Alcatel OneTouch Idol 2

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Design

Idol 2 carries many similarities Galaxy Note form (especially the front). Thin and light are two outstanding factors when holding the camera. According to the manufacturer’s specifications, Idol 2 136.5 x 70 sized x 7.3 mm and weighs 128g. When measuring the reality is there is a little difference, 7,53mm thick and weighs 134g machine. However, it remains one of the smartphone with 5 inch thin screen today.

The body smooth light coating emulsion paint which according to the manufacturer’s magnetic coating to help color fastness and fancy. A new look at a lot of people think the machine is made of metal, but the fact it is made of plastic, surrounded only machine frame is made of metal makes the machine looks sturdy.

At the back, the cover slightly toward the back light hug assisting grip palms hug more. This cover is not removable panels to replace batteries and no external memory card slot. All one needs to save data will be based on 16GB internal memory, to about 12GB to install applications and store data, nor the lack of a normal user. Rear camera of OneTouch Idol 2 was bulging a bit over the surface. The camera has a resolution of 8MP, just below the flash and.

OneTouch Idol 2 generally bore a very good-looking design with thin edges, rounded corners. The details are neat finishing, assembly and certainly together snugly.

The front has a 5-inch screen, 2MP front camera resolution, besides the proximity sensor and light sensor. Three common touch buttons are located on the outside of the screen should not affect the use of the area. Three buttons are backlit light up when in use. Hard buttons to adjust the volume, turn off the machine must be placed on the side. These buttons are not too high ledges and easy to press.

Screen

Alcatel OneTouch Idol 2 is equipped with a 5-inch screen size with a resolution qHD (960 x 540 pixels and a pixel density of 220 ppi), slightly lower than the current smartphone but still enough to show the content at quite comfortably with eyes like the Philips Xenium W6610 we had all experienced. With this resolution, if zooming on images or web pages they saw the break of focus.

When using facts and look to the naked eye, the screen with maximum brightness display good but a little paler than reality. However, the machine also allows users to customize the color temperature and saturation according to your preferences. Because it uses IPS panel LCD with a wide viewing angle so machines, color and contrast unchanged at different angles. Glass screen protector easy to pick up fingerprints but luck is not much shade when used in outdoor or indoor light more strongly.

Software and Features

Idol 2 uses Android OS 4.2 Jelly Bean, a bit old when multiple machines in the same price range are using version 4.4 Kitkat. In Idol 2, visible user interface is unchanged from the original operating system from Google with designed icons square, flat and colorful. Machine with 5 home screens and can not change the number.

In addition to the applications and services of Google’s familiar, manufacturers also offer some proprietary software like One Touch Backup, One Touch center, Smart Live, Zapp and TouchPal keyboard. In particular, Smart Live and Zapp is the application store similar to Google’s Play Store. TouchPal Keyboard although not yet “complete” basic but functional too makes us feel good. The keys are designed longer, support language switching, mode and guess from the input form by typing or moving fingers swipe, easy to use interface, intuitive.

Another notable feature is the battery saving mode. Machine has two modes, one is the user-mode installation on demand, can allow or off features such as WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, synchronous data connection. The second mode is the maximum saving mode pre-configured by the machine. When operating in this mode, the machine can only use five basic functions include Phone, Contacts, Messaging, Calendar and Alarm. When enable maximum battery saving, the machine automatically reduces the brightness.

camera

Idol 2 is equipped with two cameras, 8MP rear and 2MP gate open f / 2.8 front. Camera rear gate open f / 2.4 with the ability to autofocus and capture rapidly. The camera app has a simple interface and supports the usual features such as touch focus, face detection, geo tagging, HDR, continuous shot, panorama panorama, timer and modes taken under the environment (night, motion) and customize the parameters of ISO, exposure and image size.

Quality, photo of Idol 2 does not impress much, even when shooting in daylight conditions, the normal light image is still slightly turbid water and bright color of detail is quite good though. When shooting in low light, slow autofocus and image machine mosquito. About filming, filming apparatus capable of a maximum resolution of Full HD at 30 frames / sec. This phone also supports an electronic anti-shake, but the motion picture phenomenon still shocked if hand shake while shooting or record while sitting on a car like the clip below.

Overall, the quality of the capture and recording at normal levels, barely enough for their needs on the network share if taken in sufficient light environment but quite helpless if shooting in low light.

Operating performance

Alcatel One Touch Idol 2 system using quad-core MediaTek processor speed 1.3 GHz ARM Mali 400MP graphics, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal memory (more than 10GB of space) and the machine does not support external memory card. Machines meet basic tasks like web surfing, watching movies and light gaming.

For heavy games like Asphalt 8, FIFA 14, Dead Trigger 2 computer or sometimes shocked at the first sight upon entering the game, but after playing for a while when the machine is running smoothly, not jerky slow offensive. However, the machine heats up pretty fast when playing games or using the camera a long time, like a Skyphone Like Super Slim, probably due to the slim.

Check processing performance on common software, Alcatel One Touch Idol 2 scores quite well. Specifically, the plant reached 17 413 points and 5881 points AnTuTu, marginally better as the HTC One X machines, LG L70 Dual and only lost the Asus Zenfone 5.

Battery

Alcatel One Touch Idol 2 is equipped with 2000 mAh capacity battery immediately. Real test for basic tasks is listening to calls, watch movies and play games, OneTouch Idol 2 achieved good results compared to the same price range products. With such results, the machine can fully meet all day with people who have the need to use a high intensity, about 3-4 hours on the screen.

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ALCATEL ONETOUCH IDOL™ 2 S SMARTPHONE (Unlocked): Buy it now

Alcatel
Android 4.2 Jelly Bean
CPU: 1.3 GHz quad-core MT6582
Display: 5-inch IPS
Resolution: 540 x 960 pixel qHD, 220 PPI
Main camera: 8 MP
Camera: 2 MP
Storage: 16GB, there is no memory card slot
RAM: 1 GB
Connectivity: microUSB, WiFi, GPS, NFC
Video format: HR, FR, EFR, AMR NB, AMR WB
Music formats: AAC, AAC +, eAAC, MP3, Midi, AMR WB, WAV
Battery: 2000mAh
Dimensions: 136.5 x 70 x 7.8 mm
Weight: 134g