Spreadtrum Communications has announced that its quad-core LTE mobile chipset, the SC9830i, has been adopted for a new Samsung smartphone slated for launch shortly.

The Samsung Galaxy J2 (2016)/ SM-J210F/DS is powered by Spreadtrum's SC9830i chips. The model runs Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow OS, and is equipped with a Super AMOLED HD display, 8-megapixel primary camera and 5-megapixel front camera, and 2GB RAM/16GB storage.

Spreadtrum indicated its SC9830i SoC solution consists of a 28nm quad-core 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A7 5-mode (TDD-LTE/FDD-LTE/TDSCDMA/WCDMA/HSPA(+)/GSM/GPRS/EDGE) baseband chip, SC2723M power management chip, SR3593S RF chip and SC2331S 3-in-1 connectivity chip.

Spreadtrum previously disclosed its SC9830i SoC had been adopted by Samsung for its Galaxy Tab A7.0-series tablets, which features a HD (1280 by 800 pixels) IPS display and comes with Android 5.1 Lollipop.