Samsung
Galaxy A8 (Japan Ver.)
Samsung
has been hard at work, reimagining its elegant "A" series lineup for
2016. The Galaxy A3, A5 and A7 were all made official at the beginning at the
month and all that was left for a full refresh of the lineup was the A8.
Yesterday, the Korean giant made a new Galaxy A8 announcement, but, sadly, it
is not the 2016 model we have all been waiting for, but rather a Japanese
version of the existing A8.
The
local variant has the Snapdragon 615 SoC swapped for the Samsung-made Exynos
5433. Some Galaxy A8 versions did come with the Exynos 5430, but this is a
slightly different version of the chip.
Other
differences include a 2 grams increase in weight, we doubt it will be noticeable
in any way. The rest of the specs sheet remains unchanged.
The
Japanese Galaxy A8 offers a 5.7 inch Super AMOLED display, 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB
of onboard storage. The camera setup includes a 16 MP main shooter and a 5 MP one
on the front. Connectivity includes Cat.6 LTE, dual-band Wi-Fi ac, Bluetooth
v4.1 and GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS/ BDS (market dependant). The Japanese version
also has VoLTE and WiMAX 2+ thrown in for good measure.