Alcatel OneTouch Hero 2 Review

Alcatel OneTouch Hero 2 is an impressive Android device, packing a very powerful Octa-Core CPU clocking at 2 gigahertz, a 6-inches display, and two cameras, a 13.1 mega-pixels back side camera and a 5 mega-pixels front camera. But it's time to get into some more detail.

This phone is powered by a very powerful Octa-Core processing unit speeding at 2 gigahertz, included in the MediaTek MT6592 system chip and a huge 2 GB RAM. To collaborate with graphic calculations, it also uses a 700 MHz ARM Mali-450 MP4 GPU. This cellphone comes with a 16 GB interesting internal memory and an SD extension slot, enough to store a couple hundred apps without worrying about space.

Regarding its aspect, this phone is majorly created with Aluminium, which gives it a premium look and improved resistance. This cellphone is just 6.32" long and 3.21" wide, but it still manages to hold a 6" screen. Being just 0.31 inches thick,this cellphone is incredibly thin and stilized. Alcatel made a really good design job making this phone weight only 6.17 oz. This cellphone is only for sale in gray color.

This device is equipped with a high-tech 6" screen with a 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) resolution, which makes everything look brightful and colorful. Its screen uses IPS LCD capacitive technology, and is multi-touch enabled.

This phone counts with wifi capability (and it can share it with other devices as a mobile hotspot), 4G (LTE) high speed connection and also HSPA+ data connection, a lower speed 4G network and the fastest 3G data connection, using HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This cellphone uses a SIM card to use GSM services.

The Alcatel OneTouch Hero 2 features two cameras, a 13.1 mega-pixels back side camera and a 5 MP front facing camera. This phone also captures 1920x1080 Full HD videos at 30 fps. To complete the camera, it also has multiple great characteristics like auto-focus, flash, fast burst mode, digital image stabilization, optical image stabilization, face detection shooting, HDR mode, smile detection shooting and geo tagging.

This cellphone also comes with some cool features like Bluetooth (for communication with other bluetooth cellphones and accessories) and GPS Geolocation, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

This cellphone packs a high capacity 3100 mAh Li-Ion battery that can keep it running for several hours without charging it. Alcatel claims this phone has a 15.5 hs talk time and a 500 hs stand by time.

This cellphone might be a little overpriced considering it is offerred for 249 dollars, and many similar devices are being sold for less than that. No matter if you will use it as a gamer phone, need a phone to majorly use social networks and internet browsing, want this phone for work or love photography, this phone is a great choice for you.