Samsung launched its slimmest Android smartphone with a focus on form, and an eye on Apple's 4.7-inch iPhone 6, the Galaxy Alpha, in the Indian market. It's the first Samsung smartphone to feature its in-house Exynos SoC, and 4G LTE support, and a metal frame edging it.

Samsung launched all three color options - Charcoal Black, Dazzling White, and Frosted Gold, in India. It is priced at 39,990 INR. It's characterized by a real-metal frame lining its edge. The phone is designed to be slim, with a metallic overarching scheme, and a back-panel design that borrows from the Galaxy S5, but with more subtle dots. The phone is just 6.5 mm slim. In comparison, the company's current flagship, the Galaxy S5, is 8.1 mm. The phone weighs just 115 g.

Galaxy Alpha is a 4.7-inch smartphone, designed to compete with the iPhone 6, which comes with the same screens size. The Alpha's screen is a Super AMOLED, with HD (1280 x 720 pixels) resolution. In the imaging department, you get a 12.1-megapixel BSI CMOS primary, with a 2.1-megapixel front cam. The camera can record Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) video. A fingerprint scanner is added to the mix.

Under the hood is a Samsung Exynos chipset, featuring an eight-core ARM big.LITTLE config of four Cortex-A15 cores clocked at 1.80 GHz, with four Cortex-A7 ones, running at 1.30 GHz. This chip is mated with 2 GB of RAM, and a fixed 32 GB of internal storage. An 1,860 mAh battery keeps it ticking.

The Galaxy Alpha runs Android 4.4.4 "KitKat," featuring Samsung TouchWiz UI, and Samsung Knox secure environment.