If you’re reading this, I’m going to the Samsung Galaxy Alpha since Monday morning, which is about one hundred hours, have at me. Time enough to deal somewhat with the device. Time enough for a first personal conclusion.
The smartphone is the way my very own, and not excepted from Samsung test device. Yes, the Alpha has in the so hooked me one hour at IFA that I have pre-ordered it immediately after returning from Berlin. Something that surprised myself, I did not just applies but commonly referred to as large Samsung-friend.
Software
The reason is simple, and is called TouchWiz. Adjustments to the Android interface can enhance and improve the cell phone, and TouchWiz has to offer. To me it is simply too colorful and playful. The first step in a new droid in the household is always to install the Nova launcher and customize to your own personalized management. That’s the beauty of Android: No device must be the same. I put on a very reduced, gesture-based setup.
Upgrades by Samsung pull unfortunately a rat tail of pre-installed apps with it. These can uninstall Although, after a system update, they were in the past with other models right back with it. Of course, again according to the motto “Two is better than” been doing, who do not like Chrome remains in Internet, calendar and S Planner lead to coexist and for all forms of media playback, there is not only the play-Apps, but also something own of Samsung. Sure, you can avoid all this, but if I have to make do with 32 GB expandable memory, and the system not directly claimed more than 6 GB for itself, I like free choice of installed programs.
Once it reliable Cyanogenmod ROMs for the Galaxy Alpha is – yet you have not even it can rooten – I’m going to step in that direction anyway. The software is for me but not the selling point was.
Hardware
The Alpha looks great. It holds good, despite the slim line is still comfortable to hold and has a high quality finish. Only the removable adhesive backing in a known patch optics tarnishes this impression, in dark gray version it goes. I am curious what bring third-party soon to alternatives on the market. A Black Edition with imitation leather, I could see myself working for the Alpha, especially the Galaxy Note 4 fooling this.
The really white gray Google Now.
What bothers me the Alpha besides the above-mentioned software , its hardware is unfortunately the display. SAMOLED have to like it or not, I tend to the latter. In plan view, all is well, because of the Pentile matrix are slight edge to guess, but nothing dramatic. But as soon as you change the angle, the screen is very bluish. Samsung offers color profiles, but which saturation has the blue, I could not care less basically. Again, I put my hope in a reasonable calibration option.
TouchID I use the iPhone 5s very much like to unlock the device. Press, hold, Home Screen. The fingerprint sensor of the Samsung Galaxy Alpha is unfortunately the version string instrument. After several unsuccessful Entsperrversuchen that all ended in the smartphone to turn it so that I do not have the hand break me, I have disabled the option again. During the next hundred hours I will probably invest time in it to register multiple diagonals per finger at different angles and try again.
battery power
I currently have only a nano-SIM in the house, and because it remains in the 5s, the Alpha is currently not yet in full-time operation. Experience about the battery in daily use I can tell you so unfortunately not deliver reliable, but yesterday I jokingly ever let through my screen test in which I run a YouTube video on maximum brightness.
The Samsung Galaxy Alpha reached in my opinion, quite good value of 5 hours and 50 minutes in this case. It is important to note that the last 5% of the remaining capacity has no more control over the display brightness
Margin Notes
- Notification LED in bright colors is aboard.
- If you set the app list on the Home button in the Nova Launcher, nervous physical buttons already.
- The buttons also annoying when you’re used to from Moto G, the smartphone below lift on the side and thus constantly calls the recent apps. But is a matter of habit.
- “Is there already the battery in it? Not yet, ne? “The Alpha is actually extremely easy.
- The device loses from time to connect to my home wireless. It closes with ‘authentication error occurred “and connects usually within 10 seconds again.
- I admit it does not restore.
Despite all the criticisms I maintain that the Samsung Galaxy Alpha is one of the best devices of the Koreans. A Google Play Edition would be a dream.
Did you already a Samsung Galaxy Alpha or planning to purchase?
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