We have gotten used to seeing Samsung rebranding its Galaxy A smartphones and selling them as Galaxy M and Galaxy F handsets in some markets. The Galaxy M and Galaxy F lineups aren’t replacements for their Galaxy A counterparts, but alternative options for those on tighter budgets.
If selling similar phones in three different lineups wasn’t enough, Samsung seemingly wants to add a fourth lineup to the mix. To be more precise, the company may be resurrecting an existing lineup: a phone called the Galaxy C55 is on the way, seven years after the last device in the Galaxy C series.
We have known for some time that Samsung has been working on a Galaxy C55, and the phone could be very close to its official launch, as it has made multiple appearances on the Google Play Console, the backend dashboard for Android app developers.
While the Galaxy C55 was first seen on the Google Play Console almost a week ago, the listing we’re talking about here names the device outright. Everything else is the same, once again confirming that the C55 is a rebranded version of the Galaxy M55/F55 for the Chinese market.
Most interestingly, all three handsets will use the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1, a mid-range chip that was announced back in 2022. The Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 didn’t catch on and has only been seen on a handful of devices in nearly two years, and in 2024, it will be making its debut on Samsung-branded smartphones.
The Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 is older than the Exynos 1480, which is used on the Galaxy A55 and has AMD-powered graphics, but it should be perfectly capable of handling all kinds of tasks. In addition to a different chip, it appears the C55, F55, and M55 may not have a variant with 12GB of RAM, though it’s not confirmed at the time of publication.
