Samsung Galaxy Alpha Review

Samsung Galaxy Alpha is an amazing device, packed with an extremely powerful Quad-Core processing unit running at 2500 MHz, a 4.7-inches multi-touch display, a 12 MP back facing camera and a 2.1 megapixels front-facing camera. Let's take a deeper view of what this phone can do.

This cellphone is equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 system chip, packing a high performance Quad-Core processor clocking at 2.5 gigahertz and a big 2 GB RAM. To collaborate with graphic intensive apps and games, it also counts with an Adreno 330 graphic processing unit running at 450 megahertz. The Samsung Galaxy Alpha comes with a 32 GB great internal memory and although it doesn't count with an external memory slot, it is still enough to install lots of apps, games, songs, photos and videos without having to worry about how much memory is left.

The Samsung Galaxy Alpha is extremely thin, being just 0.26" thick. This cellphone is a very compact cellphone, taking into account that it features a 4.7 inches display and it has just 5.21" long and 2.58" wide. This cellphone is available in many different colors, black, gray, blue, white and gold. Samsung did an amazing optimization job making the Samsung Galaxy Alpha weight only 4.06 oz.

The Alpha has a high-tech 1280 x 720 (HD) 4.7 inches screen, giving this cellphone a delightful graphic quality. Its screen uses Super AMOLED capacitive technology, and has multi-touch detection.

This device offers Wi-Fi connection (which can be shared with other devices acting as a wireless modem), LTE-A 4G high bandwidth connection and also HSPA+ data connection (a slower 4G type) and the fastest 3G connection type, over HSDPA and EDGE technologies. This phone uses a Nano SIM card for GSM networks.

The Samsung Galaxy Alpha is equipped with two cameras, a 12 mega-pixels back side camera and a 2.1 MP front-facing camera. It also films videos up to 3840x2160 (4K) at 30 frames per second, and HD 1280x720 slow-motion videos at 120 frames per second (4 times slower than reality). The camera also includes a high number of valuable characteristics: auto-focus, flash, digital image stabilization, fast burst mode, smile detection shooting, face detection shooting, geo tagging and HDR mode.

This cellphone comes with a mid capacity 1860 mAh Li-Ion battery that provides this phone a below average battery life.

This phone also includes lots of great characteristics as Fingerprint Scanner, NFC, Bluetooth (allows communication with other phones, computers and accessories) and GPS Geolocation, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

This phone might be a little bit overpriced considering it is priced $ 320, while some similar phones can be found for less money. This phone is probably a great choice no matter if you want a cellphone to play tons of games, want it to take tons of photos, will use it mainly for social networks or want this phone for work.