Samsung Galaxy A8 (2016) with 3GB RAM, 16MP camera goes official

Samsung has introduced the 2016 edition of Galaxy A8 in its home market South Korea. The handset sports a metal unibody design that measures 7.2mm around the waist and weighs just 182g. It runs Android Marshmallow, supports Samsung Pay out of the box, has fingerprint sensor embedded into the home button. It brings a few upgrades over its predecessor and uses in-house Exynos chipset instead of Qualcomm.

The Samsung Galaxy A8 (2016) comes with 5.7-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels Always-on Super AMOLED display and gets in-house octa-core Exynos 7420 processor w/ Mali T760 GPU, 3GB RAM and 32GB internal storage, which can be expanded via microSD card.

It has 16MP rear camera with LED flash and f/1.9 aperture and 8MP selfie camera at the front. For connectivity there's 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS/GLONASS and NFC. It is fueled by 3300mAh battery. 

The Samsung Galaxy A8 (2016) is priced at 649,000 won ($588 | Rs. 39,000) and will be avaiolable for pre-oreder from in Korea from local operator SK Telecom starting October 1. It comes in Blue, Grey and Pink hues.

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