Samsung Z2 is a

smartphone A smartphone is a portable computer device that combines mobile telephone and computing functions into one unit. They are distinguished from feature phones by their stronger hardware capabilities and extensive mobile operating systems, whic ...

produced by

Samsung The Samsung Group (or simply Samsung) ( ko, 삼성 ) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea. It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the ...

. It is the third smartphone to be shipped with the

Tizen Tizen () is a Linux-based mobile operating system backed by the Linux Foundation, mainly developed and used primarily by Samsung Electronics. The project was originally conceived as an HTML5-based platform for mobile devices to succeed MeeGo ...

operating system, after the Samsung Z1 and

Samsung Z3 The Samsung Z3 is a smartphone produced by Samsung. It is the second smartphone to be shipped with the Tizen operating system (after the Samsung Z1). The phone was released on October 21, 2015. The phone was succeeded by the Samsung Z2 Samsung ...

. It was released on August 29, 2016. Its successor the

Samsung Z4 The Samsung Z4 smartphone is a Samsung product released in June 2017. Specifications * 4.50 inch display with 480 x 800 pixels * 1.5 GHz quad-core processor * 1 GB RAM * 8 GB storage (can be expanded up to an additional 128GB via microSD c ...

was released in May 2017.

Specifications

Hardware

The Galaxy Z2 is powered by an

Exynos Exynos, formerly Hummingbird (), is a series of ARM-based system-on-chips developed by Samsung Electronics' System LSI division and manufactured by Samsung Foundry. It is a continuation of Samsung's earlier S3C, S5L and S5P line of SoCs. ...

3475 SoC including a quad-core 1.3 GHz

ARM Cortex-A7 The ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore is a 32-bit microprocessor core licensed by ARM Holdings implementing the ARM architecture#AArch32, ARMv7-A architecture announced in 2011. Overview It has two target applications; firstly as a smaller, simpler, and mor ...

CPU A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, an ...

, an ARM Mali-T720

GPU A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device. GPUs are used in embedded systems, mob ...

and 1 GB

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. The 8 GB internal storage can be upgraded up to 256 GB via

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. It features a 4.7-inch Super

AMOLED AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode, ) is a type of OLED display device technology. OLED describes a specific type of thin-film-display technology in which organic compounds form the electroluminescent material, and active matr ...

display. The rear camera has 5

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with

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, f/2.2 aperture and

autofocus An autofocus (or AF) optical system uses a sensor, a control system and a motor to focus on an automatically or manually selected point or area. An electronic rangefinder has a display instead of the motor; the adjustment of the optical syste ...

; the front camera has 2 megapixels with f/2.2 aperture.

Software

The Galaxy Z2 is shipped with Android 5.1.1 "Lollipop" and Samsung's

TouchWiz TouchWiz was a user interface developed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd with partners, featuring a full touch user interface. It is sometimes incorrectly referred to as an operating system. TouchWiz is used internally by Samsung for smartphones, ...

user interface.

References

External links

Samsung Z2 Official Firmware
Samsung mobile phones Tizen-based devices Mobile phones introduced in 2016 Discontinued smartphones {{samsung-mobile-stub