Samsung Galaxy J8 2018

The Samsung Galaxy J8 comes with a dual rear camera setup, comprising a primary 16MP sensor with f/1.7 aperture and a 5MP sensor with f/.9 aperture. At the front, you get a 16MP sensor, with a f/1.9 aperture for taking selfies. With the default camera app, users get different camera modes including Pro, Panorama, Beauty, Live Focus, Stickers, and Continuous Shot.The Pro mode essentially allows you to adjust the white balance and ISO. For those who are unaware, the Live Focus feature allows users to adjust the background blur while clicking pictures as well as later. The camera settings allow you to take pictures with grid lines, location tags, with the HDR mode enabled and a timer.

To address the elephant in the room, the Galaxy J8 is powered by the Snapdragon 450 SoC, which is definitely not fitting for a handset in this price range. To give you further perspective, Xiaomi's Redmi 5, which is priced around Rs 12,000 less than the Galaxy J8, comes with the very same processor. In a market where competition is at its peak and manufacturers are offering powerful processors at cheaper price points, Samsung seems to have lost the plot in this category. Having said that, the phone manages to handle regular apps and games with ease, but heavy games like PUBG and Injustice 2 are better played at low graphics settings.Talking about the memory, there is 4GB of RAM and 64GB of built-in storage that can be further expanded via microSD card up to 256GB. Moving to the software, the Galaxy J8 runs Android 8.0 Oreo-based Samsung Experience UI v9.0 out of the box. Apart from all the pre-loaded apps that might expect out of the Experience UI, there are some notable inclusions in the form of Samsung Pay mini and Samsung Mall. Samsung Pay mini is basically a stripped-down variant of the Samsung Pay service from the company and allows users to transfer money using Unified Payment Interface (UPI). The sole purpose of this app is to make it easier for you to make payments using mobile wallets and UPI. Coming to the Samsung Mall, the app makes use of the phone's camera to help users find things online by clicking their pictures. Apart from this, there are some Microsoft apps pre-installed, as has been the case with most recent handsets from the brand.

The Galaxy J8 houses a beefy 3,500mAh battery and the handset offers the same battery-saving features as some of the other handsets from the company. Overall, we found the battery backup to be extremely impressive. As the new mid-range handset from Samsung packs an HD+ display, which is less power-draining than higher resolution panels, the Galaxy J8 managed to last two days of regular usage with ease.Even with heavy usage, the handset easily lasted for a day and a half as a daily driver, thanks to the impressive battery backup. In our HD video loop test, the smartphone just dropped to 92 percent battery level after running the video for around two hours on loop.