Samsung Galaxy A8 Review By PhoneArena

Hey, what's up Internet Victor with foundering here and today, I want to talk about the Samsung Galaxy, a series Samsung introduced the series in early 2015 with the idea of countering the attack it faced from China with very low, affordable price. Affordable phones from China that were selling like hotcakes Samsung came up with the series as a series of slim metal phones that have a nice visual appeal. It released the galaxy a3 galaxy, a5 and galaxy a7. Now we have the fourth device in the galaxy, a series: the Samsung Galaxy a8, it's a 5.7 inch phablet of a phone is the largest in the series, and it features a similarly slim and stylish visual style with the metal frame and a very lightweight overall, very compact for its size dimensions. How does it perform? Does it have a good camera? What's the battery life? Those are the questions that you probably won't answer it. Let's get right to it and first, let's start with the design of the galaxy 8.

This is one impressively slim device. You can just check out how thin it is. Five point: nine millimeters and that's an aluminum frame. Thirty aluminum frames with chambered edges a stylish design on the back. You have what seems like a plastic back cover, see the dual sign here, it's a dual SIM phone: you can use it either as a dual SIM phone or you can use the second SIM card slot as a micro SD card.

In this case you can use it as a single sim, with micro, SD card slot or as a dual SIM device with no micros. So what about the actual design now up front? You have a very thin side bezel. So this is a 5.7 inch device, but the slim side, bezels that are just one point: two millimeters make it fit in a form factor, that's more akin to that of a 5.5 inch device. It's a bit taller, though, so it definitely sticks out of pockets, and it easily falls out of your pocket, especially when you're sitting in a car. For instance, it's happened to us on a couple of occasions and have the large physical key here that also acts as a fingerprint scanner, and now we don't have it registered.

But when we try to use this fingerprint scanner, you should register it a couple different angles, because if you register it is just one, it won't register those other angles that you typically unlock your phone at the physical keys. You have the lock key on the right, and it's a metal key that is click and very, has a very nice feel to it, and the same can be said about the volume keys right here on the bottom. You have a microwave, the charging port, 3.5 millimeter headset jack, and on top you have the microphone. Speaking of the display have a 5.7 inch, Super AMOLED screen with a resolution of 1080 by 1920 pixels. That's a Full HD resolution on the screen, and it looks great.

The best thing about it is not just the sharpness. Sharpness is okay, keep in mind it's a diamond pixel arrangement, so you can notice some jagged edges and some civilization when you stare it up on edit up close, but when you speak about colors, which is the most important topic these days since, lets beyond the sharpness, it's pretty much a set question bar at this day and age. Now, when you speak about colors, this is one of the best calibrated displays we've ever tested now. Colors adhere strictly to the RGB color standards and that's the color standard at all, content from for Android and on the web. All the images, all the videos are optimized for this standard, color standard.

So that's why we're happy that Samsung is not adhering to some weird standards. Has the RGB standards with a very, very nice colors that fits perfectly in that range? As you can see, everything looks very pleasing. Brightness is around 313 s, keep in mind it's an AMOLED display, so it adjusts with the change of colors. We found it to be pretty easy to use outdoors, maybe not on the level of top-tier devices, but still plenty usable outdoors. Of course, blacks are pitch black.

You can see that they're very deep and hearing angles are also excellent. The Samsung Galaxy, a chips with Samsung's, Touch ID and android 5.1 and Touch ID, is both a blessing and a bit of a damnation, and we will show you right away what we're talking about. You probably know this interface, and we've enabled gp8 racing here, so we can quickly show you when we're speaking about lag. This is one of the most stutter forms we've encountered in a long while, and you can see this line here- represents everything below it are smooth smoothly perceives frame rates and whenever you have a line as tall as this, it means that the interface has dropped the frame when performing and that's basically stutter that's lag, and this is especially noticeable here in the Flipboard magazine that ships enabled by default, you can see the huge lag that is ever-present here. It's present in all sorts of various applications, even in the multitasking menu.

Even when you try to open the dialer. Sometimes it's a really frustrating to see so much stutter and lag on a device that costs $500. But that's the case, that's what you have with the Samsung Galaxy a8. Now we don't know what the particular reason for this is it touch with itself. That's our guess, or is it the chip? That's powering it.

Now this ships in two versions there is one version powered by the Snapdragon 615 system, chip, which is an outscore chip running on eight cortexes a53 cores, and then you have the Enos 5 OCTA chip that we have right here up for review. Maybe that's the culprit. It's a 20 nanometer chip that should be plenty powerful, and we tested it with some games. So you can take a look at how well it performs in just a second, and so, even though this is not the most demanding game, you can still see that the phone performs fairly well and just push the throttle. You can see those beautiful graphics and the large screen looks well and works.

Well, you can see there is no lag. No stutter in the game flows very smoothly, but the issue seems to be mostly with the interface where there is quite a bit of lag. Now when it comes to storage. This phone comes in a 16 gigabyte and 32 gigabyte models, and we have the 32 gigabyte model for review as we set it's a dual SIM device, and you can see that we've already taken out the two SIM slots, SIM trays rather- and this is the NATO SIM slot for sim one- and here you have the second secondary tray that doubles as either a NATO SIM slot or a micro SD card slot. If you place your micro SD card horizontally, so you have yes, you have expandable storage if you wish.

So what about browsing? Now we have the default internet browser here by Samsung, and let us show you quick preview of how it looks, and this is what the browser looks like. It's probably a familiar fare. You can see that has been updated recently with a new tabs menu, and you can easily switch between tabs, and it's called multitasking here, Multi tabbing. We have phone arena loading here, it's all in the RAM memory. This phone comes with 2 gigs.

So if you just have two tabs, it's easy to switch between tabs. You also have the Google mobile Chrome browser and when it comes to media apps have all the default standard. Samsung's apps, like the gallery that you probably already seem used to nothing new here you can pinch to zoom in and quickly browse through your images. You can also edit an image. This is an image captured on the galaxy a8, and you can do some quick edits.

Here is what we have a very basic and straightforward: the video player that we won't show here. This is a very straightforward affair really, and this is what the music player looks like and that's the maximum loudspeaker volume. Next, let's talk about cameras, kept 16, megapixel camera on the back of this phone, and you have a 5 megapixel camera for selfies on the front. So how do they perform now? One common feature that they do share is a F 1.9 lens and those who do photography know that's a wide lens that allows more lighting, and this is a very good thing for night shots for low-light shots for indoor shots. If you're having a party inside your house, you want to photograph your friends, that's a great thing as it allows more light, and it allows your subjects to kind of stand out.

It's called a both effect. It's not that a huge, hugely pronounced both effect here, but it is present. Here's what the camera interface looks like keep in mind too. You have the quick launch feature here, so you can double-click the home button to quickly start the camera app from any place in the menu and just have a separate video and separate on a movie recording buttons and various modes that you can switch between. You have a pro mode if you want to adjust some settings like is all white balance and exposure manually, but it's really, you don't have to control over shutter speed.

So it's not a full pro mode here, have panorama continuous shots and Asia are here, is set as a different mode. So if you want to take an HDR image, does take a while, but it works fairly well and the result is a very nice high. Dynamic range picture now to the quality of the actual images is good, mostly good. There are some over sharpening happening in some weird incidents, but colors are mostly fine. Now this is a 16 megapixel on snapper that captures images in 4 by 3 aspect ratio, which is great, and the quality of the images is overall good.

They do lack some something a bit in the dynamics, and you might want to use a high dynamic range option here, because the highlights often get burned in concede is in the sample images right here when it comes to video detail, is not a plenty and there's no continuous autofocus features. So that's a bit of a downer. You have to manually chop to select the focus and then select it on the background back in, for the note only happens manually, no continuous autofocus yo. What's up my man? What's good yeah checking out the Samsung Galaxy a8, we should definitely go out for drinks these days. Yep talk to you later, bye, Co quality is great on the Samsung Galaxy a8 now voice is both in the earpiece and, on the other end of the line sound clear loud and in their natural tonality.

So you have no issues in this regard. Another hugely important issue battery like how does the galaxy AAA do now it has a non-removable battery, but it lasts a fairly long time in our test. It's called among the top performers with a score of more than 8 hours and in real life. We use this around the day in huh between recharges. How much does it take to recharge the phone? Now it doesn't support quick charging, so it will take quite a while takes 2 hours and 20 minutes to go from a dead battery to a fully recharged hundred-percent battery on this one.

In conclusion, the Samsung Galaxy AAA is a device that is definitely not cheap. It is just a bit lower price than the highest and phones cost $500 off contract. That's the full retail price, and for this you get the 5.7 inch phone with either Snapdragon 615 system chip or the Enos 5 OCTA. Now this is not a low price. So what are the positives about this device? First, it really is slim impressively, slim impressively light compact for its size.

It looks good its stylish, but for all else we have some major issues here. First, the performance you do expect a $500 phone to perform well at least smoothly, and that's not the case here this. There is a very noticeable stutter all around the interface, even when using it for just daily tasks like scrolling around bringing up the multitasking. All of that comes with a very noticeable stutter. Even the dialer comes up with a bit of a lag, so that's definitely a huge downside for a device.

That's supposed to work great, the're. Not so great of a feature is the camera. Now it captures decent, looking images, but in videos you do expect to have continuous out-of-focus. You don't have slow motion capture, you don't have some fancier options, and it's overall not as great of an experience as you would expect from a $500 phone and then again you have the performance as the biggest downside and when you consider the price and all of that overall, the sense in galaxy 8 really does seem like it has some major issues and some rivals that would be a better fit for this cost and now naturally have devices from China like the Xiaomi Redmi Note 2, which is a great value nearly at three times less expensive phone with a 5.5-inch screen that manages to outperform the galaxy 8 by a huge margin with this Hello x10 processor, and that's one of your alternatives for more alternatives for more detailed review, make sure to go to phone arena. Dot-Com read our full take with benchmarks and all the details.

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