Alcatel OneTouch POP Astro Review

Alcatel OneTouch POP Astro is a solid cellphone, provisioned with a 4.5 inches touch-screen, a fast 1.5 gigahertz processing unit, a 5 MP back side camera and a 0.3 mega-pixels front camera.

Alcatel decided to sell this phone with a powerful processing unit speeding at 1500 megahertz, included in a MediaTek MT6732 system chip and 1 GB RAM. The Alcatel OneTouch POP Astro counts with areasonable 4 GB internal storage memory, which is adequate for most users having that it also has a slot for SD memory cards to store songs, pictures and videos and even some applications that allow external memory installation.

This device is just 0.39 inches thick, taking it to the thinnest cellphone's category. This phone is quite a compact device, taking into account that it presents a 4.5 inches display and it's only 5.23" long. It appears that Alcatel decided not to care much about the weight in this 5.11 oz cellphone. This cellphone is just available in color white.

The Alcatel OneTouch POP Astro features two cameras, a 5 mega-pixels back-facing camera and a 0.3 megapixels front-facing camera. It can also film videos in Full HD 1920x1080 at 30 frames per second. The camera also features flash and geo tagging.

This phone includes a interesting 960 x 540 4.5-inches display, which makes it hard to see the pixels composing the display. This display uses TFT capacitive technology, and is multi-touch enabled.

This cellphone features a 2000 mAh medium sized Li - Ion removable battery, which is quite low for a device like this. Alcatel informs a stand by time of 250 hours and a talk time of 8.5 hours for this phone.

The Alcatel OneTouch POP Astro counts with wi-fi connection (which it can provide to other devices around, as a mobile hotspot), LTE 4G high speed connectivity and 3G fast connection type, supported by HSPA, HSUPA and EDGE technologies. The Alcatel OneTouch POP Astro uses a Micro SIM card for GSM connection.

This phone also features a few interesting features like Bluetooth, GPS Localization and FM Radio, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

This phone is very overpriced considering it is priced 249 dollars, and many similar devices are offerred way cheaper than that. No matter if you will use it as a gamer phone or will use it as a social phone, you will definitely be very happy with it.