The Galaxy A8 Plus was updated this month to Android Oreo in Brazil,
it's time to redo our tests to see how the device's performance is
and also analyze its battery life.
The tests you will see here are exactly the same as before,
done under the same conditions, so we will know if Oreo is well optimized for the Galaxy A8 Plus.
We started with the speed test, where we opened up a dozen apps to see how long the Galaxy A8 Plus
takes to open them, and also if it is able to hold everything opened with its 4 GB of RAM.
What we see is that the Oreo update left the Galaxy A8 Plus a little slower,
it took 5 more seconds on the first lap compared to the previous Nougat test,
on the second lap, however, we had the same time as before.
In practice, this should not make a big difference as apps remain opened in the background.
If in our speed test we had a slight loss with the Oreo,
in the benchmarks we had a gain; at least on AnTuTu and GeekBench.
Curiously, the graphic part showed a small drop, especially in 3D Mark.
The A8 Plus's GPU is not one of the strongest, and even unfortunate against its competitors,
but gaming performance at least has not undergone any critical change with Oreo.
Games that are locked on Android to run at 30 fps will be in this range on the A8 Plus,
as seen in Asphalt 8 and Injustice 2.
But the titles that reach 60 fps, do not always achieve this performance in the Samsung smartphone.
The only game that presented inferior result in the Oreo was the Modern Combat 5,
which delivers quite unstable performance.
Anyway, playing games on the Galaxy A8 Plus is not a problem,
maybe only for those who are addicted to PUBG Mobile,
which delivered a rather laggy gameplay in the medium settings.
Even when switching to the lowest setting, it's still difficult to hold 30 fps on the Galaxy A8 Plus.
If the upgrade to Android Oreo did not have a strong impact on the performance on the Galaxy A8 Plus,
it didn't affect the recharging times either.
We put the uncharged device in the socket, and after half an hour,
we had 38% of juice, reaching 76% with an hour plugged in.
The Galaxy A8 Plus took 1 hour and 43 minutes to have its battery fully recharged,
being practically the same time as before in our test with the Nougat.
With the battery fully recharged,
we put a video in Full HD to play on the Super AMOLED screen of the A8.
Here it was possible to watch videos for 16 hours and 37 minutes,
surpassing even the previous test with the Nougat.
We also put the Galaxy A8 Plus to record videos until the battery was completely drained
and it was able to record videos in Full HD for 6 hours and 1 minute,
which is a very good result, but that was below what we had in our previous test with Nougat.
And for those who enjoy making video calls, we also did a Skype test,
using the front camera of the A8 Plus for video calling.
Here we had a small gain compared to the previous test with the Nougat,
reaching 5 hours and 7 minutes. It's a small difference, but any gain is always welcomed.
In more real use with various apps and games, we unplugged the A8 Plus at 7 o'clock in the morning,
and it was only discharged early next morning, with more than 8 hours of screen time.
Its autonomy was already good with the Android Nougat, and it remains the same with the Android Oreo.
The Galaxy A8 Plus may not have the best gaming performance in its price range,
but its battery yields well for those who play a lot, with an average, all games tested,
we've reached almost 7 hours away from the socket.
And even heavier titles, which do not run well on the device,
it delivered 6 hours of autonomy, as in this case, with PUBG Mobile.
The Galaxy A8 Plus showed a slight loss in performance with the upgrade to Android Oreo,
in practice, many should not even notice the difference,
but those who play games may notice that some titles run a little slower than before.
Battery life was not affected. The device
takes the same time as before to recharge and its battery lasts the same.
In some tests we had a small gain, while others have a slight reduction,
which ends up leveling the results.
For anyone that in doubt whether or not updated to the new version of Android, you can do it without fear,
that your Galaxy A8 Plus will not be negatively affected because of this.
And if you do not already have the Samsung mid-range, you can find good deals on the device in the description of the video.
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Here was Francisco Lucena, and see you next time.
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