Samsung Galaxy A8 gains attention as it confirms release. The thinnest phone to date exclusively releases in China.
Galaxy A8 made its official release after speculations from a Chinese website and even a live-demo surfacing abounding in the internet.
The metal curved body encasing with aluminum back cover boasted the new external features of Galaxy A8. The handset measures in thinckness of 5.9mm (0.23in). Display handset features a Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection, boasting a 5.7-inch Super AMOLED capacitive touch screen with a Full HD resolution of 1080 x 1920. Modestly weighing in at 151 grams or 5.3 ounces, Galaxy A8 showcases similar A-series are conveniently light.
The new handset is equipped with Adreno 405 GPU and runs under a 2.5 octa-core Snapdragon 715 processor. Two variants are available for built-in internal storage, which are 16GB and 32 GB, both having fixed 2GB RAM. Dual-SIM functionality operated in the SIM 2 slot is outfitted as support external MicroSD expansion of 128GB.
Flaunting a camera setup of 16MP main shooter, GSM Arena said that previous rumors indicate of a dissimilar setup with S6 and S6 edge. Reduced pixel size of 1.0 µm is a facet built on Samsung mobiles. The handset runs with OIS and a bright f/1.9 aperture.
The ability to record videos of up to 1080p at 30 frames per second is power-driven from rear-facing camera shooter of 16MP and 5 megapixels as being adjoined for a front-facing camera.
Connectivity for Samsung Galaxy offers 4G LTE, dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS with Glonass and Beidou support, as well as NFC. Galaxy A8 is powered by a 3,050 mAh battery with a promising standby of 304 hours.
Featured Current color options include white, black and gold.
A representative of Samsung told BBC News of that Samsung Galaxy A8 debuts will remain an exclusive release for China and Singapore.
According to Tech.firstpost, Galaxy A8 is priced at 3,199 yuan in its initial release in China and Singapore. China primarily experiences the launching of Galaxy A8 before its Western tech industry. Welcoming the new model for Samsung, China is said to becoming an incredibly important niche for the major manufacturers.
Valuewalk reported of China's tech market as population for selling more iPhones compared to United States. Similar to its counterpart, Samsung is unleashing high specifications and powerful features.
Followers of the mobile marketplace have come to associate the Samsung Galaxy range with incredibly specs will be available with more updates.
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