More than 250,000 people in India have registered to buy the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 device, which will be launched in the country on September 12 - the same day when Apple will unveil its next big device in the US, which may be iPhone 8.

Nearly 150,000 people have registered on Amazon, with 72,000 pre-booking the flagship device on the very first day when registrations were opened last weekend. About 100,000 people have registered to buy the Galaxy Note 8 on the Samsung India website, industry sources told IANS. Samsung was aware of the iPhone launch but was confident enough to launch on the same day owing to its strong leadership position in India, the sources added.

According to market research firm GfK, Samsung is the top brand in India with a 43 per cent market share in the smartphone segment.

Samsung launched the Galaxy Note 8 in South Korea in August. The device comes with the Bixby intelligent assistant, is water- and dust-resistant and houses an iris scanner.

Similar to the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8+, the Note 8 also sports the Infinity Display with an aspect ratio of 18.5:9.

The 6.3-inch screen is Super Amoled with a resolution of 1440 x 2960 pixels.

The Note 8 sports top-notch features such as a 64-bit Exynos 8895 octa-core processor chipset with 6GB RAM and 64GB internal storage.

This is Samsung's first smartphone to feature a dual camera set-up at the rear with portrait mode and dual optical image stabilisation.

The 8MP front camera also comes with optical image stabilisation. The S Pen stylus with the Galaxy Note 8 comes with a latency of less than 50 milliseconds.

Source: Khaleej Times