Samsung Galaxy A8s full specs leaked ahead of expected January 2019 launch

The coming year, 2019, is going to be important for Samsung. Besides announcing its tenth-anniversary edition Galaxy S10 series, the South Korean smartphone maker is also going to launch its first fully foldable smartphone, the company has announced. In fact, Samsung is reportedly working on a 5G support model of the S10 as well, which the company may not announce alongside the other models. The Galaxy S10 with 5G support could go official a few months later. In addition to these premium phones, Samsung has also confirmed to bring phones with its newly announced displays including -- Infinity-O, Infinity-U and Infinity-V. Rumours suggest that the company has already started working hard on its first Infinity-O phone, which is most likely going to the Galaxy A8s.

During the launch of the Galaxy A9s and Galaxy A6s, Samsung has officially confirmed the coming of Galaxy A8s. The company, however, hasn't yet confirmed the launch timeline of the Galaxy A8s, but rumours suggest that the smartphone could go official sometime around January next year, 2019. Ahead of the launch, the Infinity-O display Samsung phone has been subjected to several leaks and rumours. Last week, renders showing the complete phone had leaked, and now the full specs of the phone have surfaced online.

The new leak goes in line with the previous ones and reveals that the Galaxy A8s will indeed come with Infinity-O display. This means that the screen of the Samsung phone will sport a hole in the upper left corner. The hole is basically to equip the selfie camera, which is said to have a 24-megapixel sensor. On the rear panel, the Galaxy A8s is expected to sport three cameras just as the recently launched Galaxy A7 (2018). This makes the Galaxy A8s the second phone from Samsung to get a triple camera setup on the rear panel.

As for the specs, the new leak reveals that the Galaxy A8s will come with a primary camera of 25-megapixel sensor, secondary camera of 5-megapixel, and third camera of a 10-megapixel. As of now, there's no confirmation on the aperture and other camera features and modes that the Galaxy A8s will pack.

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The leak further reveals that the Galaxy A8s will sport a 6.39-inch LCD screen supplied by Chinese display maker -- BOE. On the hardware front, the leak suggests that the Samsung phone will be powered by Qualcomm's recently launched Snapdragon 710 chipset paired with up to 6GB RAM and 128GB storage, expandable up to 512GB via microSD card. The leak also reveals that the Galaxy A8s will come packed with a 3,400mAh battery. Although the software running the Samsung phone hasn't been revealed in the leak, we expect the phone to come with Android 9 Pie out-of-the-box.