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The latest flagship from Samsung is here, The Samsung Galaxy Note 8, A COMPLETE REVIEW


The latest flagship from Samsung, the Samsung galaxy note 8 is purely a beuty. With its infinite display and dual camera setup, it is one of the beautiful phones ever made by Samsung. with a dimension of 162.5 x 74.8 x 8.6 mm (6.40 x 2.94 x 0.34 in) the phone weighs about 195 grams which is heavy for a phone released in 2017 but with its features its worth it. The phone has a 6.3 inches (~83.2% screen-to-body ratio) Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, with 16M colors and with a resolution of 1440 x 2960 pixels (~521 ppi pixel density).





The phone has a Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection and is HDR10 compliant and with 3d Touch (Home button only) and always on display. The phone is IP68 certified meaning it is dust/water proof over 1.5 meter and 30 minutes. With the traditional Samsung stylus and Samsung Pay,
The phone comes with android 7.1.1 nougat and comes in two variants, the Exynos 8895 Octa-core (4x2.3 GHz & 4x1.7 GHz) processor and Mali-G71 MP20 GPU for the Europe and the Qualcomm MSM8998 Snapdragon 835 Octa-core (4x2.35 GHz Kryo & 4x1.9 GHz Kryo) processor and Adreno 540 GPU for USA & China. The phone has microSD support, up to 256 GB (dedicated slot). The phone has 64/128/256 GB variants along with 6 GB RAM.




The main attraction of the Samsung galaxy note 8 is the dual camera setup of the phone, the phone has Dual 12 MP cameras with 26mm lens and an aperture of f/1.7 for the primary camera and  52mm lens with an aperture of  f/2.4 for the second camera. Both rear cameras has Autofocus, Optical Image Stabilization, 2x optical zoom, dual-LED (dual tone) flash and has features like Geo-tagging, simultaneous 4K video and 9MP image recording, touch focus, face/smile detection, Auto HDR, panorama. The secondary camera is 8 MP with an aperture of  f/1.7, autofocus, 1/3.6" sensor size, 1.22 µm pixel size, 1440p@30fps, dual video call and Auto HDR. The primary cameras can record videos of 2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, 720p@240fps and has HDR and supports dual-video recording.




The phone has a Non-removable Li-Ion 3300 mAh battery which makes the phone a bit heavy. The phone is Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac compatible, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot with Bluetooth 5.0, A2DP, EDR, LE with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO with USB 3.1, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector and has basic features like Iris scanner, fingerprint (rear-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, heart rate, SpO2.





The phone is available in variants like Midnight Black, Maple Gold, Orchid Grey, Deep Sea Blue, Star Pink (Taiwan only). The phone is expensive as you expect as it is the latest flagship from Samsung. The phone costs about 79,999 rupees for the 256GB variant in India or about 1199 $ .

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