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Samsung Galaxy Alpha Display Review-Each phones prioritize stream-lined size over monitor size and their parent companies settled on a 4. 5-4. 7" diagonal, 720p resolution giving them virtually equal pixel denseness. The Samsung Galaxy Alpha has the raw screen size advantage also it doesn't have to reserve an area for on-screen buttons such as HTC. That claimed, we've seen several excellent screens from HTC and the One mini 3 is another success.

While pixel density is about the same, sharpness is slightly harder. The Super LCD2 includes a standard RGB matrix even though the Samsung Super AMOLED screen includes a diamond pattern PenTile set up. Differences are slight but people who have good eyesight could notice a crosshatch pattern up close. Nothing to stress about for normal day-to-day usage though.

More important are stuff like brightness and contrast and in terms of the first of these is concerned are virtually matched - 450nits to the Galaxy Alpha and 500nits to the One mini 3. The HTC even includes a solid answer to Super AMOLED's theoretically infinite contrast as well as black levels stay relatively low.

Sunlight legibility goes in support of the Samsung within large part thanks to the low reflectivity of the Super AMOLED construction. The HTC One mini 2 screen is fairly average in this specific respect.

Viewing perspectives for both projection screens are excellent, within the HTC thanks to its IPS technological, on the Samsung thanks to AMOLED's inherent qualities.

Now we arrive at the can of worms which is color rendering. Some people just don't like the oversaturated shades typical of AMOLED screens and on their behalf Samsung has included either four screen modes that you should definitely get a selection between punchiness as well as perfectly accurate colors - together with steps in-between. The HTC One mini doesn't have color options however the default is good with beautiful (and not really oversaturated) colors.

Success: Samsung Galaxy Alpha. The screen offers more real estate property and handles sunlight superior, plus it offers you the choice concerning oversaturated punchiness as well as accurate colors.

Both the Samsung Galaxy Alpha and the HTC One (M8) are LTE-enabled phones however the Galaxy can depend on twice as rapidly at downloading data. LTE Cat. 6 promises approximately 300Mbps downlink data transfer rates, up from 150Mbps regarding Cat. 4.

That's to the Snapdragon 801-based Galaxy Alpha, the one with Exynos is at Cat. 4 150Mbps similar to the One mini 3. That matters only when your carrier can handle such speeds, naturally, most are however at 100Mbps. Both types of LTE upload with 50Mbps. LTE aside, both phones utilize nano-SIM cards and still have quad-band 2G. The Samsung even offers quad-band 3G, even though the One mini 3 offers tri- or quad-band 3G according to region. Outside of LTE protection both phones will do up to 42Mbps when using HSPA+ network.

In your community, the Galaxy Alpha wins out having 802. 11ac, even though the HTC only handles the previous standards - a/b/g/n. Each support dual-band Wi-Fi, DLNA as well as Wi-Fi hotspots. Wireless connectivity is about par with v4. 0 assist and both include NFC built-in. Surprisingly Samsung failed to include MHL support to its Alpha flagship, even though the HTC One minuscule 2 has the item. MHL allows the phone to mirror its screen on a TV via an HDMI adapter, so Galaxy Alpha owners can have just wireless monitor mirroring to count on.

The Galaxy Alpha wins one back with ANT+ connection - sport devices (an important a part of Samsung's strategy) do the job either via Wireless 4. 0 or ANT+, both low-power wi-fi standards.

Positioning is handled from the industry standard combination of A-GPS as well as GLONASS, but Samsung additionally supports the Chinese language Beidou system. That particular is yet to obtain worldwide coverage. Neither phone has an IR blaster despite the fact that their bigger counterparts carry out.