14 DAY TRIAL // The unveiling of the Galaxy S8 is important for Samsung, as it would be the first flagship phone that the company announces since the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco. Samsung wishes the S8 to catch the attention of the market, which is why it will release a variant with 6GB of RAM.
Before the Galaxy Note 7 was released last year, there were rumors that a 6GB RAM variant would be made available in China. The Note 7 was later launched, but the powerful variant never saw the light of day.
It’s unclear if Samsung indeed had plans to make such a model available to Chinese customers, but it would make sense, since the market is much more competitive than in other corners of the world and consumers there are used to seeing phones with 6GB of RAM offered by local manufacturers.
After a KGI analyst stated a few days ago that a 6GB variant of Galaxy S8 was in the works, Kevin Wang, a China-based analyst who works as a Research Director at IHS, seems to back up this information.
Galaxy S8 with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage for China
He believes that the international variant of the Galaxy S8 will have 4GB of RAM, while the version sold in China will come with 6GB. Previous reports have said that such a powerful model would also come with 128GB of internal storage, compared to 64GB for the international market.
The Galaxy S8 with 6GB of RAM would make its way to the market in China only. This doesn’t seem unlikely, considering that Samsung already sells the C9 Pro with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage in China, one of the most competitive smartphone markets in the world.
Aside from this, the new phone is also expected to have facial-recognition technology, which would support mobile payments within months of its release, according to Bloomberg. We’ll just have to wait for the March 29 unveiling to see what Samsung has in store.