SAMSUNG GALAXY A8 REVIEW



Samsung launched its premium high end mid range smartphone namely Galaxy A8 (dual sim) in india which is priced @ 32,500/-. It is available is Black, White & Champagne Gold shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is very good. It has corning gorilla glass 3 on front and an all aluminium uni-body and feels great in hands. It is slim at 5.9mm and weighs 151gms. It has 5.7 inch FULL HD Super AMOLED display of resolution 1920 x 1080 with 386ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is great. It runs on Touch Wiz User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is great.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
It has 32GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 128GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like music for songs, a gallery to store all images and videos and a movie player for playing movies respectively which are quite good. FM radio comes pre-installed. Connectivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42.2mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps download & upto 50mbps upload, Wifi a/b/g/n, Wifi dual-band, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt as well as Bluetooth 4.1 LE (Low Energy), NFC & USB OTG support are standard. But lacks IR (Infrared) Blaster. 

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 16MP rear camera with autofocus and Led flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc and other modes as well. The camera clarity is Great overall. Daytime the images are great and has good amount of details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become bit visible visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is quite fine could have been better. It does FULL HD 1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound but lacks HDR having bit-rate of 18mbps respectively and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is very good overall. Daytime the video clarity is Great and has good amount of details respectively but at night video clarity is quite fine. It also has a 5MP front camera for selfe's with 1080p video recording and clarity is quite very good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 4.4.4 Kitkat out of the box. It has an Exynos 5 (5430 Octa) SOC (System On Chip) running a Octa-Core which is a combination of a Quad-Core processor clocked at 1.8 GHZ (ARM Cortex-A15 Architecture) & a Quad-Core processor clocked at 1.3 GHZ (ARM Cortex-A7 Architecture) with 2GB RAM & Mali-T628 MP6 (Hexa-Core) GPU. The performance is Great which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no lag at all.
QUADRANT : 24489.
ANTUTU : 494756.
NENAMARK 2 : 59.4fps.
The international version has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 (MSM8939) 64-Bit SOC (System On Chip) running a Octa-Core which is a combination of a Quad-Core processor clocked at 1.5 GHZ (ARM Cortex-A53 Architecture) & a Quad-Core processor clocked at 1.0 GHZ (ARM Cortex-A53 Architecturewith 2GB RAM and Adreno 405 GPU (550 MHZ Single-Core) GPU. Here too the device's overall performance is great.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Non-removable Li-Ion 3050 mah battery. The battery life is Excellent which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 12:30H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 12:40H.
TALKTIME : upto 26H(2G) / upto 25H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 540 H(2G) / upto 520 H(3G).

PROS
*Excellent build quality and very sleek.
*Excellent display and viewing angle.
*Great Performance.
*Great camera and very good video recording clarity.
*USB OTG & Fingerprint Sensor support
*Pretty good loudspeaker.
*Extra-Ordinary battery life.

CONS
*Non-Removable Battery. 
*No separate Micro SD card slot should be used in place of second sim. 
*No IR Blaster & No NFC (SM-A800Y/Asian model).
*No dedicated camera key.
*Bit pricy. 

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.3/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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