Samsung Galaxy J8 Specs and Price

Among the smartphones displayed in the launch event held in India comes the Samsung Galaxy J8. The new smartphone is a lesser model in terms of specs in comparison to the Samsung Galaxy S Light Luxury. However, it is quite a nice device itself with good aesthetics and decent hardware. It is will also cost you much less and is a perfect blend of nice features as well as the compromises that comes with the price cut.

Samsung Galaxy J8 Key Specs and Features

• 6.0-inch, Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 1480 X 720 pixels (274 ppi)
• Android 8.0 Oreo
• Octa-core Qualcomm SDM450 Snapdragon 450 CPU with 4GB RAM
• 64GB built-in storage, up to 256GB built-in storage
• Dual 16MP + 5MP rear camera and a 16MP front camera
• 4G LTE
• Fingerprint sensor (rear)
• 3, 500mAh non removable Li-ion battery

Design and Display

The Samsung Galaxy J8 would surely qualify has a well built smartphone despite its polycarbonate casing. It follows suite with a tall slim 18:9 build accentuated by narrow bezels. Quite like the bulk of 2018 smartphones, the navigation buttons are located on screen thanks to the reduced bezels approach.At the back, the cameras, flash and fingerprint sensor are arrange like on the Samsung Galaxy S9.

Moving on to the display screen, there is really not a great set up here with just an HD+ to get by. However, it is quite large which will stretch the pixels much thinner with a size of 6.0-inch and at 1480 X 720 pixels resolution. An added advantage is that it is a Super AMOLED screen and besides a pixel density of 274 ppi is not that bad.

Battery and Camera

In terms of battery power, the Samsung Galaxy receives a little bump from the 3, 000mAh of the Samsung Galaxy S Light Luxury. Instead, it has a 3, 500mAh which doesn’t really guarantee more lasting usage time but at least it is an increase in capacity. It is also unclear whether it has fast charge, however, it is most likely to have this feature.

Taking pictures is in the hands of dual rear camera and a single camera at the front. The twin camera at the rear consists of a 16MP primary sensor paired with a 5MP camera. The front has a similar arrangement but only a single 16MP camera accompanied by its own flash.

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Hardware and Software

The Samsung Galaxy J8 goes for a more modest Qualcomm chipset. Having eight cores, the Qualcomm SDM450 Snapdragon 450 runs at 1.8GHz which is fair enough. Also, there is an Adreno 506 GPU taking care of everything graphics.

On the good side, it had the same internal memory with the higher Light Luxury model with 4GB RAM and a 64GB built-in storage too. However, expansion limit varies from 400GB to 256GB in the Samsung Galaxy J8 while both runs on Android 8.0 Oreo.

Samsung Galaxy J8 Pricing and Availability

The Samsung Galaxy J8 is available in a number online stores and retail outlets for about 102, 000 Naira depending on your location and the deal.