SAMSUNG GALAXY ALPHA REVIEW

Samsung launched its premium high end android smartphone namely Galaxy Alpha which is priced @ 40,999/-. It is available is Black, White, Blue, Gold & Silver shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY

The design of this phone is good. It has corning glass 4 on front, metal frame surrounding its sides and a polycarbonate back and feels quite good in hands. It is slim at 6.7mm and weighs 115gms. It has 4.7 inch HD Super AMOLED display of resolution 720 x 1280 with 312 ppi. The viewing angles are pretty good and sunlight legibility of the display is average. It runs on Touch Wiz User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is very good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS

It has 32GB of internal storage which is not further expandable. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like music for songs, a gallery to store all images and videos and a movie player for playing movies respectively which are quite good. FM radio comes pre-installed. Conductivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42.2mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, Wifi a/b/g/n/ac, Wifi dual-band, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt as well as Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Energy) & NFC. But also has USB OTG and lacks IR blaster.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES

It has a 12MP rear camera with autofocus and Led flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc and other modes as well. The camera clarity is Great overall. Daytime the images are great and has good amount of details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become bit visible visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is quite nice. It does 4K UHD 2160p@30fps, FULL HD 1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound but lacks HDR having bit-rate of 49mbps,18mbps respectively and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is Great overall. Daytime the video clarity is great and has good amount of details respectively but at night video clarity is quite nice. It also has a 2.1MP front camera for selfe's with 1080p video recording and clarity is pretty good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS

It runs Android (OS) 4.4.4 Kitkat out of the box upgradable to Android 5.0 Lollipop. It has a Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa (5430) processor running a quad core 1.8 GHZ (Cortex-A15) & quad core 1.3 GHZ (Cortex-A7) with 2GB RAM and Mali T628 MP6 GPU (Hexa core) GPU. The performance is great which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no lag at all.

QUADRANT : 25112.

ANTUTU : 38156.

NENAMARK 2 : 59.3fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE

It has a removable Li-Ion 1860 mah battery. The battery life is Pretty Good which is given below.

BROWSING : upto 8:30H.

VIDEO WATCHING: upto 8:10H.

TALKTIME : upto 16H(2G) / upto 13H(3G).

STANDBY TIME: upto 430 H(2G) / upto 410 H(3G).

PROS

*Very good build quality.
*Excellent display and viewing angle.
*One of the first to feature Corning Gorilla glass 4.
*Excellent Performance.

*Great camera and video recording clarity.

*NFC & USB OTG.
*Fingerprint sensor with Paypal certified. 

*Pretty good loudspeaker.
*Removable battery.

CONS

*No dedicated camera key.
*Battery should have had slightly higher capacity.
*No IR Blaster & Micro SD card slot.
*No waterproof features as on galaxy s5 mini.

*Bit pricy. 

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.6/10.

°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.