Samsung Galaxy Alpha – the official announcement – PCLab.pl

The South Korean giant announced officially new smartphone – Samsung Galaxy Alpha, which is smaller and (in part) metal equivalent of the Samsung Galaxy S5, although this does not end the differences. His announcement, after numerous leaks, it was only a matter of time. Technical specification suggests that you can expect fierce competition between smartphone and presented the upcoming iPhone 6

Samsung Galaxy Alpha

Samsung Galaxy Alpha – the unofficial specification

Samsung made a move just before the official announcement of Apple’s highly anticipated handset to be announced on September 9 this year . Samsung Galaxy Alpha is a gaunt version of the Galaxy S5, and the case is almost a millimeter thinner than the iPhone 5S (7.6 mm). The thickness represents only 6.7 mm (other dimensions are 132.4 x 65.5 mm and weighing 114 g). I must admit that Koreans are tried, but it is not all the changes that have made Samsung. Pokuszono also about the use of metal frame referring to Apple’s designs.

But let’s now turn to specifics – the heart of the device is ośmiordzeniowy Exynos 5430 system developed in the 20-nanometer technological dimension. Thus, it is the first device powered by the SoC (ang. System on Chip ). It consists of four core Cortex-A15 running at a frequency of 1.8 GHz and quad-core Cortex-A7 1.3 GHz. The processor works with the ARM Mali graphics chip clocked-628MP6 at 533 MHz. It is worth mentioning that in the plans of the company is also a version with a processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 2.5 GHz 801.

The smartphone will also find 2 GB RAM, 32 GB of onboard memory, but unfortunately we will not data put the microSD card, 12-megapixel digital camera (rear) recording movies in 4K resolution at 30 frames per second, 2.1-megapixel webcam for video chats (front) and a rather disappointing battery capacity of 1860 mAh (compared to the Galaxy S5 2800 mAh). And as with the screen? It’s still super AMOLED, but Samsung attempted to decrease – to the model Galaxy S5 – diagonal to 4.7 “and the resolution to” only “720p.

Samsung Galaxy Alpha is running an operating system Google Android 4.4 KitKat with the overlay user interface – TouchWiz, and can boast of technological solutions with the Samsung Galaxy S5, such as a fingerprint reader, mode to conserve power or heart rate monitor. To complete happiness may be missing some water and pyłoodporności. The newly announced smartphone also supports a basic package of connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac, 4G LTE, Bluetooth 4.0 and NFC.

Sales of the Samsung Galaxy Alpha will be launched in September this year in 150 countries. At the beginning of the device will be available in these different colors: Charcoal Black (Carbon Black), Dazzling White (brilliant white), Frosted Gold (matte gold), Sleek Silver (elegant silver) and Scuba Blue (marine blue). Price smartphone will be low, as will be 599 euros.

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