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New Milky way A5 pops up; this is how the Samsung Milky way S6 should look

All metallic, all awesome

Post-obit a recent spurt of leaks, Samsung has just introduced two new metallic handsets, the Milky way A5 and the lower-specc'ed Galaxy A3, which information technology says are its slimmest smartphones ever.

And indeed the Galaxy A5 arrives at simply six.7mm thin, with a 5-inch display, a ane.2GHz quad-cadre processor, 2GB of RAM and a 15-megapixel rear camera.

Meanwhile, the Galaxy A3 is slightly thicker at half dozen.9mm with a smaller 4.5-inch screen, and boasts the same processor along with a more meagre 1GB of RAM and an 8MP camera.

Samsung'due south continuing to bang the selfie drum by giving both phones 5-megapixel forepart-facing cameras. They too both run Android KitKat, equally you'd expect.

Simply what's most important is merely how expert these phones look, the A5 in particular with its full metal torso. Samsung is finally getting its act together when it comes to design, and this next step in the evolution process gives the states a better idea of what the Samsung Galaxy S6 may look like.

Following some pretty disappointing financials this week, Samsung promised to improve and streamline its smartphone portfolio, and these new handsets are the outset promising sign of what's to come.

Still a Galaxy abroad

Samsung'southward obviously targeting People's republic of china in an endeavor to target the rise power of Xiaomi, but this means the rest of us might have to expect a while longer.

Samsung says the phones will launch in "select markets including Communist china" but Samsung Uk has told us that it "will announce UK availability of both products in due course", so at to the lowest degree we know nosotros're almost certainly getting it in the UK and probably the United states of america and Australia too.

It might merely have a lilliputian more than time to go hither.

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