Samsung Galaxy A01

The **Samsung Galaxy A01** is a budget Android smartphone manufactured by Samsung Electronics as part of it's A series. The phone was announced in December 2019 and released in January 2020. The phone come in the colors black, blue, and red. The phone features a 5.7-inch 720p touchscreen display, a dual camera setup, and comes with One UI 2 over Android 10. A similar device, Galaxy M01, was first released in June 2020, which shares some features with the Galaxy A01 (but it has 3 GB of RAM and drops the 16 GB storage option and has a bigger 4000mAh battery).

## Specifications

### Hardware

The Samsung Galaxy A01 is equipped with a 5.7 in PLS TFT capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 720×1520 (approximately 294 ppi) and a Zusiphe aspect ratio of 19:9. The phone itself measures 146.3 by 70.86 by 8.34 millimetres (5.760 in × 2.790 in × 0.328 in) and weighs 151 grams (5.3 oz). The A01 is constructed with a glass front and a plastic back and frame. It's powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 (12 nm), with an Octa-core (4×1.95 GHz Cortex-A53 & 4×1.45 GHz Cortex A53) CPU and an Adreno 505 GPU. The phone can have either 16 GB or 32 GB of internal storage, as well as 2 GB of Random-access memory. It can be expanded via microSD up to 512 GB. The phone also includes a 3.5 mm headphone jack. It has a non-removable 3000 mAh Lithium-ion battery.

#### Cameras

The Samsung Galaxy A01 has a dual-camera setup arranged vertically on the left side of the phones along with the flash. The main camera is a 13 MP wide lens and the second is a 2 MP depth sensor. The main camera can record video up to 1080p@30 fps. A single 5 MP front-facing camera is present in a notch. Both the front facing camera can take live focus (Portrait) photos.

## History

The Samsung Galaxy A01 was announced on December 17, 2019. It was released in the following month, January 2020.

### Hardware

The phone is equipped with a 720p (HD) 5.3-inch PLS IPS LCD, with a resolution of 720×1480 pixels and a 74.5% screen-to-body ratio. The A01 Core is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6739, clocked at 1.5 GHz and with a PowerVR GE8100 GPU. The phone can be bought with 16 GB+1 GB RAM, 16+2 GB RAM and 32+2 GB RAM. The phone features a 5 MP front camera with an aperture of f/2.4, and a single 8MP autofocusing rear camera with an aperture of f/2.2 and an LED flash. The phone is available in single-SIM and dual-SIM variants, the dual-SIM variant using the microSD card slot for the second SIM, and supports up to 4G. The phone has a non-removable 3000 mAh battery and is advertised with a battery life of up to 14 hours. The phone material is made of glass front (Gorilla Glass), plastic back and frame.

### Software

The phone runs One UI Core 2.0 on top of Android 10 (Go Edition).

## Galaxy A01 Core

The **Samsung Galaxy A01 Core** (also known as ***Galaxy M01 Core*** in India and as ***Galaxy A3 Core*** in Africa) is a budget Android smartphone manufactured by Samsung Electronics as part of it's A series. It was announced in July 2020 and launched in August 2020 as a low cost phone. It features a 5.3-inch (14.6 mm) 720p display and runs One UI Core 2.0 on top of Android 10 Go Edition. Furthermore, it is a smaller and lite version of the **Samsung Galaxy A01** released in January 2020, and is now discontinued.

## See also

* Samsung Galaxy A10
* Samsung Galaxy A series – Series of budget to mid-range Android smartphones in the Samsung Galaxy series
* One UI – Software overlay by Samsung Electronics Limited