If people have one complaint about Samsung’s phones, it’s that they’re too “plasticky” to be considered as real premium gadgets. And then they go ahead and buy them anyways. Well, Samsung may be saying “Enough of the plastic complaint already!” – if the recent launch of the Galaxy Alpha (with the metal side binding) was to be any indication. The next phone in the Alpha series is rumored to be an all-metal affair, with the name code SM-A500.
The SM-A500 – according to the sources that the fellows at SamMobile are talking to – will have an all metal finish, including the back and doing away with the faux leather that Samsung seems to be using in all its premium phones to date. The phone will also go solid on the back, meaning that the rumored 2,330mAh battery will not be removable.
Other than that, all the other specs point to mid-tier – a quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor, 8MP/5MP camera combo, 16GB of internal storage and a 5-inch 1280×720 Super AMOLED display. Unlike the Galaxy Alpha, though, this phone may have a microSD slot – actually a hybrid one that also incorporates that nano-SIM slot.
Typical of Samsung to not want to disturb its current design language and just create a new line of products to test out the mid-tier/premium finish combo. Because, hey, the more phone models out there, the better for us all, eh? NOT. We certainly wouldn’t fault them for this new Alpha series of phones, but they sure found a safe – if not a more expensive way – to do their market study.
VIA: Sam Mobile
