The Samsung Galaxy A17 5G has appeared on a popular benchmarking tool, confirming some of the budget smartphone’s key specs in the process, and suggesting that it’ll address the biggest flaw of its predecessor.
As noted by X user Abhishek Yadav has posted evidence of a phone labelled the Samsung SM-A176B – full name the Samsung Galaxy A17 5G – appearing on the Geekbench tool.
The lowly score of 942 single-core and 2137 multi-core is by the by. This is a budget phone, and one that hasn’t yet been fully optimised, so we’re not expecting outstanding results.
Samsung Galaxy A17 performance and software
More interesting is the reveal of a Exynos 1380 processor. That’s a relatively minor upgrade on the Samsung Galaxy A16 5G’s Exynos 1330.
It’s also the chip that was previously used in the Samsung Galaxy A35 5G, and the Samsung Galaxy A54 5G before that. This continues Samsung’s habit of pushing its older budget chips further down the line as the years roll on.
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Just like the Galaxy A35 5G, that processor comes accompanied by 6GB of RAM – a welcome 50% increase on the Samsung Galaxy A16 5G. We’re not expecting this to be a speed demon (quite clearly, as the Geekbench result shows), but the experience of using it should at least be less halting than the Galaxy A16 5G.
The Geekbench listing also confirms that the Samsung Galaxy A17 5G is running on Android 15, which means it’ll come with One UI 7, not the latest One UI 8, out of the box.
Samsung Galaxy A17 specs
None of this comes as a surprise, of course. We heard all about the Samsung Galaxy A17’s specifications way back in December, courtesy of a leak.
One of the other advances revealed by that previous leak is that the Samsung Galaxy A17 5G will sport a new and improved 8MP ultra-wide camera (up from 5MP).
The 50MP main camera, meanwhile, could receive OIS this time, which would be huge for image clarity – especially in low light. 4K video recording could also join the party.