2017 edition of the Samsung Galaxy A series

This move marks Samsung's first product launch since the discontinuation of the Galaxy Note 7 back in October 2016.

[1] Following the unveiling, Samsung announced that they would sell up to 20 million smartphones, targeting Western and Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

[2][3] This was the last Galaxy A series to use the TouchWiz user interface, before being superseded by Samsung Experience and One UI in later models.

This series' Galaxy A3 runs Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow with TouchWiz user interface right out-of-the-box.

Just like its predecessors, the Galaxy A3 (2017) was not made available in the United States, China, Malaysia and India.

Unlike its predecessors, the Galaxy A7 will[needs update] not be coming to the United States, Western and Central Europe as well as Caucasus countries and China.

Svet Kompjutera praised A3 and A5's build quality and performance, noting that the difference in speed between the two is not great in everyday usage.