Samsung Galaxy Note 8

Technology

GSM / HSPA / LTE

Announced

2017, August

Status

Available. Released 2017, September

Dimensions

162.5 x 74.8 x 8.6 mm (6.40 x 2.94 x 0.34 in)

Weight

195 g (6.88 oz)

Build

Front/back glass (Gorilla Glass 5), aluminum frame

SIM

Single SIM (Nano-SIM) or Hybrid Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)

– Samsung Pay (Visa, MasterCard certified)
– IP68 dust/water proof (up to 1.5m for 30 mins)
– Stylus

Type

Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

Size

6.3 inches, 101.1 cm2 (~83.2% screen-to-body ratio)

Resolution

1440 x 2960 pixels, 18.5:9 ratio (~521 ppi density)

Multitouch

Yes

Protection

Corning Gorilla Glass 5

– HDR10 compliant
– 3D Touch (home button only)
– Always-on display

OS

Android 7.1.1 (Nougat), upgradable to Android 8.0 (Oreo)

Chipset

Exynos 8895 Octa – EMEA
Qualcomm MSM8998 Snapdragon 835 – USA & China

CPU

Octa-core (4×2.3 GHz Mongoose M2 & 4×1.7 GHz Cortex-A53) – EMEA
Octa-core (4×2.35 GHz Kryo & 4×1.9 GHz Kryo) – USA & China

GPU

Mali-G71 MP20 – EMEA
Adreno 540 – USA & China

Card slot

microSD, up to 512 GB (uses SIM 2 slot) – dual SIM model only

Internal

64/128/256 GB, 6 GB RAM

Primary

Dual: 12 MP (f/1.7, 26mm, 1/2.5″, 1.4µm, dual pixel PDAF) + 12MP (f/2.4, 52mm, 1/3.6″, 1µm, AF), OIS, 2x optical zoom, LED flash, check quality

Features

Geo-tagging, simultaneous 4K video and 9MP image recording, touch focus, face/smile detection, Auto HDR, panorama

Video

2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, 720p@240fps, HDR, dual-video rec., check quality

Secondary

8 MP (f/1.7, 25mm, 1/3.6″, 1.22µm), AF, 1440p@30fps, dual video call, Auto HDR

Alert types

Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones

Loudspeaker

Yes

3.5mm jack

Yes

– 32-bit/384kHz audio
– Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic

WLAN

Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot

Bluetooth

5.0, A2DP, LE, aptX

GPS

Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO

NFC

Yes

Radio

No

USB

3.1, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector

Sensors

Iris scanner, fingerprint (rear-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, heart rate, SpO2

Messaging

SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM

Browser

HTML5

– Samsung DeX (desktop experience support)
– Fast battery charging (Quick Charge 2.0)
– Qi/PMA wireless charging (market dependent)
– ANT+ support
– Bixby natural language commands and dictation
– MP4/DivX/XviD/H.265 player
– MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player
– Photo/video editor
– Document editor