The Samsung Galaxy A17 5G has appeared on a well-liked benchmarking device, confirming a number of the funds smartphone’s key specs within the course of, and suggesting that it’ll deal with the most important flaw of its predecessor.
As famous by X consumer Abhishek Yadav has posted proof of a telephone labelled the Samsung SM-A176B – full identify the Samsung Galaxy A17 5G – showing on the Geekbench device.
The lowly rating of 942 single-core and 2137 multi-core is by the by. It is a funds telephone, and one which hasn’t but been totally optimised, so we’re not anticipating excellent outcomes.
Samsung Galaxy A17 efficiency and software program
Extra fascinating is the reveal of a Exynos 1380 processor. That’s a comparatively minor improve on the Samsung Galaxy A16 5G’s Exynos 1330.
It’s additionally the chip that was beforehand used within the Samsung Galaxy A35 5G, and the Samsung Galaxy A54 5G earlier than that. This continues Samsung’s behavior of pushing its older funds chips additional down the road because the years roll on.

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Identical to the Galaxy A35 5G, that processor comes accompanied by 6GB of RAM – a welcome 50% improve on the Samsung Galaxy A16 5G. We’re not anticipating this to be a velocity demon (fairly clearly, because the Geekbench end result exhibits), however the expertise of utilizing it ought to no less than be much less halting than the Galaxy A16 5G.
The Geekbench itemizing additionally confirms that the Samsung Galaxy A17 5G is working on Android 15, which suggests it’ll include One UI 7, not the newest One UI 8, out of the field.
Samsung Galaxy A17 specs
None of this comes as a shock, after all. We heard all concerning the Samsung Galaxy A17’s specs approach again in December, courtesy of a leak.
One of many different advances revealed by that earlier leak is that the Samsung Galaxy A17 5G will sport a brand new and improved 8MP ultra-wide digicam (up from 5MP).
The 50MP essential digicam, in the meantime, might obtain OIS this time, which might be big for picture readability – particularly in low mild. 4K video recording might additionally be part of the social gathering.

