Alpha Galaxy: Presentation on August 4? – CNET.de

of Christian Schartel on 30 . July 2014 , clock 15:32

The Samsung Galaxy Alpha to be unveiled on August 4, according to reports. It is expected with a 4.8-inch HD display, 32 GB internal memory and a fingerprint scanner. The case – or just parts of it – should be made of metal.

Android – Smartphone Samsung Galaxy Alpha is after months of speculation and rumors in a few days, see on 4 August, the light of publicity. The SamMobile reported, citing a Trusted Source.

The Samsung Galaxy Alpha (right) are compared with the Samsung Galaxy S5 (Photo: SamMobile)

As the specialist on Samsung’s website already wrote last week, it will be at the Samsung Galaxy Alpha not expected to be a new Samsung flagship that bring a hochkarätigere features than the Galaxy S5 or the Apple iPhone is 6 einheizen, but a smart phone for middle class area. It was to be located between the Galaxy Mini S5 and S5.

The Alpha will feature a 4.8-inch display which provides a HD resolution of 1,280 x 720 pixels. The internal memory should be greater with 32 GB as usual for this price range, but not be expandable via microSD card. Additional facilities include reportedly also Samsung’s fingerprint scanner. What is the resolution the camera offers remains to be seen. The S5 Mini comes with 8, the S5 with 16 megapixels. The new Samsung device will most likely also support LTE and appear in some markets, in addition as LTE-A variant. The operating system Android 4.4 KitKat is used.

The special feature of the Samsung Galaxy Alpha is supposed to be a metal housing. SamMobile had already released last week photos that show the back of the device. It looks similar to that of the Galaxy S5 and also has the typical pattern – even if they somewhat finer precipitates. To be made of metal, but this seems not. Perhaps, only the display frame is not out of the plastic commonly used. Whether the housing is protected against dust and water as the mini and standard S5, is not yet known

. [Update: 31.07.2014]

As the website All about Samsung reports that the date for the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Alpha is said to have changed at short notice. The smartphone to be unveiled now until 13 August.

In addition, the report considers some more details about the features of the device ready. When the CPU is to be used Samsungs eight-core Exynos chip Mali-T628 including Octa 5433 GPU. The RAM is 2 GB in size. In AnTuTu Benachmark test, which reveals the data that the smartphone reached almost 39,000 points. It thus offers a slightly better performance than a Galaxy Note 3 The camera fires reported to have 12 megapixel. The SIM card format should be Nanosim. As already suggested, only the display frame shall be constructed of metal. The back should thus, as usual, made of plastic.