The A8 (2018) comes with the infinity display treatment, which means no physical hardware buttons up front and rear-positioned fingerprint scanner. So the new Galaxy A8 features Full HD+ displays with a resolution of 1080 by 2220 pixels weighing at 5.6-inches. The hardware inside is an Exynos SOC joined by 4GB of RAM.
| Body |
Dimensions |
149.9 x 70.8 x 7.7 mm (5.90 x 2.79 x 0.30 in) |
| Weight |
159 g (5.61 oz) |
| Build |
Front glass, aluminum body |
| SIM |
Single SIM (Nano-SIM) or Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) |
| |
- Samsung Pay |
| Display |
Type |
Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors |
| Size |
5.6 inches, 79.6 cm2 (~75.0% screen-to-body ratio) |
| Resolution |
720 x 1480 pixels, 18.5:9 ratio (~294 ppi density) |
| Multitouch |
Yes |
| Platform |
OS |
Android 8.0 (Oreo) |
| Chipset |
Exynos 7870 Octa (14 nm) |
| CPU |
Octa-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A53 |
| GPU |
Mali-T830 MP1 |
| Memory |
Card slot |
microSD, up to 256 GB (dedicated slot) |
| Internal |
64 GB, 4 GB RAM or 32 GB, 3 GB RAM |
| Main Camera |
Single |
16 MP, f/1.7, 26mm (wide), PDAF |
| Features |
LED flash, panorama, HDR |
| Video |
1080p@30fps |
| Sound |
Alert types |
Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones |
| Loudspeaker |
Yes |
| 3.5mm jack |
Yes |
| |
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- Dolby Atmos sound (headphones only) |
| Comms |
WLAN |
Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, WiFi Direct, hotspot |
| Bluetooth |
4.2, A2DP, LE |
| GPS |
Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS |
| NFC |
Yes (optional) |
| Radio |
FM radio |
| USB |
microUSB 2.0 |
| Features |
Sensors |
Fingerprint (rear-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass |
| Messaging |
SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM |
| Browser |
HTML5 |
| |
- ANT+ support
- MP4/WMV/H.265 player
- MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+/FLAC player
- Photo/video editor
- Document viewer |
| Battery |
|
Non-removable Li-Ion 3000 mAh battery |
| Misc |
Colors |
Black, Gold, Blue, Lavender |
| SAR EU |
0.49 W/kg (head) 1.39 W/kg (body) |
| Price |
About 200 EUR |
