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Samsung Galaxy A8 Review

    See other variants reviews Score: 67.9 / 100

Samsung Galaxy A8 is a complete device launched many years ago, having a huge 5.7" multi-touch display, a 1.5 GHz processor, a 16 mega-pixels back side camera and a 5 mega-pixels front side camera. That's all? No, it's only the shortest summary in the world.

Talking about its construction materials, this device is majorly made of metal; metal. This phone is offerred in 3 colors, gray, white and gold. The Samsung Galaxy A8 is just 0.23 inches thick, making its way into the thinnest phones podium. The A8 is only 6.22" long, but it manages to hold a 5.7" screen. This phone is much lighter than what you would expect from a cellphone this size.

Samsung decided to build this cellphone using a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 8939 system chip, packing a great performance 1.5 gigahertz processor with a huge 2 GB of RAM memory. This cellphone comes with a big 32 GB internal memory and a slot for external memory cards, which allows you to install hundreds of apps and even the heaviest games currently available without thinking about how much storage capacity is left.

The Samsung Galaxy A8 includes an awesome 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) 5.7-inches display, giving this device a very detailed graphic quality. This display uses Super AMOLED capacitive technology, and can detect multi touch gestures.

This cellphone has wifi connection (but it can't provide it to other devices acting as a hotspot). The A8 works with a SIM card to connect to GSM networks and it can use both CDMA and GSM carriers.

This cellphone has two cameras, a 16 mega-pixels back side camera and a 5 MP front camera. It also films 1920x1080 Full HD videos. In addition, this phone's camera also features a few interesting characteristics like flash, face detection shooting, auto-focus, geo tagging and smile detection shooting.

This cellphone comes with a 3050 mAh inmense replaceable battery that provides this cellphone an incredibly long battery duration.

The A8 also comes with a handful of cool features as NFC, Bluetooth (enables communication with other bluetooth cellphones and accessories) and GPS, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

Samsung offers this phone for $ 285, which is expensive for a device this level. No matter if you are a photography fan, want a device for playing games, will use this cellphone majorly for social networks or are looking for a work phone, this phone is a good choice for you.



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Specifications

Device Type:Phone
Brand:Samsung
Operating System (OS):Android 5.1
Variant:See other variants reviews
Also Known As:Samsung SM-A8000
Dimensions:6.22 x 3.02 x 0.23 inchesMetric15.8 x 7.67 x 0.58 cmImperial
Weight:5.33 ouncesMetric151.1 gImperial
Colors:Gold, Gray and White
Materials:Metal; metal
Release date:2015-07-14
Price:$ 285.00

Display

Screen Type:Super AMOLED (16M colors)
Size:5.7 inchesMetric14.5 cmImperial
Resolution:1080 x 1920 pixels (Full HD)
Pixel density:386 pixels per inchMetric151.97 pixels per cmImperial
Touch screen:Capacitive, Multi-touch

Hardware

Chipset:Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 8939
Processor:ARM Cortex-A53, 64-bit (Single-Core 1500 MHz)
RAM Memory:2 GB (800 MHz)
Graphics Processor:Adreno 405
Internal Memory:32 GB
SD Card Slot:microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC (up to 128 GB)

Battery

Removable:Yes
Capacity:3050 mAh
Stand-by Time:304 hours

Camera

Back camera:16 megapixels
    Aperture:f/1.90
    Flash:Yes
Front camera:5 megapixels
Max video resolution:1920 x 1080 (Full HD)
Camera features:Auto-Focus, Face Detection Shooting, Geo Tagging and Smile Detection Shooting

Networks

Wi-Fi:Yes
SIM Card Type:SIM
LTE (4G) Bands:1800 (band 3), 2100 (band 1)
UMTS Bands:800, 850, 900, 1900, 2100
GSM Bands:850, 900, 1800, 1900
CDMA Bands:800
Technologies:GSM and CDMA

Other Features

Bluetooth:Version 4.1
GPS:Yes
NFC (Near Field Communication):Yes
Sensors:Accelerometer, Compass, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor