After years of Apple
smartphones with comparatively small displays, the company - by all
looks - is to aim at Samsung’s bread and butter: large-screen
smartphones. And if Apple can do this, Samsung seems to have thought
that it should strike back and the unthinkable happened: the
Samsung Galaxy Alpha.
The
Galaxy Alpha caused a stir in the smartphone world as all hell broke
loose and the world’s largest phone maker decided to use a metal frame
rather than the usual Samsung plastic. The wink in Apple’s direction
becomes more obvious when you see that the Alpha has a nano SIM card,
and no memory expansion slot.
We can’t say that the Galaxy Alpha
surprised us - there were too many leaks and rumors about a fashionable,
premium Samsung gadget. However, amidst all the oohs and aahs
surrounding the Alpha, many (us included) claimed the Galaxy Alpha is
Samsung’s first metal phone.
Technically, though, it’s not.
Remember the bada (as in bada, the operating system) series of
smartphones? Don’t worry if you don’t - bada smartphones were only
available in select markets (and most popular in Asia) a couple of years
ago, but matter-of-factly, the Samsung Wave flagships were made of
beautiful and sturdy metal. And lo and behold, they also featured a
unique Samsung design!
And for those of you who’d say that bada
does not count, how about we told you that there is metal used even in
Samsung’s Android smartphones! Surprised? That’s because there is in
fact very little of it in the Samsung Galaxy Active - only the screws
were made of metal (we’re not kidding). Does this count? We don’t know,
but we felt obliged to mention it. So now that you know all about the
history of Samsung metal-made smartphones, you can go on a holy crusade
against less educated and more obsessed with brands people. But you
shouldn’t really do it and you wouldn’t. Right?
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The bada-running and metal-made Samsung Wave
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