The Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro uses the Snapdragon 652 that is interesting processor from Qualcomm. Despite the renaming confusion, the Snapdragon 652 uses four Cortex A72 and four Cortex A53 cores. The Cortex A72 cores will work up to 1.8GHz while the Cortex A53 will have a lower clock, at an unannounced speed.

Qualcomm also uses Adreno 510 graphics. Hexagon DSP and has camera support up to 21 Megapixels. The Snapdragon 652 was announced last year as the Snapdragon 620.

The Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro has 4GB LPDDR3 memory (the non-pro has 3GB) and runs the latest Android 6.0.1. The Samsung Galaxy A9 is shipping with Android 5.1 and will probably upgrade to 6.0 after the launch. The phone has a 16 megapixel rear camera and 8 megapixel front camera. Samsung Galaxy A9 comes with 13 megapixel camera, giving a Pro version some edge.

The new PRO version of the phone still uses a large 6 inch super AMOLED screen with 1920x1080 FHD resolution. It also has an X8 modem capable of Cat 7 300 Mbit downloads and a 00 Mbit upload. There is micro SD card support and 32GB RAM.

We are glad to see that this mainstream performance device starts  with 32GB as 16GB is simply too small. The battery size is unknown but we hope that the device has the 4000 mAh like the non-pro version if not larger.

There will be a lot of phones coming with Snapdragon 650, 652 to take on the Helio X10, P10 mainstream phones which are about to flood the market.