Samsung presents its thinnest smartphone to date

Samsung has presented its thinnest smartphone to date. The Galaxy A8 has a 5.9mm thick metal housing, making it thinner than the 6.3mm thick Galaxy A7. Despite this, the manufacturer has received a battery of 3050mAh.

The Galaxy A8, which Samsung unveiled in China, is 15.8×7.7 cm in size and has a 5.7″ screen. The device therefore has hardly any bezels on the sides. Only the Aquos Crystal series from Sharp has thinner bezels. The screen covers 74 percent of the front of the device. At 5.9mm, it’s Samsung’s thinnest smartphone yet, but the thinnest smartphone on the market yet is the Vivo X5 Max at 4.75mm.

The device has a metal housing, like the entire Galaxy A series. In that series, Samsung previously announced the A3, A5 and A7, with 4.5″, 5″ and 5.5″ screens respectively. The 5.7″ Galaxy A8 has a full-HD screen of the Super Amoled screen. type.

The processor is most likely a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615, although Samsung itself only wants to say that it is an octacore with maximum clock speeds of 1.5GHz for the fastest processor cores and 1GHz for the more economical units. The battery has a capacity of 3050mAh, a lot more than the 2550mAh battery in the Galaxy S6.

The device has a fingerprint scanner and has a 16-megapixel rear camera with a maximum aperture of f/2.2 and an f/1.9 front camera with a maximum resolution of five megapixels. The device will cost 3499 yuan in China, converted and including VAT, that would currently be around 622 euros.