Samsung is already working on the Galaxy A36, which will of course be the successor to the Galaxy A35 which launched in March. Today, a prototype A36 performed quite a few Geekbench runs, which revealed that Samsung is testing the device with Android 15 on board.
That’s a version that Google launched yesterday for its Pixels but which is Samsung alone expected to be released next year with the arrival of the Galaxy S25 family in January. This likely means that the Galaxy A36 won’t land until after that, if it has to run Android 15 from day one, which is evident from the fact that it’s being tested with that version.
Given the lower segment Galaxy A16 5Gwhich one became official It was recently promised to get six major Android updates, the A36 should come with the same promise, and if it has Android 15 on board from day one, that means it will end its life on Android 21!
The Galaxy A36 is powered by the Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 or the Snapdragon 7s Gen 2, based on the GPU. The prototype tested today had 6GB of RAM, but there may be more options at launch. The Galaxy A35 shipped with Samsung’s Exynos 1380 SoC, so the A36 interestingly switches suppliers for its chipset.