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We have stepped into the month of the Galaxy S24 launch. According to leaks, Samsung will unveil the new flagships on January 17. It will follow up with an A-series premium mid-range smartphone a couple of months later. We are talking about the Galaxy A55, which has been subject to a handful of leaks lately. Today, we bring exclusive official renders of the phone in three colors, giving you an early look at its design.
Samsung Galaxy A55 exclusive official renders
We have official renders of the Galaxy A55 in Awesome Iceblue, Awesome Lilac, and Awesome Navy colors (shown below the article). For the most part, the phone looks identical to its predecessor, the Galaxy A54. In fact, pretty much every phone Samsung launched in 2023 featured the same design language, including flagships. Not much is changing this year. However, the company appears to be differentiating mid-range models with a new design element.
The so-called Key Island button design has the frame slightly raised around the power and volume keys. Samsung introduced this design with the Galaxy A15 and Galaxy A25 launched last month. The Galaxy A55 features it too. As usual, the physical buttons sit on the right side of the device. The renders show antenna lines on the frame, confirming a metallic build. Rumors have previously hinted at an aluminum frame for the phone.
Apart from that minor bump on the right side, the frame is completely flat with rounded corners. The front and back of the handset are flat too. The rear camera array includes three lenses each protruding out of the back panel separately without a universal camera housing. A side-on view of the handset reveals that the camera lenses protrude substantially from the phone’s body. An LED flash sits next to the vertical camera setup.
On the front, the Galaxy A55 sports a flat display with sizeable bezels. The chin is slightly thicker than the other three sides, so no symmetrical bezels here. The punch hole cutout for the selfie camera sits centrally at the top. Overall, the phone doesn’t look different from the 2023 model when looking from the front or the back. The only noticeable design change is the small bump on the frame.
Samsung’s Exynos 1480 chipset will power this phone
The Galaxy A55 will be powered by Samsung’s in-house Exynos 1480 processor. The new chipset is expected to be a 4nm solution featuring four high-performance CPU cores clocked at 2.75GHz and four efficiency cores at 2.05GHz. The CPU is paired with the Xclipse 530 GPU, a custom GPU that Samsung co-developed with AMD based on its Radeon graphics technology used in PC graphics and flagship Exynos chips.
Samsung will ship the Galaxy A55 in an 8GB RAM variant, likely with 256GB of onboard storage. There may be more storage configurations, though. The device will run Android 14 out of the box, with One UI 6.1 on top. The rest of the specs, including the camera, display, and battery details, are still under wraps. We expect more leaks about the phone in the coming weeks, particularly after the Galaxy S24 launch later this month.
