Samsung has raised the official curtain on the Galaxy A8, its latest mid-range smartphone in the A series, which also includes the Galaxy A3, A5, and A7. Indeed, the last device in the range was the Galaxy A7 and the new Galaxy A8 now unseats that handset as the thinnest Samsung has ever made.

At just 5.9mm thin, the A8 is svelte and it is also light at 151 grams, which we think is incredible considering the device is a true phablet with a 5.7-inch screen. That panel is a Super AMOLED Full HD 1080p display, while the specs include a 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor clocked at 1.5GHz and paired with 2GB of RAM.

Samsung is offering two storage variants, 16GB or 32GB, but media hounds will be happy to see the company included a micro SD card too, something it didn’t do with the Galaxy S6 flagship. A decent camera set up has been added by Samsung too, with a 16 megapixel lens serving as the primary shooter and a 5 megapixel dealing with selfie duties around the front. A 3050 mAh battery should keep things ticking along for a decent amount of time, although that will depend on whether Sammy’s own TouchWiz drains the juicer quickly or not. Samsung’s software UI is here over Android 5.1 Lollipop.

As Samsung unveiled the Galaxy A8 on its Chinese website, we presume it will be landing in that country first. The handset will undoubtedly arrive in other regions later on though, although no pricing details have been offered yet.