Samsung Galaxy A8 price in Ghana, specs and review
Are you interested in the Samsung Galaxy A8 specifications in Ghana? Below we have a Samsung Galaxy A8 review of; its specifications in Ghana, the features it promises to offer, and find out what is the price of Samsung Galaxy A8 in Ghana to help you make an informed decision before buying the mobile device. Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018) was released in December of 2017 with the Samsung Galaxy A8 price in Ghana going for around GH₵ 1,850 on OLX.
An overview of Samsung Galaxy A8
Below is an overview of the Samsung A8. We look at the good and the bad of the phone
The good
- Great camera
- The speed of the phone is great
- Sleek design
- Bio-metric sensor
The bad
- The phone is quite small
- The phone is thicker than expected for a 2018 model
An overview of the specifications of Samsung Galaxy A8
Samsung packed quite recommendable features into their Samsung Galaxy A8 smartphone. Here is an overview.
Samsung Galaxy A8: hardware
An overview of the Samsung Galaxy A8 hardware features.
1. Design
With its design there is nothing new when you compare it with the other bigger variants of the phone in the market. The size however, might contribute to the price of the Samsung Galaxy A8 in Ghana. The phone is also heavier that other variants and weighs 191 grams with an upside being the thin design. Samsung Galaxy A8 has IP68 certification for being dust and water resistant, a feature which adds to the suitability of the price of Samsung Galaxy A8 in Ghana Cedis.
The new phone has the same number of corners as the flagship model and comes in the same size. When compared to the S8, the A8 is bigger and thicker. The top part of the phone has an earpiece and the two selfie camera as well as a couple of sensors. The phone also has an LED notification. The bottom part however, has nothing. Another important thing to note is that the phone does not come with a sensitive home key as is common with the other Samsung phones such as the S8. It is said that the sensitive home key will remain an exclusive to the Samsung S series. Samsung Galaxy A8 is available as orchid grey, Gold, black or grey colors.
2. Display
The phone has a 6 inch AMOLED screen that provides a huge space for movie viewing experience. The infinity display of the phone has 18:5:9 aspect ratio and a resolution of 2222 x 1080 pixels for a pix-elated density of more than 400 ppi. The phone is 8.4 mm thick which is somehow disappointing for a phone in 2018.
In the event that your phone might require a screen replacement, Samsung Galaxy A8 screen price in Ghana ranges from 300 cedi.
3. Processor, storage & performance
The phone has the Exynos 7885 chip set which has an octa-core processor with a speed of 2.2 GHz. Which makes the phone quite fast and can launch heavy apps in as quick as 0.1 seconds. The graphics of the phone are handled by a Mali-G71 graphic processing unit.
When it comes to storage space, there are two versions of the phone. The cheaper variants with 32 GB of storage and the other with 64 GB of storage space. Both variants however, do offer space for an upgrade up to 256 GB.
Samsung Galaxy A8 offers commendable user experience and performance with its 4 GB of RAM space.
4. Battery
The Samsung Galaxy A8 comes with a 3000 mAh non-removable battery which is ideal for heavy usage. Continuous usage of the phone can last you a whole day on a full battery. Charge period still is enhanced as it charges quite fast.
5. Speaker and call quality
The placement of the Samsung Galaxy A8 speakers is on the side of the phone. The positioning is ideal as it does prevent muffling of sound when listening to music. More so, speaker quality is good as they are loud enough. Should you have headphones, the device has an audio jack to allow you to listen over your headphones. Call quality is impeccable with amazing earpiece speakers.
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Software features of the samsung galaxy A8
An overview of the software capabilities of the Samsung Galaxy A8
1. OS and features
The phone comes with Android 7.1.1 Nougat installed. You can however, update the OS to Android 8.0 Oreo version. The user interfaces, as usual, employs Touch Wiz 6.0 UI.
Samsung A8 has a bio-metric sensor which is quite fast. The sensor is guaranteed to be very accurate by the lengthy set up process which has more than the usual number of taps we are used to in other types of phones. Samsung A8 comes as a single sim and dual sim phones with Samsung Galaxy A8 Duos price in Ghana a little bit higher than that of a single sim phone. Amazon offers duos version at $459 which equals to 2,207.47 Ghanaian Cedi
2. Camera, video and image quality
Samsung Galaxy phones are known to take the best selfies, and the Samsung Galaxy A8 lives up to that expectation with a dual selfie camera. The phone has a 16 MP rear camera and an 8 MP front camera, both with a f/1.9 aperture and can take a snapshot from any angle you wish. High quality images and videos can be captured with the camera capable of face detection features, auto-focus, LED flashlight, tough face, panorama, HDR, and Geo-tagging.
Review
Samsung did incorporate some amazing features into Galaxy A8 which immensely certify how much is Samsung Galaxy A8. It has a wide customer satisfaction base with those who have used the phone satisfied with what they paid for. An amazon rating of 4.5 of 5 stars is a testimony to that.
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Verdict on Samsung galaxy A8
The Samsung A8 is made for those who want a device that has proximal capabilities of an S series Samsung but do not want to pay he high cost. There is little to complain about with the cost of Samsung Galaxy A8 as it bundles much of what flagship devices promise to offer.
Source: YEN.com.gh
