Samsung Galaxy J2 review: Little things

Performance

Samsung equipped the Galaxy J2 with an Exynos 3475 chipset. It features a quad-core Cortex-A7 CPU alongside a Mali-T720 GPU. Both of them are dated pieces of hardware, but they get the job done fairly well. The 1GB of RAM is put to good use by the Android 5.1.1 OS and apps load relatively snappy.

The Cortex-A7 CPU is running at 1.3GHz - not it's maximum clock speed of 1.6GHz - but it managed to go through our CPU benchmarks okay. The Mali-T720 GPU was lagging behind compared to the more latest offerings on the market, but that's to be expected.

GeekBench 3

Higher is better

• Lenovo K3 Note
  4067
• Meizu m2 note
  2649
• Moto G (3rd gen) 2GB of RAM
  1589
• Samsung Galaxy J5
  1418
• Sony Xperia E3
  1118
• Samsung Galaxy J2
  1083

AnTuTu 5

Higher is better

• Lenovo K3 Note
  46283
• Meizu m2 note
  32054
• Moto G (3rd gen) 2GB of RAM
  24293
• Samsung Galaxy J5
  21422
• Samsung Galaxy J2
  20344
• Sony Xperia E3
  18336

GFX 2.7 T-Rex (1080p offscreen)

Higher is better

• Lenovo K3 Note
  15
• Meizu m2 note
  12
• Samsung Galaxy J2
  8.1
• Sony Xperia E3
  5.9
• Moto G (3rd gen) 2GB of RAM
  5.3
• Samsung Galaxy J5
  5.2

GFX 2.7 T-Rex (onscreen)

Higher is better

• Sony Xperia E3
  17.1
• Lenovo K3 Note
  15
• Meizu m2 note
  12
• Moto G (3rd gen) 2GB of RAM
  9.7
• Samsung Galaxy J5
  9.3
• Samsung Galaxy J2
  3.6

Basemark X

Higher is better

• Lenovo K3 Note
  5656
• Samsung Galaxy J5
  4034
• Meizu m2 note
  3946
• Moto G (3rd gen) 2GB of RAM
  1866
• Samsung Galaxy J2
  1683
• Sony Xperia E3
  1577

Basemark OS 2.0

Higher is better

• Lenovo K3 Note
  984
• Meizu m2 note
  673
• Samsung Galaxy J2
  358

Basemark OS 2.0 (single-core)

Higher is better

• Lenovo K3 Note
  2990
• Samsung Galaxy J2
  1805
• Meizu m2 note
  1709

Basemark OS 2.0 (multi-core)

Higher is better

• Lenovo K3 Note
  24538
• Meizu m2 note
  8105
• Samsung Galaxy J2
  7295

We remained pleased with the phone's web browsing capabilities. The phone comes with both Google Chrome and Samsung's own web browser. We ran Kraken and BrowserMark on the latter and the results are quite positive. The Galaxy J2 managed to score very respectably due to its newer Android version.

Kraken 1.1

Lower is better

• Lenovo K3 Note
  10712
• Moto G (3rd gen) 2GB of RAM
  12272
• Samsung Galaxy J5
  14435
• Meizu m2 note
  14462
• Sony Xperia E3
  16059
• Samsung Galaxy J2
  16500
• Microsoft Lumia 535 Dual SIM
  26981
• Microsoft Lumia 532
  27156

BrowserMark 2.1

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy J2
  2235
• Lenovo K3 Note
  1554
• Moto G (3rd gen) 2GB of RAM
  1359
• Samsung Galaxy J5
  1236
• Sony Xperia E3
  1044
• Meizu m2 note
  656
• Microsoft Lumia 532
  526
• Microsoft Lumia 535 Dual SIM
  480

The Galaxy J2 doesn't top any charts when it comes to performance, but that's to be expected. However, it will not leave you hanging and it actually offers quite an enjoyable user experience. Hopefully, the phone gets the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update for an even more refined experience.