Samsung has cut the price of its high-end Galaxy S8+ variant[1] for the second time in two months. The Galaxy S8+[2] with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage was launched in India[3] at the beginning of June priced at Rs. 74,900, and Samsung cut that by Rs. 4,000[4] in early July to bring the price down to Rs. 70,900. Now, a further Rs. 5,000 has been shaved off the price, bringing it down to Rs. 65,900. Interestingly, the original version of this phone with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage is still priced at Rs. 64,900 which means that the difference between the two has come down from Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 1,000.
The Galaxy S8+ flagship is available offline as well as on Flipkart and on Samsung's own Web store. Other than the bumped-up storage and RAM, it has all the same specifications as the original Galaxy S8+ including an Exynos 8895 SoC, and an 18.5:9 6.2-inch Infinity Display with curved sides.
Samsung[5] also unveiled[6] its brand new Galaxy Note 8[7] this week, and the company is desperate to put the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco[8] behind it once and for all. It has emerged that the new model has a 3300mAh battery which is smaller than the problematic 3500mAh one which caused so much trouble last year. Samsung has now stated that this was a deliberate decision to prevent accidents[9] caused by cramming a large battery into a small space with no room to expand when hot. Samsung says that battery life should not be lower because its new 10nm processors are more power efficient.
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