Samsung Galaxy formalizes the A8, its thinnest smartphone – DigitalVersus

Samsung just unveil full details of its Galaxy A8. As expected, this is the thinnest smartphone ever created well by the Korean manufacturer. Presentations.
After weeks of increasingly accurate rumors, the existence of the Samsung Galaxy A8 was little more doubt. Nevertheless, it still lacked the formalization of the beast. What finally came yesterday as the Chinese subsidiary of the Korean manufacturer has finally released all the information regarding its new smartphone. So this is a model that will take its first steps in the Chinese market, before arriving in other countries.

For the rest, if you were paying attention to rumors that Galaxy A8, you already know everything about him. As expected, this is the finest of the many mobile ever created by Samsung, with a thickness of only 5.9 mm. Datasheet hand, it includes most of the features of the already very good Galaxy A7 , improving a little. Thus, the Super AMOLED pushes diagonally up to 5.7 “, while keeping a Full HD 1080p definition. Under the hood is the same chip (SoC) octal-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615, 2GB of RAM, GPU Adreno 405 and a storage capacity of 16 or 32GB, it can be extended via microSD. Everything is animated by Android 5.1 Lollipop on which Samsung has placed his usual TouchWiz interface.
 
 

Except for the screen size and thickness, the Galaxy A8 therefore shows quite close to the A7 Galaxy. Especially it shares the same design. We must turn to the side of the photo sensor stabilized (OIS) to find a difference, since it takes advantage of 16MP, against 13 megapixels for the previous iteration. Note that this is undoubtedly the famous ISOCELL sensor 5 mm thick which has done so much about him lately. However, he always shoots in Full HD 1080p at 30 frames / s. The battery also made a significant leap, from 2600 mAh to 3050 mAh. Finally, a fingerprint reader is also invited to the party.

The set displays remarkably compact for PHABLET . Not only through fairly compact size for this kind of product, with 158 x 76.8 x 5.9 mm for 151 g, but also thanks to an occupancy by the screen 74% of the front panel. The device should be available in three colors to its output: black, white and gold. It is now possible to pre-order in China, at a price yet to be defined. Similarly, no information was available about possible elsewhere than in the former Middle Kingdom. However, there is doubt that it manages Galaxy A8 out elsewhere in the world, like the other models in the Galaxy A range.