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Samsung India has been sending out invites for a press event tomorrow, which will be held at India's financial capital of Mumbai. The tagline reads, “an exclusive preview of the latest innovations that bring a confluence of Style and Technology”; which makes us believe it is nothing but an event for the launch of the anticipated Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5 in India. In fact, we had also spoken about a possible release just a couple days back. The phones have been around for a while, but as it stands, they're yet to debut on the Indian smartphone scene.
Both devices are fairly mid-range, or even entry-level, depending upon your perspective. However, it isn't the specs sheet that Samsung is using to sell the devices, but rather the metal build which didn't feature on such phones prior to this. The Galaxy A3 comes with a 4.5-inch 540 x 960p Super AMOLED panel with 1.5GB RAM, an 8 mega-pixel rear camera and a 5 mega-pixel front facing camera. The larger of the two, aka the Galaxy A5 comes with a 5-inch Super AMOLED panel with a 720p resolution, and features 2GB of RAM. Both devices are powered by the same 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 SoC. Potential buyers in India can expect the devices to be priced at INR equivalents of $350 and $450 for the Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5 respectively.
