Samsung Galaxy Note 8 India Pre-Orders Start Shipping, Goes on Sale on Friday

After the global rollout in 42 countries, shipping of pre-orders in India has now begun for the Samsung Galaxy Note 8. The smartphone was up for pre-orders since September 12, and early pre-order customers will start to see the smartphone arrive at their doorsteps starting Thursday. The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is priced at Rs. 67,900 across India, and will be sold online via Amazon India, Samsung's online store, as well as select offline Samsung stores.

On Amazon India, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is still up for pre-order, and the release date is set for September 22. The e-commerce portal has listed special pre-order offers like Rs. 4,000 cash back if you purchase the smartphone with HDFC bank credit cards. You also get a free wireless charger alongside, and Reliance Jio is offering up to 448GB of extra 4G data alongside free Jio Prime membership. By paying Rs. 990 more alongside the pre-order, you also get eligible for a one-time screen replacement as well. No Cost EMI options are also available on many cards, and an exchange offer up to Rs. 10,400 is also listed on the e-commerce site. You can check all the deals here.Similar offers are listed on the Samsung online store for pre-ordering the smartphone as well. The exchange offer value may vary depending upon the smartphone you exchange it with.

Two weeks ago, Samsung Galaxy Note 8 registrations crossed 1.5 lakh while the pre-orders reportedly hit the 72,000 mark in India. In its home market, Samsung said that the Galaxy Note 8 pre-orders were 2.5 times that of all the pre-orders for the Galaxy Note 7 in South Korea.

For the specifications, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 packs a huge 6.3-inch QHD+ (1440x2960 pixels) Super AMOLED Infinity Display with an 18.5:9 screen ratio, the same as Samsung's Galaxy S8 flagship. Apart from this, Galaxy Note 8 comes with features such as iris scanner that can be used as an authentication method for certain functionalities, S Pen as a stylus to jot, scribble, magnify things in addition to some advanced operations like real-time translation of texts and pictures.

Other specifications include a Samsung Exynos 8895 SoC (four cores clocked at 2.3GHz and four cores clocked at 1.7GHz) (Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC in US) coupled with 6GB of LPDDR4 RAM. The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 features a dual rear camera setup, with Dual OIS (optical image stabilisation), wherein there is one 12-megapixel sensor coupled with a wide-angle lens, Dual Pixel autofocus, an f/1.7 aperture, and optical image stabilisation, while the other sensor is also a 12-megapixel, paired with a telephoto lens, an f/2.4 aperture, and optical image stabilisation. The dual camera setup gives the Galaxy Note 8 the capability to offer depth-of-field (Bokeh) effects with real-time and after the fact adjustment, 2x optical zoom, as well as the ability to capture photos simultaneously with each camera. On the front end, there's an 8-megapixel autofocus camera with an aperture of f/1.7.