Samsung has finally officially announced the Samsung Galaxy A8; the phablet sized device is the thinnest smartphone yet from the company (at 5.9mm thin) and has been listed on the company’s China website page.
The Samsung Galaxy A8 features a 5.7-inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. Like other Samsung Galaxy A series, has narrow screen bezels, comes with a metal uni-body design and has a fingerprint sensor on its home button.
Under the hood, it is backed by an Octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor clocked at 1.5GHz with Adreno 405 GPU and 2GB of RAM. There is a choice of either 16GB or 32GB space of internal storage with an option to expand up to 128GB via a microSD card.
The Galaxy A8 has the same camera features as the Samsung Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge with its rear facing 16MP camera with f/1.9 aperture and LED flash. The front selfie camera is a 5MP snapper with 120-degree wide-angle lens.
Connectivity option on the Samsung Galaxy A8 includes – Bluetooth 4.1, NFC, Bluetooth 4.1, Dual Band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, 4G LTE, GPS/GLONASS/Beidou and USB 2.0. The full dimensions stand at – 158 x 76.8 x 5.9mm, weighs 151 grams, runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop OS and is backed by a 3050mAh battery.
Depending on the market, it would come with a Single SIM slot and Dual SIM slot for markets like China, India and maybe Africa. There is no word on pricing yet, no details on global rollout yet but wherever it launches it would be available in Black, White and Gold colour options.
