Samsung Galaxy Alpha Specification Advantages Disadvantages and Price

Samsung Galaxy Alpha

Before you to buy Samsung Galaxy Alpha should first check the advantages, disadvantages, price and specifications below.

Advantages of Samsung Galaxy Alpha:

Samsung comes with latest Android Kitkat version 4.4.2 OS.
Samsung offers 4.7 inch with super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, TBD screen protection and multiple touch with Galaxy Alpha.
It is powered by Quad-core 1.8 GHz Cortex-A15 & quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A7 and loaded with chipset Exynos 5 Octa 5430 and it incorporated with 2GB B RAM, 32 GB internal storage.
It comes with a finger-print scanner and Ultra-Power Saving Mode app.
It offers 12MP rear camera and 2.1MP front camera with high resolution autofocus, LED flash,Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection features.
Supports almost Connectivity like bluetooth, Wifi, 3G HSPA+, 4G LTE, NFC and USB.
It comes with many handset colors like Charcoal Black, Sleek Silver, Dazzling White, Frosted Gold, Scuba Blue.
It looks stylish, slim and light design.
Supports Nano SIM.

Disadvantages of Samsung Galaxy Alpha:

Absence of MicroSD card slot that leads to no more extension than 32GB.
Another big drawback is lack of water-proofing for this range of mobile.
No Gorilla Glass feature as it is common for present mobiles.
Very weak battery life.

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Samsung Galaxy Alpha Specification

NETWORK Technology
GSM / HSPA / LTE

LAUNCH Announced 2014, August
Status Available. Released 2014, September

BODY Dimensions 132.4 x 65.5 x 6.7 mm (5.21 x 2.58 x 0.26 in)
Weight 115 g (4.06 oz)

SIM Nano-SIM

- Fingerprint sensor (PayPal certified)

DISPLAY Type Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 4.7 inches (~70.2% screen-to-body ratio)

Resolution 720 x 1280 pixels (~312 ppi pixel density)

Multitouch Yes

Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 4

PLATFORM OS Android OS, v4.4.4 (KitKat), upgradable to v5.0.2 (Lollipop)
Chipset Exynos 5 Octa 5430

CPU Quad-core 1.8 GHz Cortex-A15 & quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A7

GPU Mali-T628 MP6

MEMORY Card slot No
Internal 32 GB, 2 GB RAM

CAMERA Primary 12 MP, 4608 x 2592 pixels, autofocus, LED flash,
Features Dual camera, geo-tagging, touch focus, face/smile detection, panorama, HDR

Video 2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, 720p@120fps,

Secondary 2.1 MP

SOUND Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes

3.5mm jack Yes

COMMS WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
Bluetooth v4.0, A2DP, EDR, LE

GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS

NFC Yes

Radio No

USB microUSB v2.0

FEATURES Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, heart rate
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM

Browser HTML5

Java No

- ANT+ support

- Dropbox (50 GB cloud storage)

- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic

- MP4/WMV/H.264 player

- MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+/FLAC player

- Photo/video editor

- Document viewer

BATTERY Li-Ion 1860 mAh battery
Stand-by Up to 350 h (3G)

Talk time Up to 11 h (3G)

Music play Up to 37 h

MISC Colors Charcoal Black, Sleek Silver, Dazzling White, Frosted Gold, Scuba Blue
SAR US 1.18 W/kg (head) 0.75 W/kg (body)

SAR EU 0.37 W/kg (head) 0.51 W/kg (body)

Price group 8/10 (About 410 EUR)

TESTS Performance Basemark OS II: 915 / Basemark OS II 2.0: 1054
Basemark X: 11065

Display Contrast ratio: Infinite (nominal), 3.509 (sunlight)

Camera Photo / Video

Loudspeaker Voice 66dB / Noise 61dB / Ring 75dB

Audio quality Noise -95.7dB / Crosstalk -65.6dB

Battery life

Endurance rating 52h