Samsung Galaxy Alpha specs

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Design

Smart phone

Device type:
Android (5.1 Lollipop, 4.4.4)

Operating system:
Candybar

Form factor:
5.21 in x 2.58 in x 0.26 in

Dimensions:
4.06 oz

Weight:
Main body: plastic

Materials:
Touch sensitive control keys

Features:
Black, Gold, Gray, Blue, White

Available color options:

Display

4.7 in

Physical size :
Other (720x1280 pixels)

Display resolution:
Super AMOLED

Technology:
70.22%

Screen-to-body ratio:
16 777 216

Colors:
Yes (Capacitive, Multi-touch: Yes)

Touch screen:
Scratch-resistant glass (Corning Gorilla Glass 4), Ambient light sensor, Proximity sensor

Features:

Hardware

Samsung Exynos 5 Octa

System chip:
ARM Cortex-A15 and ARM Cortex-A7 (Octa-core,1800 MHz)

Processor model:
Yes (Mali-T628 MP6)

3D Graphics hardware accelerator:
2 GB

RAM:
- Dual-channel
  
  Memory architecture:
- LPDDR3
  
  Type:
32 GB

Built-in storage:
25 GB

Maximum User Storage:

Camera

Yes (12 megapixels)

Camera:
Yes (LED)

Flash:
F2.2

Aperture size:
31mm

Focal length (35mm equivalent):
Autofocus, CMOS image sensor

Hardware Features:
Manual focus, Digital image stabilization, Touch to focus, Smile detection, Face detection, Digital zoom, Geo tagging

Software Features:
Exposure compensation, ISO control, White balance presets

Settings:
Burst mode, High Dynamic Range mode (HDR), Panorama, Scenes, Effects

Shooting Modes:
Yes (3840x2160 (4K) (Frame rate: 30), 1920x1080 (1080p HD) (60 fps), 1280x720 (720p HD) (120 fps))

Video capture:
- High Dynamic Range mode (HDR), Digital image stabilization
  
  Features:
Yes (2.1 megapixels)

Additional camera:
- 1920x1080 (1080p HD)
  
  Video capture:

Battery

1860 mAh

Capacity:
Li-ion

Type:
Talk time (3G) : 11 hours / Music playback : 37 hours / Video playback : 10 hours

Battery times:

Multimedia

DLNA

Screen mirroring:
Music player:
- Album, Artist, Playlists
  
  Filter by:
- Album art cover, Background playback
  
  Features:
- MP3, AAC, FLAC, WMA, WAV, M4A (Apple lossless), AMR, OGG, MIDI
  
  Supported formats :
Video player:
- MPEG4, WMV, AVI, 3GP, 3G2, Flash Video, MKV, WebM
  
  Supports:
3.5mm

Headphones connector:
Earpiece, Loudspeaker

Speakers:

Internet browsing

Google Chrome
YouTube (upload), Picasa/Google+

Built-in online services support:

Cellular

GSM (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz), UMTS (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz), LTE (FDD) (Bands 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 20 )

Network technology:
LTE-A Cat 6 (300/50 Mbit/s), HSDPA+ (4G) 21.1 Mbit/s

Data:
Yes

nano-SIM:
Yes

Global roaming:

Phone features

Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass, Hall (for flip covers), Gesture

Sensors:
Haptic feedback, Music ringtones, Polyphonic ringtones, Vibration, Flight mode, Silent mode, Speakerphone

Notifications:
Unlimited entries, Caller groups, Multiple numbers per contact, Search by both first and last name, Picture ID, Ring ID

Phonebook:
Calendar, Alarm, Calculator

Organizer:
SMS, MMS, Threaded view, Predictive text input

Messaging:
Yes

E-mail:
- IMAP, POP3, SMTP, Microsoft Exchange
  
  Supports:
Voice dialing, Voice commands, Voice recording

Connectivity

Yes (4.0)

Bluetooth:
Yes (a, b, g, n, ac, dual-band)

Wi-Fi 802.11:
- Dual antennas, MIMO
- Yes
  
  Mobile Hotspot:
- Yes
  
  Wi-Fi Direct:
Yes (USB 2.0)

USB:
- Mass storage device, USB charging
  
  Features:
- microUSB
  
  Connector type :
microUSB

Charging connector:
NFC, ANT+, Tethering, Computer sync, OTA sync
GPS, A-GPS, Glonass

Positioning:
Yes

Navigation:

Regulatory Approval

Yes

Regulatory Approval:
A3LSMG850F

FCC ID value:
link

FCC ID link :
Aug 06, 2014

Date approved:
US SAR:
- 1.05 W/kg
  
  Head:
- 0.48 W/kg
  
  Body:
- 1.18 W/kg
  
  Simultaneous Transmission:
- 0.71 W/kg
  
  Wireless Router:

Availability

Available

Market status:
Sep 01, 2014

Release date:

US carrier availability

AT&T (Discontinued (Oct 09, 2015))

Carrier:

also know as: Samsung SM-G850A, Samsung SM-G850F

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Samsung Galaxy Alpha (view this variant) , Created by meetgadget on May 18, 2018

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Description: Apart from the metal frame, the Samsung Galaxy Alpha looks a lot like the Galaxy S5 in terms of design with similarly position buttons and overall styling. Hardware-wise the phone features a 4.7-inch 720p display, Exynos 5 Octa SOC with four cores running at 1.8GHz and four more at 1.3GHz, and 2GB of RAM. The build-in storage is 32GB and can't be expanded via MicroSD. There is 12 megapixels camera on the back (capable of 4K video... read more

Created by meetgadget , Last update by meetgadget , May 18, 2018

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Samsung Galaxy Alpha specs

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Multimedia

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Internet browsing

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Cellular

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