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hey what is up guys I'm Kip EHD here and today we're taking a look at the Samsung Galaxy alpha now when I first saw the commercial for this phone I was first released by Samsung showing off the metal build and how it can stand up on its own on its side and all these other special things my first reaction and I even left a comment on the video was meh I mean it looks like very similar to other Samsung phones and its might even look like a mini Galaxy Note 4 or a slightly improved galaxy s5 but I said meth because it's so similar to a lot of other Samsung phones but now it's officially coming to the United States which means we're gonna have to take a closer look at this because this is going to be showing up in stores right next to the Galaxy Note 4 and the galaxy s5 so let's take a closer look at what makes the Samsung Galaxy alpha different which means this is going to be a shorter video because the list of things that makes the Alpha different from phones like the galaxy s5 and note 4 it's pretty small but the big focus here is obviously the material choice and the feel in the hand that's the whole point of this phone the whole reason it exists and the main way they've done that is by adding a metal band all the way around the frame of the phone where they use plastic before so now whenever you hold the phone you're holding metal and that makes a really big difference in the way it feels and that band is chamfered everywhere it's chamfered all the way around the power button is chamfered the volume buttons are separated and chamfered and they're very clicky the build of this guy is really really improved now and actually reminds me of the iPhone 5s in a lot of ways everything is chamfered but the thing is it feels very premium from the front and from the sides but you flip it over to the back and suddenly it's the same old Samsung again it's plasticky soft touch removable back just like the older phones and don't get me wrong removable is great you get access to the removable battery there's no additional storage but you know I'm not saying it doesn't feel sturdy when it's attached to the back of the phone but the material itself that you're constantly touching on the back does not feel nearly as premium as the metal that surrounds it it kind of seems confused doesn't like does it really want to go all the way to being a premium feel or only go part of the way and it's actually kind of the same story with the specs of this guy actually this was the first Samsung Galaxy alpha into the United States completely thanks to 28 check out my Instagram date for proof and it had some pretty beastly specs so this is a Korean model it has LTE a it's an octa-core processor it has 2 gigs of RAM all your usual sensors gyroscope etc but then it drops to a 12 megapixel camera on the back instead of that new-and-improved 16 megapixel 1 in its brothers and a 720p pentile display that's not really as good as other 4.7 inch display phones this display is you know it's OLED and yes it's very vibrant and saturated and it does get pretty bright so it's kind of pleasing but when you look up close it definitely breaks down it's not a high-end panel and again leaves you with this incomplete feeling about whether it's supposed to feel fully premium or just partially premium but that's not going to stop a lot of people this device is still great still feels great still looks great performance is also really smooth when you combine of course that high-end chipset high-end graphics 2 gigs of ram and a 720p display and overall the software experience is very similar to the galaxy s5 you've probably already seen it has a very similar feature set as well I really like the size of the phone very good fit in the hand with a 4.7 inch display since it's a bit smaller than the iPhone 6 thanks to its thinner bezels so it's clearly not a full-on flagship phone it has an 1860 milliamp hour battery and a battery life similar to the Moto X and it's not a flagship with the slightly bumped down 12 megapixel camera even though megapixels don't mean everything it's a older sensor but yet it has all these other nice specs and this really really big emphasis on the quality of the build this premium feel in the hand and you know it'll compete with top of the line phones it's almost like a hybrid between the high-end super premium stuff and the Samsung feel of last year almost like a bridge between these two and honestly this phone gets me more excited about the Galaxy Note 4 than it does about itself so at the end of the day the Alpha is definitely an improved phone no doubt it's significantly better feeling in the hand I would say then the galaxy s5 and I think it's probably one of my favorite phones just to hold in general something about that 4.7 inch screen size also appeals to me a lot but at the end of the day my reaction is still met because like I said it's so similar to these other phones and I happen to like big phones so I'm going to get my hands the Galaxy Note 4 very soon anyway and probably do a video on that ranting a little more about how I love the metal so much but either way that's my my review of the Samsung Galaxy alpha hope you enjoyed it thank you for watching I'll talk to you guys in the next one bass