Samsung Galaxy J1 is an Android smartphone developed by Samsung Electronics and was released in February 2015. The phone has 4 GB of storage, 512 MB of RAM, and a Dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 CPU.

As of September 2015, phones that have Verizon Wireless came with Android 5.1.1 Lollipop. While phones that had an older version such as Android 4.4.4 KitKat (which it used to come with) would have an update for Lollipop.^[4]

The Samsung Galaxy J1 has 512 MB of RAM while also having 4 GB of storage.^[5] The phone also has a slot for a microSD card up to 256 gigabytes, and has DualSIM card support.^[6] The rear camera's resolution is 5 megapixels, while the front camera is 2 megapixels and both travel at 30 fps.^[5] It has a CPU of Dual-Core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7, a GPU of Mali-400, and an SOC of Exynos 3457 and Spreadtrum.

The Samsung Galaxy J1 was announced on January 2015, then released the month after.^[5] In October 2015, the Samsung Galaxy J1 Ace was released.^[7] In January 2016, a 2016 edition of the smartphone was released.^[8][9] The month after that, the Samsung Galaxy J1 Nxt was released.^[10] One month later, the Samsung Galaxy J1 Mini was released, and 4 months later, the Ace Neo edition of the phone was unveiled.^[11][12] Then in November of the same year, the Samsung Galaxy J1 Nxt Prime was presented in stores.^[13] Finally, the Samsung Galaxy J1 Mini Prime was unveiled and released on December 2016, and the Samsung Galaxy J2 became its main successor.^[14][15]