Samsung Galaxy A8 (2016) goes on sale, South Korea gets it first

Himanshu, 05 October 2016

The Samsung Galaxy A8 (2016) was unveiled towards the end of last month, and pre-orders for it went live in the company's home country of South Korea on October 1. Now, the phone has been made available for purchase in the Asian country.

The device is currently an SK Telecom-exclusive in South Korea, and carries a price tag of KRW 649,000 ($583). It's currently only available in blue color, with the carrier saying that pastel pink and silver color models will become available soon.

The carrier also revealed that those opting for the 6.5GB data plan will get a discount of KRW 250,000 (around $225) on the handset. The plan costs KRW 56,100 ($50) per month.

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Reader comments

AnonD-594894
08 Oct 2016
IVM

On the spec of this phone won't say 270euro? Actually it is 270 or 580?

Osiris
06 Oct 2016
SXh

Another one without LED notification :((

lacp
05 Oct 2016
ncG

Don't say me that the Exynos 7420 is weak and underpowered?! With four cores Cortex A57 at 2.1GHz is underpowered? The Exynos 7420 has a excellent performance despiste to be a 2015 chipset. And the A72 processors also have Cortex A53 co-processors. O...