Last year, in December, Samsung launched its Galaxy A8+ and hit a huge success.
The device has a 6-inch display with touchscreen of course and its resolution is 1080 x 2220 pixels. It comes with the newer Android Oreo 2018 update in July. It features an internal storage of 32 GB, .6 GHz octa-core processor and 4 GB RAM. By adding a microSD card the storage can get to 256 GB. The camera has a 16 MP main rear and it has the Android 9.0 software. The Galaxy A8 (2018) has the price of 499 ($588), while the Galaxy A8 Plus (2018) costs €599 ($706) in Europe.
The small version of Samsung Galaxy A8 2018 has a 5.6-inch full HD+, a 1080 Super AMOLED Infinity 2220 x 1080 display, 4GB of RAM and storage of 32 or 64 GB. They are both available in several colors and have a design that can be used one-handed. New features such as the night mode, life to wake, Corning Gorilla Glass 4 and dark theme were now added.
Samsung is working on the Android Pie update to get to all their devices, and the Galaxy A8+ (2018) might get it in 2019 and it will be the last upgrade for the operating system. When tested, the device Galaxy A8+ (2018), scored 1530 points on single core and on the multi-core test it managed to score 4306.
The same results were when testing the device on Android 8.0 Oreo which means that the Samsung Company is making big progress with the Pie for Galaxy A8+ (2018) update. The Galaxy A8 (2018) model is expected to get the Pie update with Galaxy A8+ (2018) in Q2 2019, but no one said anything about the date.
Henry Lares is still early into his career as tech reporter but has already had his work published in many major publications including Tech Crunch and the Huffington Post. In regards to academics, Henry earned an engineering degree from Apex Technical School. Henry has a passion for emerging technology and covers upcoming products and breakthroughs in science and tech.
