Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018) User Reviews

I've had this phone for about 9 months. I moved from an iPhone 7 because the experience was horrible during the early iOS 11. Had really short battery life, non-existent ram and the overall iOS experience did not suit me very well.

For anyone that lives in South Korea, a Samsung phone or a LG phone basically has the most practical features in a smartphone compared to an iPhone or a Sony phone. iPhones are pretty popular, but lack of Apple pay and official Apple care plus support was the reason why I gave up using an iPhone.

With this A8, I can pay almost anything with Samsung pay, even public transits. It has a somewhat decent camera, but don't expect anything during low light as the phone's pro mode is pretty weak and it has no OIS. Design-wise it is just a watered down S9. Nothing too fancy or anything but gets the job done. Really hope there was wireless charging but oh well.

Performance is okay for me, I only use messengers, web browsing and some phonecalls and music (headphone jack is a real plus coming from an iPhone 7)but sometimes with a lackluster AP and a eMMC, you can feel the phone sometimes skipping frames and struggling to keep up.

Display is fine. The new aspect ratio is great for Reddit or some web browsing, but really bad when it comes to watching PUBG youtube videos as expanding the video makes me lose the health bar at the bottom of the screen. :(

For anyone that doesn't do anything special with their phone, this is an okay buy, but for me, I will be moving onto another flagship real soon.

i took this phone February to replace my s5 fran8lly the phone is beautiful great batterry display strong WiFi fantastic cameras..the only problem i face is the Gsm reception the 2G is poor specially is you have wifi on i live in an area with a lot tall buildings around me so the signal was always weak..but the s5 never failed me in that matter A8 does ,i have zero or 1 line in my place when s5 had 2or 1 lines always from the other hand the LTA is strong and 3 G works in the other areas very good inless tgis is a beautiful phone oh and sonethig last the guys talking on open speakers will found very mediocre the quality of the call