According to Forbes, the tech giant has started mass production of a new version of its 16-megapixel imaging chip called ISOCELL S5K3P3, which is smaller in size than the ones incorporated in the Galaxy S6 flagship mobile devices.
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The Samsung Galaxy A8 will be available across online as well as brick and mortar stores, and comes bundled with Airtel’s double data offer for its users. The handset is the thinnest smartphone that Samsung has produced so far. Although the news we have brought by now failed to provide enough enthusiasm, as they didn’t describe much innovation coming along with Samsung Galaxy Note 5, the situation has now improved.
In June this year, HTC Corp. The Galaxy A8 is the slimmest ever smartphone from Samsung’s kitty, measuring in at 5.9mm thick. The Note 5 looks has a similar Galaxy S6’s metal-and-glass design, but has slightly sharper corners.
Samsung’s next Unpacked event is a little less than two weeks away.
Of course we do get the all-metal goodness with Samsung’s new design philosophy, which seems to mimic the Galaxy S6. The innards are getting a speed boost though, this time featuring an octa-core Exynos 7420 processor (4×2.1ghz + 4×1.5ghz) and 4GB of RAM (up from 3GB).
The Galaxy K Zoom shipped out with Android 4.4.2 KitKat out of the box, and naturally, owners were hoping their smartphone would be given the Android 5.0 Lollipop treatment at some point.
On the camera front, one can expect a 8-megapixel back snapper and a 5-megapixel front-confronting camera.
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But what about when it will hit shops? So our money would be on early September or even August. Rumor has it that Samsung will make use of their promising Note 5 to launch Samsung Pay, a new service which allows mobile payments. We don’t know why that is the case exactly, but the same story applied to the Galaxy S4 mini.
