Finally, after a thousand of speculations, the Samsung Galaxy A8 is now officially announced.

It is the company's thinnest phone to date. The handset has a profile of just 5.9mm and packs a 5.7-inch Full HD Super AMOLED display.

The phone specs are as following:

 mid-range Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 SoC

 2 GB RAM

 onboard storage can be either 16GB or 32GB

 microSD card slot

 memory expansion slot is shared with the second SIM slot so you can't get both dual-SIM and microSD at the same time

 4G LTE

 dual-band Wi-Fi

 Bluetooth 4.1

 GPS with Glonass and Beidou support

 NFC

 3,050 mAh battery.

The 32GB variant will carry a price tag of 3,499 CNY ($564) and 3,199 CNY ($515) for the base model.