Originally Posted by Jamie_Bradley:
“About the Samsung galaxy alpha lol.....
I think it's a sign that Samsung have realised they cannot compete with iPhones. I think this is Samsung trying to stop its massive fall in sales and refocus on the Android market.
The Samsung Alpha seems to be more of a mid range Nexus 4/5 competitor. An it's a fact Samsung smartphone sales have crashed worldwide whilst Apple/LG/ and the chineese makers are seeing record increases in sales.”
“About the Samsung galaxy alpha lol.....
I think it's a sign that Samsung have realised they cannot compete with iPhones. I think this is Samsung trying to stop its massive fall in sales and refocus on the Android market.
The Samsung Alpha seems to be more of a mid range Nexus 4/5 competitor. An it's a fact Samsung smartphone sales have crashed worldwide whilst Apple/LG/ and the chineese makers are seeing record increases in sales.”
It's a nice looking phone and will presumably sell in reasonable numbers, to certain markets. It was probably a good pick to launch the phone in Russia, which I'd say is one such market that will lap the phone up.
It also gives a good hint of future devices and their design/build, which is good because I could live with the 720p display, but probably not the lack of microSD and definitely not the pathetic battery. What the hell was Samsung thinking here?
That Apple has a smaller battery? So what? Much as I love Android, it has many ways to kill your battery and with such a powerful SoC it's even more madness to potentially offer a good standby time, as long as the phone manages deep sleep consistently, but when used for just about anything is going to be a massive disappointment.
People might be used to terrible battery life depending on what they had before, or have now, but they don't need to be anymore. Get a Z2 or G3 and you can see a huge difference - all day battery life with plenty of usage and screen on times of 4-5 hours and above.
I think it's safe to say that the reviews will all single out battery life as the deal breaker on this, and if they don't then Samsung has either changed physics or the reviewer(s) didn't really test it properly.



