 4,000 mAh battery into the A9, which should give around one and a half to two days of total talk time-especially since the smartphone is using a pretty new (and power-efficient) processor, the 64-bit, eight-core (or octa-core) Snapdragon 652, and it's not using a Quad HD screen, just a 1920x1080 display," PCMag reports. The huge 4,000 mAh battery capacity, however, is non-removable.

Additional updates include a release date that is expected to be sometime in January 2016, but the price for the Galaxy A9 has yet to confirmed by Samsung as of yet.