Waiting for The Samsung Galaxy Note 8? Here’s When You Can Get Hold of The Phone in India
Waiting for the Samsung Galaxy Note 8? Here’s when you can get hold of the phone in India Samsung is gearing up for a big-ticket smartphone launch this month with the Galaxy Note 8, launched globally just a few days back. While the official India launch date is still not out, Indianexpress.com has learnt that the top-end smartphone will hit retail shelves here sometime in the last week of September, just in time for Diwali. A Samsung Smart Cafe sales executive has told Indianexpress.com the first batch of units will be ready to be delivered to customers in Delhi-NCR sometime near September 24. Pre-bookings are yet to be open for the same, though some Samsung Smart Cafes are urging users to pre-book the device by paying a nominal amount between Rs 500 and Rs 2000. These customers will be intimated of pre-booking offers too. Source: ****** subscr
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Waiting for the Samsung Galaxy Note 8? Here’s when you can get hold of the phone in India
Waiting for the Samsung Galaxy Note 8? Here’s when you can get hold of the phone in India. Samsung is gearing up for a big-ticket smartphone launch this month with the Galaxy Note 8, launched globally just a few days back.
While the official India launch date is still not out, Indianexpress.com has learnt that the top-end smartphone will hit retail shelves here sometime in the last week of September, just in time for Diwali.
A Samsung Smart Cafe sales executive has told Indianexpress.com the first batch of units will be ready to be delivered to customers in Delhi-NCR sometime near September 24.
Pre-bookings are yet to be open for the same, though some Samsung Smart Cafes are urging users to pre-book the device by paying a nominal amount between Rs 500 and Rs 2000. These customers will be intimated of pre-booking offers too.
Samsung plans to bring the Galaxy Note 8 in two storage variants to India; 64GB and 128GB. The 256GB storage variant is unlikely to be available initially.
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 might start upwards of Rs 65,000 for the base variant. In the US, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 base variant is priced at $930 (or approx Rs 59,357).
On the dealer side, Samsung will begin a training exercise from September 4 to brief salespersons about the new Galaxy Note 8.
This indicates that Samsung could be organising a launch event in the second week of September to mark the arrival of the Galaxy Note 8 in India.
India will be in the first wave of countries to get the Galaxy Note 8. In the US and South Korea, Samsung Galaxy Note 8 will be made available on September 15.
Meanwhile, in Australia, the device’s shipment date has been set for September 22. Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 8 in New York on August 23. The device sports a 6.3-inch QuadHD+ AMOLED Infinity Display with a resolution 1440 x 2960p.
It is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC (India will be getting the Exynos octa-core variant), paired with 6GB RAM, and support for microSD card slot.
The phone also gets dual 12-megapixel rear cameras with optical image stabilisation (OIS) on both with f/1.7 wide-angle lens and the f/2.4 telephoto lenses and 2x optical zoom. There’s an 8-megapixel camera on the front.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 sports a 3300mAh battery and runs Android 7.1.1 Nougat. The device supports IP68 water and dust resistance. Plus, it also features the S-Pen stylus.
