Samsung Galaxy A8 Star Review! Worth $500? By GadgetByte

The e-series has always been a kid wave from mid-range devices to high-end flagships for Samsung they pack in some features from the mid-Rangers, while the others they borrow from flagships. This is the case for a long lineup of Samsung's ETV smartphones, and that is the case yet again here. This is the Samsung Galaxy 8-star Samsung's answer to the growing number of cheap high-end Chinese smartphones. So is this device a star of the smartphone galaxy? Let's find out. This is the galaxy a star. It has followed the trend of smartphone sporting minimum vessels and a glass back.

What we get with it is a boxy design that has sharp edges all around these sharp edges make the fold a bit difficult to use. I know that some of you might like this, but at a time when companies are focusing on better looks and good on hands, feel Sam's. Light has gone old-school, but still the device has a heft to it and feels premium. The shiny glass pack looks quite good, don't you think? But yes, like every other smartphone of the present time, it attracts fingerprints. So I carried around a microfiber cloth all the time sandwiched between the two glasses is a metallic rail that helps with better gripping on this rail rest.

A few buttons there's a power button on the right with the volume rockers and the infamous fix B button on the right. For me, the worst feature of this mock phone is definitely the placement of buttons. I mean just look at it. The buttons are so hard to reach and whenever I thought I reach the volume rockers, it was always the Bigamy button and trust me it's very, very annoying when it happens a lot of times during the day. Another disappointment is the placement of the fingerprint sensor, Samsung and fingerprint sensors.

They don't go together ever I had praised the placement of the fingerprint sensor in the note 9 and s9, but yet again there is Samsung placing the fingerprint sensors so high. Another area where the eight star did not quite live up to my expectations is on the battery front, with a 3700 mAh battery I had expected it to last for more than a day, but that was not the case, and it only gave me a screen on time of around five to five and a half hours now running for all the time is good, but for that battery size and for what it's worth I think it's not good enough. Also, it only has Full HD plus resolution, so running for a little longer should be a necessary right. There's a fast charging tech embedded inside, though, with the default charger which is Type, C enabled. So that's good, but what's good here lies in front.

The eight-star follows Samsung strengths of having a top-notch display, even though there is no not here, the front has a tall 6.3-inch full HD display, which shredder top and bottom bezels, just like the eight plus I. Like everything about this display it's bright outdoors and with the Super AMOLED panel, it is well saturated pleasing to the eyes and colorful. It certainly gives other smartphones are run for their money. If you compare it against the 1 plus 6, which is available in a similar price tag in some countries they look quite similar to the eye. However, the bezels could have been a little shorter to make the phone look even more attractive.

Now, let's talk about security like every other smartphones in 2018. This one 2 comes with 2 security options, facial unlock and a fingerprint sensor. The fingerprint sensor gets unlocking right every time and is a little faster than some Samsung devices. The face unlock, on the other hand, takes a second to unlock the device, so you have that onto the performance. The 8-star feature, snapdragon 616 possessors with 6 GB of RAM I had had no complaints with the CPU whatsoever.

It performs all your basic tasks flawlessly and lives are already the things of the past in Samsung smartphones. It has been able to handle my day-to-day usage efficiently as well. However, you can only play pop genie, medium settings, which is kind of a bummer, since we can play it in high settings in the similar price.1 + 6, so the talking point here is the price. The 8 star is surely expensive when compared side-by-side with the 1 plus 6. That features a snapdragon 845 chipsets, you get a flawless processor in the age start, but when you are paying a premium price you should get the best.

What do you think it should at least be equipping the Snapdragon 710 processor, which is found in the chip permeate as II? And if you talk about ramen room, it does not feature a ddr4, X, RAM or UFS storage. So does the pricing justify everything? On the software front, the device comes with android 8.0 Oreo, with Samsung's experienced UI 9.0 on top the software is fluent and everything, and it is free of any sort of stutters. If you are wondering- and if you are curious about when Android Pi will arrive at the eight star. Well, we don't know that. Yet, let's talk about the cameras.

Now the eight star follows the dual camera ban: vegan by equipping a 16, megapixel plus 24 megapixel cameras at the back, both with focal 1.7 apertures. The pictures come out great, and they are well detailed and sharp. They are saturated as well, but if you compare it against some other devices of this price range, you will see where it shines and where it falls behind the best part of the images I showed is. Thirdly, the details captured the OnePlus 6 loses a lot of details when you zoom in. However, if you see the golden colored plates on these images, you will notice how artificial it looks and even though Samsung's phone shoot over saturated images, the OnePlus 6, certainly outperforms it with the saturation and colors front.

Also, the OnePlus 6 retains the high dynamic range, whereas the 8-star falls only a little behind in that aspect. There is also the light focus mode on the phone which lets you toggle. The intensity of blur. The fake blur is indeed good, but if you zoom in you can easily notice the areas around the head where it hasn't been able to blur out properly compared against the 1 plus 6, and you will notice the 6 doing it better right away. The red cameras on this device are capable of shooting, FHD, plus and 40 videos.

At 30fps now I tried full HD videos on this device and even without stabilization engraved, it takes stable videos with good colors and zoom capabilities, and, yes, it should slow motion videos as well I will, let you be the judge here for this video. Let us know how you like this feature during the nighttime is where the things get interesting. Although the pictures are noisy and slightly grainy, they are well saturated and retain the colors quite nicely. If you ask me if you zoom in the pictures, you will notice the loss in quality, but for what it's worth, it definitely takes. Some decent pictures on the front side vest a 24 megapixel selfie camera, which is the highest count of megapixels on any Samsung selfie camera Samsung has definitely taken a step forward to buy against other smartphones like OPPO and VEVO, among others.

Take a look at some samples here. All of these images have good details, and they have captured a natural skin tone. You can also apply a lot of stickers on your selfies. If you want to there's also a night mode for selfies, but I didn't see any major difference here, so all in all, Samsung has finally felt the necessity of focusing on selfies as well the 8-star packs in a bottom firing speaker. The speaker is alright to fill up a small room, but it is nowhere close to the stereo speakers of that note.9 +, vs 9, and if you play pop G and watch a lot of videos, you will have to be very careful not to cover it in terms of call quality. I had no issues with the phone.

The callers on the other ends never complained about the call and the earpiece gives of pretty loud sounds to conclude. Yes, the galaxy eight star is a good device. No doubts on that. It has a crisp display of flawless processor, good set of cameras both front and back and everything you would wish in a good smartphone. But everything boils down to the pricing in the end and there are other smartphone brands like OnePlus, honor and Xiaomi that are giving a tough competition to the mid-range smartphones by Samsung, and the price of the 8 star is well very expensive and I.

Think Samsung should focus on aggressive pricing if it wants to stay long in the game, so that was all for the review. Tell us what do you think about the 8 star in the comment section below till then I am Freddie magically and thank you.

Source : GadgetByte