Samsung Galaxy Alpha preview: First look
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- Dr. Tarique
- uWT
- 14 Aug 2014
Battery should be at least 28 amph and display size must be 5"
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- mortuus
- Tu2
- 14 Aug 2014
shame the battery is so weak even worse then s3 and no sd slot.. sorry way to expensive for what u get :(
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- Dr. Tarique
- uWT
- 14 Aug 2014
Please change the camera style it looks like galaxy s5 & galaxy Note 3.
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- AnonD-10363
- H4v
- 14 Aug 2014
Anonymous, 14 Aug 2014The iPhone 6 is rumoured to have 20nm too, so it could be a... moreYeah.. Its going to be interesting.
Looks like once again TSMC will not be able to deliver (enough) A8 chips as their 20nm process is facing issues, so Apple might have to return to Samsung again.
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- Anonymous
- m77
- 14 Aug 2014
AnonD-10363, 14 Aug 2014Right buddy! People are just ignoring this fact on every t... moreThe iPhone 6 is rumoured to have 20nm too, so it could be a close thing.
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- Prem Kumar A
- CV5
- 14 Aug 2014
Anonymous, 14 Aug 2014IMHO, the S2 was the best design put out by Samsung and I'm... moreAmong the droids by Samsung, samsung S2 looks best, But my favorite among Samsung phones is Samsung wave, Full metal body that looks stunning. Samsung never took the wave design to its droids.
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- AnonD-10363
- H4v
- 14 Aug 2014
Anonymous, 14 Aug 2014It's not like batteries were great before 20nm so just beca... morethey did it to keep the device as slim as possible.
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- AnonD-54166
- P@T
- 14 Aug 2014
Samsung use Galaxy Alpha to test ability of Iphone 6 as the first weapon then build a new flagship (May be Galaxy S6) as the second weapon on the market.
Very good strategy!
Galaxy Alpha is small knife but small knife can also kill if use in the right place.
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- AnonD-149646
- iL@
- 14 Aug 2014
I wish the screen was 1080
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- Sun
- 428
- 14 Aug 2014
Unexpandable memory? You guys must be following Iphone and Nokia? Isn't it? A few Smart things that are needed for a smart phone is Speed, memory and a large capacity battery. Chinese phones rule with all these. For Samsung and Apple, changing the bezel and design is all they have got in their every new phone. Nothing really technically.
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- Anonymous
- 0BG
- 14 Aug 2014
AnonD-10363, 14 Aug 2014Right buddy!
People are just ignoring this fact on every t... moreIt's not like batteries were great before 20nm so just because they made a more energy efficient cpu doesn't mean they should reduce battery capacity. Not to mention screen and radio (GPS, WiFi, 3G) still uses as much.
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- AnonD-53326
- MZu
- 14 Aug 2014
I can't deny that I really like this phone. First I would wait for a battery test but if it is decent I would consider this over the z1 compact. Z3 compact is on the other hand arriving soon and my guess is that it will be much better. Always happy to see more high end offerings in the mid size screen bracket.
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- AnonD-10363
- H4v
- 14 Aug 2014
Anonymous, 14 Aug 20146.7mm thin and user-removable battery. this fact actually... moreBeing optimistic, I too guess 65+ hours endurance rating for this device.
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- AnonD-10363
- H4v
- 14 Aug 2014
AnonD-5666, 14 Aug 2014People are forgetting that this is the 1st mobile SOC built... moreRight buddy!
People are just ignoring this fact on every thread and blindly thrashing Samsung for using a smaller battery. Open your eyes guys!!
The first 20nm mobile SoC is out and no one is talking a word about it.
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- AnonD-294337
- sXX
- 14 Aug 2014
this phone looks awesome!... i wish the new note 4 would have this nice aluminium frame, and an sd card slot, of course
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- 20nm
- iFq
- 14 Aug 2014
Exynos 5430 is the first 20nm ARM CPU in the world, and should be more efficient that any of the other ARM CPU in power consumption
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8382/samsung-announces-exynos-5430-first-20nm-samsung-soc
It also has HEVC hardware decoder. Snapdragon 801 doesn't have this (but snap 805 has it though)
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- AnonD-10363
- H4v
- 14 Aug 2014
Anonymous, 14 Aug 2014The size of the screen HAS to have an impact on the battery... moreI didn't say that screen size (or rather pixel size) will not have any impact at all.
What I actually meant was, screen resolution has more effect on power consumption than screen size.
5.1 inch to 4.7 inch is only a small reduction whereas over 2 million pixels on S5 vs just less than a million pixels on Alpha is more than 50% reduction in the number of LED's to power, which is actually more significant than the reduction in size.
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- mico
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- 14 Aug 2014
AnonD-221566, 14 Aug 2014My S2 is barely able to last 5hrs and that has a 1650mAh ba... morepower efficiency is definitely improving, just compare even last year Snapdragon 600 with Snapdragon 800. Phones with the latter chip have much better battery life
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- AnonD-284089
- MBq
- 14 Aug 2014
anonymous, 14 Aug 2014Hi guys. What do you think of its audio capabilities on vid... morestop trolling. nothing comes close to lumia 1020 atm.
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- darkgamer
- 9xn
- 14 Aug 2014
AnonD-5666, 14 Aug 2014People are forgetting that this is the 1st mobile SOC built... moreGreat comment, thanks for the information