Samsung working on a new smartphone line with metal casing
Samsung is reportedly working on a new line of smartphones with metal casing.
Reports claimed that Samsung Galaxy Alpha will have brothers of its own. This time the South Korean tech giant was spotted working on an A-Series smartphone line with lower specs and features.
Currently, Samsung Galaxy Alpha is the closest thing to having a smartphone with aluminum casing like the iPhone handsets. However, the upcoming SM-A5000, also dubbed as A500, will be part of the mid-range and budget smartphones.
The smartphone was spotted at the GFXBenchmark boasting 64-bit processing power. The handset will sport a 4.8-inch screen display and will pack a low-cost quad-core 1.2 GHz Snapdragon 410 SoC paired with 2GB of RAM. The processor will be supported by Adreno 306. It comes with an 8GB internal storage with the mandatory microSD slot for additional external storage. The smartphone will run with the latest Android 4.4.4 Kitkat OS.
Meanwhile, Samsung Galaxy Alpha, from which the smartphone line took inspiration, was recently released and included specs and features that can be qualified to be a flagship smartphone. The newly announced handset from Samsung packs a metal casing different from the plastic body packed in previous Samsung smartphones. The Galaxy Alpha handset also comes with a fingerprint scanner, ultra power saving mode, S Health, and connectivity support for Galaxy Gear.
Samsung is set to unveil the A300 and A700, which will sandwich the A500. This suggested that the specs and features of the other two will not be far from the A500. Moreover, the tech giant will also release the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 in its Unpacked event scheduled today.
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is rumored to pack a quadHD screen display with a 2,560 x 1,440 pixel resolution, a 64-bit processor, an Android 4.4.3 Kitkat operating system, a 3GB RAM, and a 3 megapixel front-facing camera. The phablet is purported to come in two variants: the international variant will come with an Exynos chipset and the unit released in the U.S. will pack the Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor.
