Even though Samsung is one of the world's largest smartphone maker, the South Korean tech giant is not among the companies that provides Android OS updates in a swift manner. Some would even say that Samsung is among the last to provide major OS upgrades.

It's understandable that the South Korean tech company wants customers who purchased its smartphones to be up to date with the latest Android releases coming from Google, but there are more tech fans who own mid-range smartphones which are usually getting a very late update.

But, one of the mid-range devices launched by Samsung in 2015, the Galaxy A8, is now eligible for an Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow upgrade. Since the smartphone hit the market in August 2015 with Android 5.1 Lollipop, Samsung took more than a year to bring it to Marshmallow, which isn't the last version of Google's OS, according to Phone Arena.

However, Samsung, has finally made the 2016 edition of its Galaxy A8 official, the successor to 2015's effort that might look similar on the outside, but has been changed quite a bit on the inside.

The most notable change of the Galaxy A8 (2016) seems to be the increased thickness, with the Galaxy A8 (2016) sporting a 7.2mm all-metal body. By comparison, the 5.9mm profile of the original Galaxy A8 made the smartphone the slimmest in Samsung's handset portfolio, but the 2016 phone's increased thickness allows the tech company to include a larger 3,300mAh battery compared to the 3,050mAh power pack found in the original, Yahoo reported.

Galaxy A8 (2016) is packed with an octa-core Exynos 7420 processor with 3 gigabyte of RAM and 32 gigabyte of internal storage, with support for 256 gigabyte microSD card.

The Galaxy A8 (2016) comes along with a 16 megapixel rear camera and an 8 megapixel front camera. The device runs Android Marshmallow-based Grace UX, which is only available in Samsung Galaxy Note 7, based on the report of News 18.

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