Samsung Galaxy Alpha vs Apple iPhone 5s – specs comparison and future expectations

The iPhone's core strength has always been its premium design paired with good performance. Android phones, on the other hand, are striving to outperform it by becoming bigger, stronger, and faster, but not leaner. For a long time, the iPhone lacked a mainstream opponent to challenge it in its own elusive category of “compact premium smartphone”.

Enter Samsung Galaxy Alpha. Although its 4.7-inch display makes for a bigger phone, the Galaxy Alpha is more compact than any of today's Android flagships, and is one of the few 4.7-inch smartphones that are built to impress. Does the Galaxy Alpha finally have what it takes to challenge the iPhone? Read on, and you will see.

Design

The iPhone 5s is the more compact and metallic of the two, but Samsung has made the slimmest Galaxy phone ever.