Samsung Galaxy A3 Phone review

The Samsung Galaxy A3. Just like the Alpha smartphone, the A3 offers an aluminum frame, which highlights a lightweight design, built around a Super AMOLED display. And let me tell you, this phone does look as nice as it sounds.
Samsung has been known for churning all-plastic smartphones across its entire portfolio. Pressured to evolve its product design, the company came up with the Galaxy Alpha, a super slim smartphone with an angular metal frame. But Samsung surely likes to spread its design concepts across the entire portfolio and thus the Galaxy A3 and the Galaxy A5 were born.

The plastic panels didn't stop millions of users worldwide to choose Samsung's phones over the competitors. It's debatable whether that's due to Samsung's almost exclusive Super AMOLED screens, their R&D hardware advancements or their aggressive approach towards adding new features to Android OS. It's a fact nonetheless. And as you can imagine, you can't go wrong with adding metal to their already winning recipe mix.
 Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5 will launch in select markets including China in November. The device will be available in usual black and white, gold and silver metallic, and the same blossom pink and light blue as the Note 4.The pricing for the device is not yet available .

Samsung Galaxy A3 at a glance:
General: GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSPA/LTE connectivity;
Dimensions: 130.1 x 65.5 x 6.9 mm, 110 g;
Display: 4.5" qHD Super AMOLED touchscreen, 245ppi pixel density;
Chipset: Snapdragon 410 chipset, quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53, Adreno 306 GPU, 1.5GB RAM
OS: Android 4.4.4 KitKat with TouchWiz;
Memory: 16GB storage, microSD card slot (up to 64GB);
Camera: 8MP auto-focus camera, LED flash;
Video camera: 1080p video recording;
Front camera: 5MP front-facing camera;
Connectivity: Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, ANT+, NFC, microUSB 2.0 port, GPS/GLONASS receiver, 3.5mm audio jack, digital compass, ambient light sensor, secondary mic for ambient noise cancellation;
Battery: 1,900mAh Li-Ion non-removable battery;

On a positive note, it has a 64-bit processor and a microSD expansion slot, two things the original Galaxy Alpha is short on. Indeed, Android and its app ecosystem is yet to make proper use of 64-bit processors, but we're sure it's only a matter of time. And when the time comes, the Galaxy A3 will be able to benefit from any 64-bit optimizations that come up.