Alcatel OneTouch Pop 2 (4.5) Review

Alcatel OneTouch Pop 2 (4.5) is a bit outdated cellphone, which counts with a 4.5 inches screen, an exceptional 64-bit Quad-Core processing unit clocking at 1.2 GHz, and 2 cameras, a 5 mega-pixels back camera and a 0.3 mega-pixels front facing camera.

This phone has a wonderful design, with a thickness of just 0.39". The Alcatel OneTouch Pop 2 (4.5) is quite a compact cellphone, given that it presents a 4.5 inches display and it only has 5.22" long. Alcatel is offering this cellphone in many color options, black, gray, purple, yellow, green, blue, red and white. It appears that Alcatel didn't care about the weight in this 5.19 oz phone.

This phone includes a good looking 4.5 inches display with a 854 x 480 resolution, which makes everything look vivid. This display uses TFT capacitive technology, and can detect multiple fingers at the same time.

Alcatel decided to power the Alcatel OneTouch Pop 2 (4.5) using a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 8916 system chip, including a high speed Quad-Core CPU ticking at 1.2 GHz with only 1 GB of RAM memory which is a little bit low for such a good cellphone. Graphic intensive apps and games generally eats a lot of processing time, so this cellphone uses an extra 450 megahertz Adreno 306 graphic processing unit to help handle those graphic tasks. The Alcatel OneTouch Pop 2 (4.5) has a quite large 8 GB internal storage memory and an SD memory card expansion slot, allowing the user to store hundreds of applications without worrying about space.

This phone is equipped with two cameras, a 5 MP back camera and a 0.3 mega-pixels front side camera. It is also able to shoot Full HD 1920x1080 videos at 30 fps. Additionally, the camera has a large number of valuable characteristics like auto-focus, flash, digital image stabilization, fast burst mode, HDR mode, smile detection shooting and geo tagging.

The Alcatel OneTouch Pop 2 (4.5) has wifi connectivity (and it can share it with other devices around, acting as a mobile hotspot), LTE 4G high speed connectivity and also HSPA+ data connection, that is a slower 4G technology and 3G fast data connection, using HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. The Alcatel OneTouch Pop 2 (4.5) uses a Micro SIM card for GSM connection.

The Alcatel OneTouch Pop 2 (4.5) packs a 2000 mAh medium battery that provides this phone a quite short battery durationcompared to other cellphones. Alcatel afirms this phone has a 400 hs stand by time and a 8 hs talk time.

This device also comes with a couple nice characteristics such as Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS, and a couple sensors likeLight Sensor, Proximity Sensor and Accelerometer.

The Alcatel OneTouch Pop 2 (4.5) is very overvalued considering it is priced $ 249, and some similar devices are sold for much less than that. No matter if you are looking for a phone for gaming or need a phone to mainly use social networks and internet browsing, this phone is probably a very good choice for you.