Samsung and their Galaxy Alpha (S801), opinions

In summer 2014, at August Samsung announced their new model Galaxy Alpha (S801)

Extra

Additional features on Galaxy Alpha (S801) are - ANT+ support - Dropbox (50 GB cloud storage) - MP4/WMV/H.264 player - MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+/FLAC player - Photo/video editor - Document viewer.

About battery of this device, it has Removable Li-Ion 1860 mAh battery.

Fingerprint (front-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, heart rate sensors are supported on this Galaxy Alpha (S801).

I/O variants

Galaxy Alpha (S801) supporting networks EDGE, GPRS, 2G, 3G and LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 7(2600), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500) - G8508S. Speed is about HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE Cat4 150/50 Mbps, GSM / HSPA / LTE, LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 17(700) - G850A, SM-G850W.

Ports on Galaxy Alpha (S801) are GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, USB microUSB 2.0, WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot, Bluetooth 4.0, A2DP, EDR, LE, NFC.

Talking about camera

In Galaxy Alpha (S801) Samsung engineers decided to install 12 MP sensor with aperture of camera f/2.2 with focal 31mm. And another additional information are phase detection autofocus, LED flash. Video recording on main camera of Samsung Galaxy Alpha (S801) is supported with 2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, 720p@120fps choices. This is not bad for example one of available devices at the moment, LG G Vista, 12 MP camera sensor is installed in this devide. Some another additional info are laser autofocus, LED flash. Video camera on main camera of Samsung Galaxy Alpha (S801) is supported with 1080p@30fps modes

The phone got 12 megapixels selfie camera. Some another additional features are 2.

Physical

Samsung made their Galaxy Alpha (S801) model with width 65.5mm, height 132.4mm and tickness 6.7mm.

You can buy the model in charcoal black, sleek silver, dazzling white, frosted gold finally scuba blue.

Samsung Galaxy Alpha (S801) display made using tehnology Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, on that point Galaxy Alpha (S801) was winning only 38% devices available by larger display, which is 4.7 inches, 60.9 cm2 (~70.2% screen-to-body ratio) screen with resolution 720 x 1280 pixels h/w is 16:9, having density 312 pixels in 1 inch supports multi touch, about display protection we can inform that it's corning Gorilla Glass 4.

Core

The version owed processor Quad-core 2.5 GHz Krait 400, with chipset Qualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801, Graphic card on the device is Adreno 330.

Memory on this device is 32 GB, 2 GB RAM, no external card slot supported, OS is Android 4.4.4 (KitKat), planned upgrade to 5.0 (Lollipop).