Alcatel OneTouch Pop 2 (4) Review

Alcatel OneTouch Pop 2 (4) is a solid device released in January 2015, packed with a 4 inches screen, an extremely powerful Quad-Core processing unit running at 1.2 gigahertz, and 2 cameras, an 8 mega-pixels back camera and a 1.3 MP front camera.

Alcatel equipped this cellphone with an extremely powerful 1200 MHz Quad-Core 64 bit processing unit, bundled in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 8916 system chip with only 1 GB of RAM which is a bit low for a cellphone this powerful. Graphic intensive applications often uses lots of CPU time, so the Alcatel OneTouch Pop 2 (4) also has a 450 MHz Adreno 306 graphics processing unit to take some work out of the processor. This phone counts with a 4 GB internal storage, a passable quantity that should be adequate for the average user knowing that this cellphone also has an SD memory card expansion slot .

This time, it seems like Alcatel forgot about optimizing the weight in this 4.41 ounces device. This cellphone is offerred in multiple color variations: black, gray, yellow, blue, red and white.

This phone includes a very good 4" display with a 854 x 480 resolution, making everything look very nice. Its display uses TFT capacitive technology, and has multi-touch detection.

This phone features WiFi connectivity (and it can be shared with other devices as a mobile hotspot), 4G LTE high performance internet connection and also HSPA+ connectivity, which is a lower speed 4G network and 3G fast connectivity, over HSDPA, HSUPA and EDGE technologies. This phone has dual SIM cards so it's able to use two different carriers or phone lines.

The Alcatel OneTouch Pop 2 (4) features two cameras, an 8 MP back camera and a 1.3 MP front side camera. It is also able to film videos up to 1280x720 (HD) at 30 fps. The camera also includes a few useful features: fast burst mode, flash, smile detection shooting, HDR mode and geo tagging.

This phone counts with a good 2000 mAh battery that provides this device a poor battery lifecompared to other cellphones. Alcatel reports a talk time of 6 hs and a stand by time of 250 hours for this cellphone.

This cellphone also includes a few cool features such as Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS Localization, and a couple sensors likeLight Sensor, Proximity Sensor and Accelerometer.

This cellphone is priced around $ 249, not a really offer for comparing with similar devices. No matter if you are looking for a device to mainly use social networks and internet browsing or will use this device to play lots of games, this cellphone is the right one .