Microsoft now sells Samsung Galaxy Note 8 online

Microsoft has started selling Samsung Galaxy Note 8 from its online store that comes packed with preinstalled apps like virtual assistant Cortana, Word, Excel, OneNote and Outlook. Dubbed as the Microsoft Edition, Samsung Galaxy Note 8 also includes Microsoft Launcher, Android Authority reported on Sunday.

“This comes just after it began selling the Razer Phone and the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus last week,” the website said.

Microsoft Launcher helps users with personalised feed, housing access to calendar, documents and recent activities. Galaxy Note 8 has industryfirst ‘Infinity Display’. The 6.3-inch display with a resolution of 1440 x 2960 pixels delivered sharp and deep colours.

The edge-to-edge display with 18.5:9 aspect ratio offered maximum viewing area. The device with 6 GB RAM and 64 GB inbuilt storage (expandable up to 256 GB) houses a 64bit Exynos 8895 octa-core SoC (system on chip), handling heavy-graphics games with ease with ‘Vulkan API’ support. Samsung has also made the ‘S-Pen’ more powerful.

According to media reports, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has confirmed that Microsoft will “make more phones, but they will not look like phones that are there today.