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XperiaJunkie
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Samsung announces the much hyped Galaxy Alpha
The Samsung Galaxy Alpha is a high end medium sized display smartphone from Samsung. The specs of the device are of flagship quality. The Galaxy Alpha is said to be a direct rival to the iPhone 6 with both devices set for a September release.
The Samsung Galaxy Alpha flagship has a 4.7" Super AMOLED with 720p resolution (320 ppi). The phone also has the Exynos 5 Octa built up of four Cortex-A15 cores (1.8GHz) and four Cortex-A7 cores (1.3GHz) ( no mention of a Snapdragon variant). There's 2GB of RAM and 32GB of fixed storage.
It runs Android 4.4.4 KitKat with TouchWiz on top including S Health and Ultra-low power mode. The phone also has a fingerprint reader, heart-rate sensor and will be compatible with the Samsung Gear smartwatches.
The main camera is a 12MP shooter accompanied by a 2.1MP front facing camera. The smartphone has all the usual features such as 4G, NFC, and a feature from the S5 called download booster (combines wifi with 4G) to give superb download speeds. The dimentions of Alpha are very impressive, 132.4 x 65.5 x 6.7 mm and has a 1860 mAh battery. The phone will be available in range of colours starting with the normal black and white variants along with gold, silver and blue.
The Galaxy Alpha is shaping up to be a fantastic device and will launch at a very interesting time. the prices is said to be about £500 again putting it right in the firing line of the up and coming iPhone 6.
First promo video of the new Samsung Galaxy Alpha
https://www.youtube.com/watch[....]=player_embedded&v=u8OZoyHvX78
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Bonovox
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Why such a small battery??
Phone?? What phone?? |
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A beautiful Mini device.
Just this.
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@Bono that's my thoughts as well 1860 mAh is very weak unless the CPU is very power efficient having said that the biggest power drain as with any other smartphone is the display. I feel Samsung compromised the battery by making the phone so thin also non expandable memory is a downside but most people will be happy with 32GB (approx 26GB available to user) storage. Personally I would choose the S5 Mini over the Alpha for 3 reasons, IP 68 rated an SD card slot and a slightly larger battery.
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itsjustJOH
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Announcing the Alpha almost a month before the iP6 means that Samsung does not intend it to go head to head with the next iPhone. I guess they are really confident about their Note 4.
About the Alpha, I wouldn't bet on it being a big seller. I'm pretty sure it would have a premium price tag, like S5 premium, and you only get a device with a lot of compromises to make it thinner (small battery capacity, most likely a small camera sensor, no SD card slot, no IP certifications).
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^ It is to be released the same week Apple announce the iPhone 6. I do think it is there to try and steal some of Apple's thunder but only time will tell.
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The Galaxy Alpha gets benchmarked and posted some very impressive results.
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsu[....]lpha_benchmarked-news-9329.php
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first review of the Alpha which includes camera samples and battery perfomance.
https://translate.google.com/[....]FSamsung_GALAXY_Alpha-rev.html
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This Alpha resembles me the S2. Anyone?
Yet it still looking nice, the battery, as you mentioned earlier, takes my eyes off of it.
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XperiaJunkie
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Does anyone know the formula to calculate screen to phone size ratio ?
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Lovely design 
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On 2014-08-13 14:44:36, XperiaJunkie wrote:
Does anyone know the formula to calculate screen to phone size ratio ?
Try this page: http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/aspect_ratio/
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itsjustJOH
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On 2014-08-13 14:44:36, XperiaJunkie wrote:
Does anyone know the formula to calculate screen to phone size ratio ?
Area of the screen divided by the area of the phone (width x height), I think.
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XperiaJunkie
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Sorry I think we have our wires crossed I mean screen to bezel ratio. The Galaxy Alpha's main rivals are likely to be the iPhone 6 and the Xperia Z3 Compact. With the increasing demand for smaller bezels it would be interesting to to find out what the Galaxy Alphas screen to bezel ratio is.
the Z3 Compact comes in at 69.85% (Z1 compact is 61.7%)
the iPhone 6 comes in at 64.83% (iPhone 5s is 60.6%)
Both have improvements over their previous models in that area which is good to see as the overall footprint in a compact flagship is vital to the user.
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It's super thin, made of metal and is far more compact than most other phones with the same specs and most importantly it is a Samsung, it is going to fly off the shelves if it is getting a truly global release. 
I hope the Galaxy Note 4 has the same metal frame  even more excited for the Note 4 now as this is a step in the right direction for Samsung.
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