Samsung is already working on the Galaxy A36, which will apparently be the successor to the Galaxy A35 which started in March. Today, an A36 prototype ran quite a few tests on Geekbench and this revealed the fact that Samsung is testing the device with Android 15 on board.
This is a version that Google launched for its pixels yesterday but which Samsung is only expected to be released next year with the arrival of Galaxy S25 family in January. This probably means that the Galaxy A36 will land only after that, if it is to run Android 15 from day one, which is hinted at by the fact that it is being tested with this version.
Given that the lower class Galaxy A16 5Gwhich it became official 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 will be powered by either Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 or Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 based on its GPU. The prototype tested today had 6GB of RAM, but there may be more options at launch. The Galaxy A35 ran Samsung’s Exynos 1380 SoC, so the A36 switches its chipset vendor, which is interesting.
