Samsung Galaxy J2 Core


The Samsung Galaxy J2 Core is a smartphone manufactured by Samsung Electronics. It was released in August 2018 with its operating system Android 8.1.0 "Oreo". It is the first Android Go based phone by Samsung.

Specifications

Hardware

The J2 Core is equipped with a 5.0 inch IPS 540 × 960 qHD display. It is powered by an Exynos 7570 SoC including a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU with 1.4 GHz, an ARM Mali-T720 GPU with 1 GB RAM and either 8 or 16 GB internal storage. It is available in Black, Gold and Lavender. A slightly refreshed version was announced in April 2020 with no 8 GB option and a new Blue color replacing Lavender.

Software

The J2 Core ships with Android 8.1.0 "Oreo" and Samsung's Experience UI. It's a special version named Go edition which is developed for low-end smartphones. In January 2019 Samsung announced an update to Android 9.0 "Pie" including One UI which became available in April 2019.