Samsung today officially launched its much-leaked Galaxy A8 in China. The A8 is the Korean company’s thinnest smartphone ever, with a waistline that is only 5.9mm thin.

The 151gm handset features a metal mid frame with the front and back being made of glass. The front of the handset sports a 5.7-inch Super AMOLED display with 1080p resolution. Located just below it are the capacitive menu and back buttons, with a physical home button between it that comes with an integrated fingerprint scanner, just like the one seen on the Galaxy S6.

Under the hood, the handset is powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 615 chipset which contains four cores running at 1.5GHz and four low-power cores running at 1GHz. It also packs in 2GB RAM with 16/32GB of internal storage and a microSD card slot.

On the front, the Galaxy A8 comes with a 5MP shooter with an F/1.9 aperture and a 120 degree wide-angle lens, while the back is graced by a 16MP ISOCELL shooter. The handset also features a beastly 3050mAh battery, which while non-removable, is enough to power the handset for 304 hours on standby mode.

The Galaxy A8 runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop with the latest version of Samsung’s TouchWiz on top of it. The company has tweaked its skin according to the taste of the Chinese consumers and has added features like unknown caller identification, custom localisation page, free 10TB of storage on Samsung Cloud, and more.

Samsung has not announced the official price of the handset yet, along with a concrete release date, but it should not be long now before the company does so.

What do you think about Samsung’s thinnest Galaxy device yet?