Samsung Galaxy J4 with Android Oreo launched in India, price starts at ₹9,990

Aiming to strengthen its position in India's hot budget smartphone segment, Samsung on Friday introduced a new device in its Galaxy J series with the launch of Galaxy J4 at a starting price of ₹9,990. The smartphone will be available in blue, black and gold colours.

"With 60 million plus devices sold and counting, Galaxy J series is India's most popular smartphone series owing to the millennial focused meaningful innovation," said Sumit Walia, Director, Mobile Business, Samsung India.

The base model of Galaxy J4 with 2GB RAM plus 16GB storage is priced at ₹9,990. Galaxy J4 also comes with 3GB RAM and 32GB storage which carries a price tag of ₹11,990. Both variants of Galaxy J4 comes with expandable storage up to 256GB.

Samsung Galaxy J4 specifications, features

Samsung Galaxy J4 features a 5.5-inch HD super AMOLED display. Under the hood of the smartphone runs an Exynos quad-core processor clocked at 1.4GHz. In the photography department, Galaxy J4 sports a 13-megapixel rear camera with f/1.9 aperture.

Up front, it houses a 5-megapixel camera with f/2.2 aperture for selfies. The smartphone also provides an adjustable front LED flash, which helps to capture better selfies by adjusting the LED flash as per the ambient lighting conditions. On the software front, Galaxy J4 runs Android 8.0 Oreo. The smartphone is fuelled by a 3,000 mAh battery.

"Galaxy J4 comes packed with a host of new innovations like Advanced Memory Management, adjustable front LED Flash and Samsung Mall that makes it perfect for millennials," Walia added.

The Advanced Memory Management is Samsung's "Make for India" feature which helps consumers save memory space by automatically directing image and video content from social media applications to the external memory card. It also helps in keeping the device memory clean by deleting duplicate images received on social media messengers.

It comes pre-loaded with Samsung Mall that lets users shop by clicking a picture of the desired product and automatically getting results for the item across popular e-commerce platforms. There's also an App Pair feature which opens a consumer defined pair of apps simultaneously in two multi windows, enabling easier multitasking.