New Delhi:
The South Korean tech giant Samsung has launched Galaxy Note 8 and will go on sale from September 15 in the U.S. Advance orders for the Note 8 begin Thursday.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 - which comes in Midnight Black, Maple Gold, Orchid Grey, and Deep Sea Blue colours - will be available for pre-orders in select markets starting Thursday and will start shipping on September 15. In the US, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 base variant is priced between $930 (roughly Rs. 59,500) on AT&T and $960 on (roughly Rs. 61,500) on Verizon.
Those who pre-order the smartphone will be able to avail a Gear 360 camera or a charging bundle at no price, and Samsung is also said to be offering Galaxy Note 7 customers discounts in a bid to encourage them to purchase the Note 8.
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 specifications
The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is 6.3-inch QuadHD+ AMOLED Infinity Display of resolution 1440x2960
It is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC (with some markets getting the Samsung Exynos octa-core variant), packs 64GB of internal storage, 6GB of RAM, and support for microSD card slot.
The Galaxy Note also offers Bluetooth 5.0 and LTE Cat 16 connectivity features.
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 has dual 12-megapixel rear cameras with optical image stabilisation (OIS) on both the f/1.7 wide-angle lens and the f/2.4 telephoto lenses with 2x optical zoom. There's an f/1.7 8-megapixel camera on the front.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 sports a 3300mAh battery and it runs Android 7.1.1 Nougat.
The device offers IP68 water and dust resistances, and support for wireless charging
"The dual-camera setup in the Note 8 is clearly intended to compete with Portrait Mode on the iPhone 7 Plus, but Apple is likely to move that feature forward this year too, which may leave the Note 8's feature behind the higher-end iPhone especially," Jan Dawson, analyst at Jackdaw Research said.
"The Note 8 is an important release for the company for several reasons. While it is a smaller contributor to Samsung's revenue than the S8, it is a strong differentiator," Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Research told Gadgets 360. "It will represent a major leap forward for Note 5 users. Samsung has detailed the steps it has taken to ensure battery safety and it can point to the S8 as evidence that it is back on track."
