As suspected, Samsung plans to spread the aluminum love around at last over the coming months, with the Galaxy Alpha to be followed by a mid-range Galaxy A5 and low-end A3.
You asked for metal for years, and now Samsung is bending over backwards to oblige. And no, they’re not keeping plastic around as an inexpensive entry-level alternative. The Galaxy will be all about minerals before long, as the Alpha and Note 4 were only the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Even better, future iterations in the A Series are said to ditch polycarbonate altogether, adorning the sides with robust aluminum, as well as coating the rear in the premium build material. That’s at least what we expect of the looming A5, aka SM-A500, whereas the A3, aka SM-A300 or SM-A3000, is for now a slightly bigger puzzle.
No doubt targeting the so-called “emerging markets” first and foremost, the A3 looks a tad humble hardware-wise to afford to accommodate a full-metal chassis. I mean, it’s not like Samsung can charge $400 or so for a device with a 4.8-inch 960 x 540 pix res display, 1 GB RAM and 5 MP rear-facing camera.
Even though, as far as raw speed is concerned, the Galaxy A3 may well trump the A5. Sounds hard to believe, yet a fairly credible preliminary benchmark lists in black and white the on-board processor as a 1.2 GHz quad-core unit paired with an Adreno 306 GPU.
The 306 can only be found lending a speedy hand to the Snapdragon 410, so unlike the standard, almost tedious 32-bit Galaxy A5, the A3 supports 64-bit processing. Theoretically, that is, because the pre-loaded Android 4.4 KitKat doesn’t help its cause one bit.
Oh, well, maybe if we wait long enough, the low to mid-ender shall debut running the 64-bit-ready Android L OS. With a metal build, even partial, and a reasonable price point, it’d be positively dreamy, don’t you think?
Sources: Phone Arena , GFX Bench , Samsung Mobile
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You asked for metal for years, and now Samsung is bending over backwards to oblige. And no, they’re not keeping plastic around as an inexpensive entry-level alternative. The Galaxy will be all about minerals before long, as the Alpha and Note 4 were only the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Even better, future iterations in the A Series are said to ditch polycarbonate altogether, adorning the sides with robust aluminum, as well as coating the rear in the premium build material. That’s at least what we expect of the looming A5, aka SM-A500, whereas the A3, aka SM-A300 or SM-A3000, is for now a slightly bigger puzzle.
No doubt targeting the so-called “emerging markets” first and foremost, the A3 looks a tad humble hardware-wise to afford to accommodate a full-metal chassis. I mean, it’s not like Samsung can charge $400 or so for a device with a 4.8-inch 960 x 540 pix res display, 1 GB RAM and 5 MP rear-facing camera.
Even though, as far as raw speed is concerned, the Galaxy A3 may well trump the A5. Sounds hard to believe, yet a fairly credible preliminary benchmark lists in black and white the on-board processor as a 1.2 GHz quad-core unit paired with an Adreno 306 GPU.
The 306 can only be found lending a speedy hand to the Snapdragon 410, so unlike the standard, almost tedious 32-bit Galaxy A5, the A3 supports 64-bit processing. Theoretically, that is, because the pre-loaded Android 4.4 KitKat doesn’t help its cause one bit.
Oh, well, maybe if we wait long enough, the low to mid-ender shall debut running the 64-bit-ready Android L OS. With a metal build, even partial, and a reasonable price point, it’d be positively dreamy, don’t you think?
Sources: Phone Arena , GFX Bench , Samsung Mobile
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