We compare the Samsung Galaxy Alpha against the HTC One M8 to see which device is the better purchase.
In terms of design and display, the Fuse Joplin stated that the HTC One M8 has a uni-body design, a metallic construction with two fine strips on the back at white or black, along with colors such as Gunmetal Gray, Glacial Silver or Amber Gold surface to hide the radio antennas. The front panel you will find two grilled speakers that offer an excellent sound experience, and its screen is a 5 inch LCD3 screen.
Its display can render a resolution of1080 x 1920 pixels at 441 ppi, and its protected by the Corning Gorilla 3. It weighs around 160 grams, and its dimensions are 146.4 x 70.6 x 9.4 mm.
The Samsung Galaxy Alpha is equipped with a metallic frame instead of a silver plastic frame, and has smaller dots on its back. The Samsung Galaxy Alpha is equipped with a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED screen that can render a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels at 312 ppi pixel density. Its protected by a Corning Gorilla Glass 4, weighs around 115 grams, and its dimensions are 132.4 x 65.5 x 6.7 mm.
The Samsung Galaxy Alpha's hardware consist of two variants: Quad-core 1.8 GHz Cortex-A15, and Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A7. They are powered by a Exynos 5 Octa 5430 chipset, a Mali-T628 MP6 chipset, and a RAM capacity of 2GB. Its internal memory is at 32GB, and its operating system is the Android OS, v4.4.4 (KitKat), and will have the v5.0 (Lollipop) upgrade soon.
Meanwhile, the HTC One M8 has also two sets of quad-core processors clocked at 2.3 GHz ins the USA, and a 2.5 GHz in Asia. They are powered by a Qualcomm MSM8974AB Snapdragon 801 chipset, and Adreno 330 GPU. It also has a 2GB RAM, with internal memories of 16 and 32GB that can expand up 128GB. It runs on the Android OS, v4.4.2 (KitKat), which also have the v5.0 (Lollipop) upgrade.
GSMArena reports that the HTC device is equipped with a 4MP primary camera, being paired with a powerful 5MP secondary camera. Its battery is at 2600 mAh capacity that last around 20 hours.
Meanwhile, the Samsung handset has an impressive primary camera of 12MP, and lower 1.2MP secondary camera. Its Li-Ion 1860 mAh battery can only last 11 hours in 3G.
The HTC One M8 32GB is worth $722 in Amazon.com, while the Samsung Galaxy Alpha is at $475.
