Gadgetory

Samson is continuing its trend of making high-end looking mid-tier devices with its a series this is the a8 and the a8 plus you'll notice that in terms of design they look strikingly similar to Samsung's flagship phones like the s8 and the note 8 with the same glass back and metal framing they also have what Samson calls the infinity display even though they're not quite as edge to edge as the note 8 and the s8 it's HD plus Super AMOLED screen which is slightly bigger than the previous a series this one is 6 inches and the regular a is 5.6 they also have the incremental changes you'd expect from the next in a series like a better processor and better battery life even though the a8 plus will have the bigger battery but the main focus for improvement has been the camera and I'm not talking about the rear camera what I'm talking about is the front-facing camera now these phones are designed with younger consumers in mind who perhaps are more interested in selfies it has a dual front camera 16 and 8 megapixels similar to what we saw on the note but the note had it on the rear you can achieve the same live focus effect that we saw on the note 8 which uses the two cameras to create that blurred background effect and it's equipped with Bigsby assistant unfortunately the a-series does not launch in the US but it will be launching in other markets starting in January the a8 will cost roughly 499 euro while the a A+ will cost around 579 year