The Samsung Galaxy A8s is an Android

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produced by

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as part of the

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. It was announced on 10 December 2018 primarily for the Chinese market. It was also sold as the Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro (2019) in

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. The A8s is a triple camera smartphone produced by Samsung, featuring 3 different cameras on the rear. A circular hole is punched out in the top left corner of the display for the front camera, branded as the Infinity-O Display. It is also the first Samsung smartphone to not include a

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Specifications

The A8s features a 6.4-inch Full HD+ IPS

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display with a 19.5:9

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. Unlike previous Samsung A series phones, this device uses a normal LCD panel rather than an AMOLED display. The new Infinity-O display features a full edge to edge display with a 6.7 mm round hole punched out in the top left corner for the front camera. The triple camera setup features a primary 24 MP f/1.7 sensor for normal photography, a 10MP f/2.4 telephoto sensor with optical zoom and a 5MP depth sensor for effects such as bokeh. The front camera is a 24MP f/2.0 sensor in a pin-hole punched out in the display. It runs Android 8.1 "Oreo" with Samsung Experience 9.5 respectively out-of-the box, however it is upgradable to

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with

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2.0. The smartphone features an upgraded

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710 SoC consisting of 2 performance 2.2

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360 and 6 efficient 1.7GHz Kryo 360 backed by a new

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616 GPU and sports 6 GB or 8 GB of

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and 128 GB of

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, expandable to 512 GB via a

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, through a dedicated SD card slot.

Availability

Following the unveiling,

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announced that the device will go on sale in only in the Chinese market, with no announcement to release in other countries. However, on January 25, 2019, the phone was announced in South Korea as the Galaxy A9 Pro.

References

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