Samsung Galaxy A8 - 2018
The new Samsung Galaxy A8 come with many surprises, but there are two especially remarkable: the screen “Infinity Display” almost without frames reaches these mid-range models, which also give absolute prominence to selfies.
They do it with a dual camera that this time is not in the back, but in the front . A curious bet that of course differentiates these models from their predecessors and that is reinforced with important issues such as resistance to water and dust.
Get used to the infinite screens
Samsung has been betting on curved screens for some time, but in 2017 we saw how that proposal went further with screens with even fewer frames like the Galaxy S8 / S8 + or Note 8.
In the new Galaxy A8 the curved screen disappears , but what remain are the frames without frames that have conquered a good part of the high range and that will undoubtedly be a constant from now on in the design of mobile phones of all kinds. ranges
In fact in the Galaxy A8 we find an interesting diagonal of 5.6 inches that makes it a more compact device than its older brothers but equally striking for that good screen size.
The resolution of 2,220 x 1,080 pixels confirms the use of the aspect ratio 18.5: 9 that Samsung had been using in other devices, and also maintain the Super AMOLED technology that allows for example having the screen mode Always-on.
Many successes here, and it does not seem particularly worrisome not to have these striking curved screens that provide a differential touch in the design of their more ambitious devices, but which are not as important on a practical level .
Design with a key success: the position of the fingerprint sensor
In this design with softly rounded corners, the tendency is also evident for the materials that seem to be protagonists at this time: glass and metal dominate the entire chassis.
Interestingly, the bet has been changing completely regarding the issue of thickness: in the Galaxy A7 of 2015 it went to a negligible thickness (6.3 mm), while the Galaxy A7 of 2017 were already 7.9 mm thick. In the Galaxy A8 that thickness is even greater, and we have a device almost “chubby” 8.4 mm.
What is really remarkable about this more compact design thanks to that smaller diagonal is nevertheless the new position of the fingerprint sensor, which as in models with “infinite” screens goes to the back. It does so in a much more appropriate position , since Samsung places it below the camera.
This decision finally corrects the criticisms that many of us had made about the footprint sensor of the Galaxy S8 / S8 + and the Note 8, which kept that sensor to the right of the camera, something that made it ergonomically less accessible and caused potential confusions to when to use it
The bokeh effect and the dual camera go to the front
Another of the great tendencies of the last months is that “portrait mode” that has conquered users and manufacturers . The dual cameras that facilitate the application of the famous bokeh effect (focus the object or person in the foreground, blur the background) had so far been integrated in the back most of the time, but that changes in the Galaxy A8.
In fact the rear camera has a single sensor of 16 Mpixels and aperture f / 1.7, while in the front as we say is where we find the dual camera that combines a 16-megapixel sensor with another 8-megapixel , both with aperture f / 1.9.
That will allow selfies lovers to take advantage of that camera to exploit these types of captures, taking advantage of the bokeh effect in these captures. The Dynamic Focus function will allow to adjust that blur to our liking both before and after taking the picture, and those sensors promise Samsung good results even in low light conditions.
A compensated hardware proposal
Samsung has not given data on the specific processor used in this model, but it is an octo-core model with 2 “fast” 2.2 GHz cores and another six slightly slower cores, at 1.6 GHz.
The new Samsung Galaxy A8 come with many surprises, but there are two especially remarkable: the screen “Infinity Display” almost without frames reaches these mid-range models, which also give absolute prominence to selfies.
They do it with a dual camera that this time is not in the back, but in the front . A curious bet that of course differentiates these models from their predecessors and that is reinforced with important issues such as resistance to water and dust.
Get used to the infinite screens
Samsung has been betting on curved screens for some time, but in 2017 we saw how that proposal went further with screens with even fewer frames like the Galaxy S8 / S8 + or Note 8.
In the new Galaxy A8 the curved screen disappears , but what remain are the frames without frames that have conquered a good part of the high range and that will undoubtedly be a constant from now on in the design of mobile phones of all kinds. ranges
In fact in the Galaxy A8 we find an interesting diagonal of 5.6 inches that makes it a more compact device than its older brothers but equally striking for that good screen size.
The resolution of 2,220 x 1,080 pixels confirms the use of the aspect ratio 18.5: 9 that Samsung had been using in other devices, and also maintain the Super AMOLED technology that allows for example having the screen mode Always-on.
Many successes here, and it does not seem particularly worrisome not to have these striking curved screens that provide a differential touch in the design of their more ambitious devices, but which are not as important on a practical level .
Design with a key success: the position of the fingerprint sensor
In this design with softly rounded corners, the tendency is also evident for the materials that seem to be protagonists at this time: glass and metal dominate the entire chassis.
Interestingly, the bet has been changing completely regarding the issue of thickness: in the Galaxy A7 of 2015 it went to a negligible thickness (6.3 mm), while the Galaxy A7 of 2017 were already 7.9 mm thick. In the Galaxy A8 that thickness is even greater, and we have a device almost “chubby” 8.4 mm.
What is really remarkable about this more compact design thanks to that smaller diagonal is nevertheless the new position of the fingerprint sensor, which as in models with “infinite” screens goes to the back. It does so in a much more appropriate position , since Samsung places it below the camera.
This decision finally corrects the criticisms that many of us had made about the footprint sensor of the Galaxy S8 / S8 + and the Note 8, which kept that sensor to the right of the camera, something that made it ergonomically less accessible and caused potential confusions to when to use it
The bokeh effect and the dual camera go to the front
Another of the great tendencies of the last months is that “portrait mode” that has conquered users and manufacturers . The dual cameras that facilitate the application of the famous bokeh effect (focus the object or person in the foreground, blur the background) had so far been integrated in the back most of the time, but that changes in the Galaxy A8.
In fact the rear camera has a single sensor of 16 Mpixels and aperture f / 1.7, while in the front as we say is where we find the dual camera that combines a 16-megapixel sensor with another 8-megapixel , both with aperture f / 1.9.
That will allow selfies lovers to take advantage of that camera to exploit these types of captures, taking advantage of the bokeh effect in these captures. The Dynamic Focus function will allow to adjust that blur to our liking both before and after taking the picture, and those sensors promise Samsung good results even in low light conditions.
A compensated hardware proposal
Samsung has not given data on the specific processor used in this model, but it is an octo-core model with 2 “fast” 2.2 GHz cores and another six slightly slower cores, at 1.6 GHz.
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