Samsung Galaxy S Light Luxury With Wireless Charging, Face Unlock Launched: Price, Specifications

Highlights

• Galaxy S Light Luxury comes with wireless charging
• It comes with Android 8.0 Oreo out-of-the-box
• It has a rear camera with a 16-megapixel sensor

Samsung has been expected to launch a lite variant of the Galaxy S8 for quite some time. A new smartphone by the South Korean giant has been officially unveiled in China and instead of Galaxy S8 Mini or Galaxy S8 Lite - as were the rumours previously - the company is calling it Galaxy S Light Luxury model. According to the specifications, the Galaxy S Light Luxury appears to be a trimmed down variant of the popular Galaxy S8 smartphone. However, it still maintains the same design, including a Bixby button and a fingerprint scanner.
The Galaxy S Light Luxury has been listed on the company's China site, spotted by SamMobile. The key feature of the Samsung called Galaxy S Light Luxury version is that it comes with a display with 18.5:9 aspect ratio. While it does not have a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC, it comes with the Snapdragon 660. The smartphone also had water resistance Samsung Pay, wireless charging, Face Unlock, and an iris scanner. Also, the Galaxy S Light Luxury runs Android Oreo.

Samsung Galaxy S Light Luxury price, specifications

The Galaxy S Light smartphone is available from Chinese online shopping site JD.com, priced at CNY 3,999  and comes in both Black and Burgundy Red options. If you are early, you can pre-order it until June 1st for CNY 3699
The dual-SIM Samsung Galaxy S Light Luxury comes with Android 8.0 Oreo out-of-the-box. The smartphones sports a 5.8-inch full-HD+ (1080x2220 pixels) Infinity Display. It is powered by a quad-core processor clocked up to 2.2GHz, possibly the Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 SoC. It is paired with 4GB of RAM. In terms of optics, the Samsung Galaxy S Light Luxury comes with a rear camera with a 16-megapixel sensor with f/1.7 aperture and autofocus. Also, the smartphone features an 8-megapixel sensor at the front. The rear camera is able to capture videos at (UHD 4K).
Coming to storage, the Galaxy S Light Luxury is equipped with 64GB inbuilt storage, expandable via microSD card (up to 400GB) in a hybrid dual-SIM configuration. The connectivity options in the smartphone include 4G, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, GPS, NFC, Bluetooth v5.0, and USB Type-C, 3.5mm jack. Sensors onboard include Accelerometer, Barometer, Fingerprint Sensor, Gyroscope, Geomagnetic Sensor, Iris Sensor, RGB Light Sensor, Barometer, Proximity sensor, and more. The Samsung Galaxy S is fuelled by a 3000mAh battery. Also, the smartphone measures 148.9x68.1x8mm and weighs 150 grams.