Samsung Galaxy Alpha is finally official and it is one stunning and shiny device. It is really thin in-fact the thinnest phone Samsung has ever made. A body made of metal except for the back which is made of same fake or faux leather as Note 3. Anyway, Samsung has finally made a phone with metal frame(did i mention it’s shiny?) something its fans been asking for a long time. It’s also a ‘mini’ device by today’s standards.
I am calling it mini because phones that comes with a screen smaller than 5 inches now a days are considered as mini. It’s not a mini though. But it’s the only phone that can give Sony Xperia Z1 Compact some competition in terms of dimensions and specs. Anyway, here’s some info on the phone. It is only 6.7mm thick and weighs only 115 grams. It comes with a 4.7 inches Super Active Matrix Light Emitting Diode display of 720p/HD resolution.
Galaxy Alpha runs on Exynos 5430 chipset also formally called Exynos 5 this chipset is no joke. It contains 4 Cortex A15 processors clocked at 1.8GHz and 4 Cortex A7 processors clocked at 1.3GHz. Makes it look like a high-end and low-end phone at the same time. For GPU it has Mali T628 MP6(6 here i think, means 6 cores or hexa-core because MP4 means 4 cores). Told you its no joke.
Rest of the specs are, 12MP auto-focus camera with LED flash and 2.1MP front camera. It comes with Android 4.4.4 KitKat out of the box and i am pretty sure it is going to get Android L update sometime in the future. It comes with 32GB inbuilt storage and 2GB RAM with no micro-sd card slot. Connectivity wise it is a single sim device, only supports one nano-sim, Bluetooth 4.0 and WiFi is also on board of-course. 1860 mAh battery, which could be a little problematic looking at all the processing power this phone comes with. Be it li-ion or li-polymer the battery size is really very small. I guess that’s the best they could fit in a such a slim device.
All that power comes for a price though, it is a premium device. Just because it has a small screen doesn’t mean its going to be mid-ranger. It is priced at 599 Euros if you convert it in Rupees it will be something around Rs. 50,000 and in USD it will come around $800(i shouldn’t have had converted it). Moral of the story is, it’s not cheap and definitely not for budget-conscious people. Which basically means it’s not for poor people like me(-sigh-).