Samsung’s new midrange Galaxy A55 arrives with improved security and materials
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Samsung's Galaxy A55, which reportedly features a metal frame. | Image: Samsung Samsung's new Galaxy A55 and Galaxy A35 are the latest additions to its midrange A-series lineup, which often contain the company's bestselling phones. Both the new A55 and A35 include Samsung's Knox Vault, a security feature designed to protect sensitive data like your lock screen credentials and encryption keys from software and hardware attacks by physically isolating them from the phones' main processors and memory. The company boasts that this is the first time the security feature has appeared on its A-series devices.
The Galaxy A55 specifically also includes a metal frame, Android Police reports, which would be an upgrade over the plastic used in last year's Galaxy A54.
Samsung has announced European pricing for the two models,...