Samsung Galaxy Note 8 goes on sale in India; Price, specs and features

Samsung Galaxy Note 8 launched in India in eairly this month. Today Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is now officially on sale in India. The Galaxy Note 8 priced at Rs. 67,900 and will be available in Midnight Black and Maple Gold colors. Currently Amazon is offering HDFC credit card holders get a case back of Rs. 4,000, get  Free wireless charger, One time screen replacement at Rs 990 and Jio get up to 448GB of extra 4G data over 8 months. The Bixby voice will be available in India from September 30 on Galaxy Note 8, Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+.

Samsung Galaxy Note 8 specifications, features

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 sports a 6.3-inch QHD+ (1440x2960 pixels) Super AMOLED Infinity display of 18.5:9 aspect ratio with a pixel density of 521ppi. It is powered by an Exynos 8895 SoC (4 cores clocked at 2.3GHz and 4 at 1.7GHz) with 6GB of RAM. The smartphone comes 64GB storage, expandable via microSD card (up to 256GB) in a hybrid dual-SIM configuration.

The Galaxy Note 8 sports a dual rear camera setup, with one 12-megapixel Dual Pixel wide-angle lens with f/1.7 aperture, while the other 12-megapixel telephoto lens with f/2.4 aperture. Both the lenses support Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), making it a first in a smartphone. The setup is capable of depth of field effects like Bokeh, apart from 2X optical zoom. You'll also be able to take photos with both lenses at the same time. This means that if you have a scene setup you then have the choice of how it looks, with a photo coming from each camera. This is called Dual Capture. The Galaxy Note 8 offers a feature called live focus as a shooting mode. What live focus does is let you move a slider to change the level of blurring, a bit like manually changing the aperture on a proper lens. Not only can this be done live, but it can be changed after the fact, so you can edit the photo once you've taken it, adding or removing the blur, as long as you've shot in the "live focus" mode. The front camera has an 8-megapixel sensor with autofocus and an f/1.7 aperture.

S Pen: This new version of S Pen stylus increases the pressure sensitivity (4,096 levels) and expands the feature set offered, so it now does a little more. Some features of S Pen, off-screen memo - which allows you to handwritten notes without having to turn your phone screen on. You can collect up to 100 pages of these notes, with the ability to save, pin and share them. Smart select is excellent, letting you capture a piece of information and extract the text that you can share or save. App Pair features allow signal tap in edge panel and open two apps at a same time. You can create a two apps shortcut which you mostly used. 

Connectivity options include 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth v5.0, USB Type-C, NFC, GPS/ A-GPS, NFC, and MST. The smartphone has three biometric unlocking features - fingerprint scanner, facial recognition, and an iris scanner. The smartphone also unlocks through voice unlocking through Bixby, Fingerprint sensor, PIN and Password. The smartphone ticking is a 3,300mAh battery with fast charging support, both wired and wireless. The Galaxy Note 8 and S Pen stylus both IP68-certified for dust and water resistance, capable of withstanding immersion in up to 1.5 meters for up to 30 minutes. It runs Android Nougat 7.1.1 out-of-the-box. 

Galaxy Note 8