Samsung Galaxy Alpha Mobile Phone

NETWORK Technology

GSM / HSPA / LTE

LAUNCH Announced 2014, August

Status Available. Released 2014, September

BODY Dimensions 132.4 x 65.5 x 6.7 mm (5.21 x 2.58 x 0.26 in)

Weight 115 g (4.06 oz)

SIM Nano-SIM

  - Fingerprint sensor (PayPal certified)

DISPLAY Type Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

Size 4.7 inches (~70.2% screen-to-body ratio)

Resolution 720 x 1280 pixels (~312 ppi pixel density)

Multitouch Yes

Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 4

PLATFORM OS Android OS, v4.4.4 (KitKat), planned upgrade to v5.0 (Lollipop)

Chipset Exynos 5 Octa 5430

CPU Quad-core 1.8 GHz Cortex-A15 & quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A7

GPU Mali-T628 MP6

MEMORY Card slot No

Internal 32 GB, 2 GB RAM

CAMERA Primary 12 MP, 4608 x 2592 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

Features Dual camera, geo-tagging, touch focus, face/smile detection, panorama, HDR

Video 2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, 720p@120fps

Secondary 2.1 MP

SOUND Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones

Loudspeaker Yes

3.5mm jack Yes

COMMS WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot

Bluetooth v4.0, A2DP, EDR, LE

GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS

NFC Yes

Radio No

USB microUSB v2.0

FEATURES Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, heart rate

Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM

Browser HTML5

Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator

  - ANT+ support

- Dropbox (50 GB cloud storage)

- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic

- MP4/WMV/H.264 player

- MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+/FLAC player

- Photo/video editor

- Document viewer

BATTERY Li-Ion 1860 mAh battery

Stand-by Up to 350 h (3G)

Talk time Up to 11 h (3G)

Music play Up to 37 h

MISC Colors Charcoal Black, Sleek Silver, Dazzling White, Frosted Gold, Scuba Blue

SAR US 1.18 W/kg (head)     0.75 W/kg (body)    

SAR EU 0.37 W/kg (head)     0.51 W/kg (body)