Exactly. Lackluster? I think you need better vocabulary my friend! I am getting this phone Monday not many good phones that are 4.7 now days
I hope you'll like it. I'm amazed at the negative comments about this phone -- you'd think people would have better things to do with their time. Yes, it has a smaller screen than the five-plus-inch other Samsung phones, yes, it has "only" 720p resolution, and yes, it doesn't include a MicroSD slot. Everyone should know all about that before heading off to the store to have a look at one.
Beyond that, I just have to shake my head in disbelief with what some folks are saying. I was at a mall this afternoon, so I popped into their AT&T store, and did a bit of a comparison between the Galaxy Alpha and the S5 that was right next to it. I just can't see the whining and hand-wringing over the resolution at all. I did notice that "brightness" tended to make a difference in whether the text on one phone looked sharper than that on another, so, after equalizing the brightness on both phones, it was sure VERY CLEAR to me: I sure thought that the Alpha had sharper, cleaner text than the S5 did. I can't even begin to comprehend what some of these people are talking about, when they say otherwise! I went into the "Settings" app, changed them so that they were both in "list" mode, so I could look at the same words against the same black background, and, again, I thought that the Alpha's text was easily cleaner than the S5's text.
In the end, with the Super AMOLED 720p screen, the Alpha has a screen that doesn't require nearly as much power (and thus eat battery life) like the big phones, so it can be as small and light as it is. It's not a multimedia monster, but you can go for one of the bigger phones if that's what you want. But it's very refreshing to finally have a smaller and lighter phone from Samsung, and one that performs very well at that.
Good luck with yours when you get it!