The A8 is nearly everything we loved about the Galaxy A8, just turned down a notch or two. It's shaping up to be a fantastic phone, with nine tenths of the performance and design of that phenomenal flagship. It might have lost the curved display, but in keeping the 18:9 aspect ratio and skinny bezels, it's still every bit as desirable as the mid-range competition. Maybe even more so, if you can't get enough of snapping selfies. Camera quality and battery life are still up for debate right now, but considering the hardware is so similar to its bigger brother, we're betting the Galaxy A8 puts in an impressive performance. We'll find out when we give it a full review. Whether it can undercut the OnePlus 5T and Honor View 10 will determine whether the A8 is a true bargain or not. Hopefully Samsung gets the price right when it goes on sale in the UK in the next couple of months.

In recent years Samsung has been rethinking its priorities. Attractive design used to play second fiddle to convenience and sheer number of features, but now the upper end of the range requires metal build.

Samsung has unveiled its new incredibly thin at just 5.9mm Galaxy A8 handset couple of days ago, today we get the pricing of upcoming A8. For the 16GB model 3,199 CNY ($515) (Rs32700). The 32GB variant will price at 3,499 CNY ($564) (Rs35811).

Oh yeah, the durian has dropped. We now know all we need to know about Samsung ’s Galaxy A8 and A8+ smartphones. The final piece of the puzzle has been found so you know what that means: Judgement time.