Alcatel POP 2 5042D, which we will talk about today, is a continuation of the line called one touch. This Chinese device is sold in the territory Russian Federation for only five thousand rubles.
Later we will talk about the parameters of Alcatel POP 2 5042D in more detail, but now we will analyze the fundamental points. We can say the cornerstones on which this device is based. So, for a price of 5 thousand rubles, we get not the newest software shell (“Android” 4.4), not the largest amount of RAM (1 GB) and not the highest quality screen. The device will not please us with battery life either, the battery is designed for only 2,000 milliamps per hour. But with communication capabilities Alcatel POP 2 5042D is fine. Nevertheless, who will look at the communication set if they do not allow the use of the device for a long time? But first things first.
It's safe to say that the screen is the part of the smartphone where one encounters the most noticeable paradox. On the one hand, Alcatel POP 2 5042D is equipped with a TFT-matrix, which today has the worst display quality. It is easily overtaken by IPS, but there is no need to even talk about AMOLED and S-AMOLED.
So, POP 2 5042D has a screen resolution of 480 by 854 pixels with a diagonal of 4.5 inches. Calculations say that the pixel density is 240 dots per inch. If the manufacturer installed a matrix not TFT, but IPS in the screen, this would be a noticeable progress and could greatly change the assessment of the device. Nevertheless, the TFT-matrix, or rather its installation, here is a kind of retribution for the low cost of the device. Actually, there is another justification for using TFT: the low battery capacity. Such a matrix will consume the charge more carefully than the same IPS.
It is pleasantly surprising that the screen does not give off excessively blue hues, as is the case with many budget solutions. In general, with the color reproduction of the POP 2 5042D pleases, it is on good level. There is an almost crystal clear white color here, for which I just want to thank the developers. And this is even at low brightness levels. Yes, of course, there were some mistakes. For example, in small text, you can notice the smearing of thin lines, and when the device is turned into a vertical plane, the color gamut will be distorted. But can the opponents of Alcatel One Touch POP 2 5042D, related to the same price category? Hardly.
More Smartphone Alcatel equipped with a light sensor that allows you to adjust the backlight level of the screen in automatic mode. Considering that not all models for seven thousand rubles have this function (and even for ten thousand rubles, oddly enough), you can be glad for such a set. By the way, the Alcatel smartphone changes the brightness level without any jerks, doing everything gently, smoothly and gradually.
The developers have added a rather interesting solution to the device. Like the Lumiya, the device can be both brought out of sleep mode and “driven” it there with the help of a double tap on the display. When “waking up”, the main screen will immediately open, and the lockscreen will be skipped. The same can be done exactly the opposite.
Alcatel POP 2 5042D, the price of which is about five thousand Russian rubles, is equipped with two cameras. The main one has a resolution of five megapixels. The front is more modest, only two megapixels. The main module is complemented by the function of auto focusing on the subject, there is also an LED flash. However, one should not place a huge bet on it, since it copes with its tasks (due to its low power) very, very mediocrely.
By the way, with front camera problems have been identified. Previously given information about two megapixels was obtained from the developers and official representatives of the company. However, multiple tests carried out using a special software, showed that there are only 0.3 MP. We will not notice any special settings, there are only two of them: activating / deactivating the night mode and creating four photos in a row. The compression algorithm is not bad, it saves space on the phone. It is possible that the company originally planned from 0.3 to 2 megapixels, but for some reason decided not to. For those who are not experienced in selfies, the result will still remain acceptable.
In Alcatel POP 2 5042D, the firmware for which will optimize the work operating system, there is a fairly good main camera. Despite its five megapixels, in good light, it produces really high-quality pictures. As the light level decreases, the quality will also decrease, but this seems quite logical. Auto focus works not only quickly, but also competently, you won’t be able to dig into the process or results.
The work of software and hardware that corrects leads to the creation of good pictures. Even without setting advanced settings, you can take high-quality photos in almost any type of lighting. When shooting faces, the user may enjoy a slight shift in the spectrum towards warm shades. This parameter has almost no effect on other scenarios, so it can be evaluated positively. There is a macro mode. He will not provide perfect results. Nevertheless, lovers of shooting flowers and other objects can safely count on it.
What can you say about photos with text? In principle, it is hardly possible to brag about some transcendental achievements. But the required level is still there. If you take a picture of an A4 page, the text on it will be easy to read even without much scaling. However, readability will fall in proportion to the decrease in the size of the letters. Alcatel POP 2 5042D, the characteristics of which are listed at the beginning of the review, does not allow good shooting at night. Even though it has flash. Its only sensible purpose is to use it as a flashlight.
If you are an active user, then you will definitely have to purchase a case for Alcatel POP 2 5042D, so as not to damage the case and wash the coatings. We have already talked about the operation of the display, so there is no point in repeating it. You can analyze the topic of communications, which will probably be more interesting for those who are going to use the smartphone for its intended purpose. That is, actively communicate in social networks, browse the Internet and call up with loved ones.
So, in a cellular network fourth generation The device works quite well. He immediately "clings" to the coating. This, taking into account the price of the device, is even a little surprising in a pleasant way, of course. The signal indicator shows impressive information. In general, from the third to the fourth generation and back, the device switches very cheerfully. And it really pleases. It is clear that in this case there can be no complaints about the quality of data transmission. Here without problems.
The sensitivity of the Wi-Fi module is at a high level, there are no complaints about it. Pleased with the fast and accurate work of GPS. There is an add-on A-GPS, once again facilitating work with satellite maps terrain. Together with a good “hook” of the smartphone for coverage cellular networks, these parameters provide an excellent opportunity to use the device as a communicator. The radio part is done well, you can’t argue with that.
As for the sound, this part of the subject of our today's review is the very fly in the ointment in a barrel of honey. It becomes a kind of rehabilitation. The multimedia speaker is far from perfect. Hissing, crackling - these are its main shortcomings. There is nothing more to highlight, but this “sweet couple” is enough, as they say, for the eyes. Probably, Alcatel should have gone in this direction with an eye to the ingenious solutions of the Beeline company, where there is no multimedia speaker, and a universal auditory one plays its role.
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Type: smartphone Dimensions: 141x71.5x9.7mm Market Data: Alcatel One Touch Pop 2 (5)Announcement date: September 2014Deliveries to Russia: supplied Sales start date in Russia: March 2015 Recommended price at the start of sales: 7990 rub. General characteristics: Alcatel One Touch Pop 2 (5)Communication standard: GSM 1800, GSM 1900, GSM 850, GSM 900, HSDPA, LTE 4GTalk time: 8.2 h Standby time: 500 h Battery type: Li-Ion 2500 mAh SIM card type: micro SIM Body construction: monoblock Body materials: plastic Color solutions: white, yellow, green, red, lemon, silver, grey, blue, black Display specifications: Alcatel One Touch Pop 2 (5)Type: 5-inch, TFT, 16 million colors, 854x480 pixels, capacitive, pixel density 196 ppiAdditionally: built-in accelerometer (automatic screen orientation), proximity sensor for automatic shutdown backlight, multi-touch gestures Sound: Alcatel One Touch Pop 2 (5)Vibrating alert: There isSilent call: There is Speakerphone: yes yes Additionally: 3.5mm audio output, MP3 and WAV files as a call Call Control: Alcatel One Touch Pop 2 (5)Call Hold: There isConference call: There is Call forwarding: There is Number definition: There is Voice dialing: There is Additionally: Recent call log: automatic storage of an unlimited number of incoming/outgoing/unanswered calls User Interface: Alcatel One Touch Pop 2 (5)Volume control: There isVoice control: There is Speed Dial: There is Organizer: Alcatel One Touch Pop 2 (5)Watch: There isAlarm: There is Calendar: There is Scheduler: There is Stopwatch: There is Timer: There is Calculator: There is Unit converter: There is World time: There is Dictaphone: There is Input specifications: Alcatel One Touch Pop 2 (5)Backlight: There isBlocking: There is Predictive text input: There is Input in Russian letters: There is Connectivity: Alcatel One Touch Pop 2 (5)SMS: There isMMS: There is GPRS: There is Bluetooth: 4.0 A2DP WiFi: 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot, Wi-Fi Direct support NFC: There is Speed: HSDPA 42Mbps, HSUPA 5.76Mbps, LTE 150Mbps DL, LTE 50Mbps UL Communication with PC: micro USB 2.0 Email: There is EDGE: There is HTML5: There is Additionally: Instant Messaging, Push Email Additional features: Alcatel One Touch Pop 2 (5)Games: downloadableMP3 player: AAC+, FLAC, MP3, WAV Main camera: 5 megapixels maximum resolution 2592x1944 dots, LED flash, autofocus, image geo-tagging, panorama shot, HDR technology Front-camera: yes, the maximum video resolution is 640x480 pixels Video: 30 fps, H.264, MP4, Xvid, maximum video resolution 1920x1080 pixels (Full HD) FM receiver: yes, with RDS support, stereo Java Applications: No Number of records phone book: unlimited, photo on incoming call Built-in memory: 1 GB RAM, 8 GB Type of supported memory cards: microSD Maximum memory card size: up to 32 GB CPU: 1.2 GHz, quad-core processor GPS: yes, with A-GPS support Operating system: Android 5.0 Lollipop Additionally: phone integration with social networks, work with two SIM-cards
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Voychuk D. a year ago
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The phone is 4 years old, during this time the sound completely disappeared, all, in general ... the screen stopped working (just black), rebooted as and when it wants ... stopped charging .... the screen is smashed to smithereens, but the phone continues to work !!! And like a dialer, and a child plays it, the only thing that is definitely already dying is the battery, but in principle, this is not surprising .. honestly, we did not expect such longevity from him ...
Guest 2 years ago
Yandex Market
Never regretted buying it. This is my first smartphone, before that there were Nokia push-buttons. Thank you.
Guest 2 years ago
Yandex Market
Was urgently needed inexpensive smartphone. Settled on this model. And, as it turned out, not in vain! For three years and a million falls (without a cover, without a protective glass fell on tiles and asphalt), the glass has never cracked, only small scratches and microscopic chips on the case. It performs its main work well, practically does not slow down. There is 4G. Android no problem. But the second sim card does not work. For example, if you want to make a call with the second sim, you will have to move it to the place of the first sim. That is, he will not ask which SIM to send SMS or call with. Since they call me sooo often, and it is not always convenient to answer, any melody starts to annoy every other day. Therefore, all 3 years he stood on vibro. But the vibration was heard even in another room (I think it will be good for the deaf). A big plus is that you can remove the battery. Uber is not installed on it. And he does not see the selfie stick. After three years of use, it began to periodically spontaneously turn off (because of which I had to change it), but this is forgivable, since the number of falls on asphalt cannot be counted. Highly recommend! Such strength is not found now
Alexander R. 2 years ago
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Bought for 5k three years - no complaints. Everything works, assembled soundly.
Ilnar H. 2 years ago
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I've been using it for half a year. Constant lags, slows down, freezes, thinks for a very long time. As a navigator on the road fails - freezes, crashes!
Dmitry Zh. 2 years ago
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At first, the phone made me happy, and even 6000 rubles, but then it started to enrage me (read above)
Daria M. 2 years ago
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I'm telling you right now, don't take this crap. You will not get out of the repair. 4 months after the purchase, the touchscreen refused to work completely, they changed it under warranty. Under renovation for 2 months. Six months after the repair, the tach fails again. I decide to replace the touch myself. Touch replaced - works. Buttons failed after a month. The volume button itself began to work constantly. The off button is inactive. The phone cannot be turned off without removing the battery. Repairs are coming again, for 2 years already 3 times. Tired of repairing, repairs come out at half the cost of the phone. And so everything suited. All applications and functions worked properly, if only it were not for the fig Chinese assembly. I was seduced by the old and so long beloved brand Alcatel.
Ivan s. 3 years ago
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I have had this phone for two years. I would have used it further, but when updating the software, the device gave an error. Restarting the system did not help, the phone stopped loading on the introductory animation after turning it on. I had to take it in for repair. If they don't fix it, I'll get another one. I took this device in 2015 for five thousand rubles, I don’t remember the exact amount. After my first smartphone, it seemed to me very smart and powerful. But over time, all this nimbleness quickly disappeared. After a year of operation, it began to slow down wildly at some points, but not often. Sometimes even when watching a video on YouTube, there were lags. But all this at that time was not critical for me, because a laptop appeared, on which I began to carry out all resource-intensive Internet activities. The phone has become for me just a means of communication, a messenger, a camera. The front camera is rather weak, but in normal lighting the face shoots well. With the main camera, things are more interesting. The specifications say that it is five megapixels, but it is possible to shoot video in full Ashdi resolution. The quality of the video, of course, does not reach the real wide format, but the video looks much better pictures taken by the same camera. The photo shows a lot of blurring when zoomed in, and on the video these defects are not particularly noticeable, since there is no need to zoom in. Very fragile protective glass at the main camera, which quickly became covered with scratches. For this reason, the quality of pictures and videos became cloudy. I had to remove the protective glass, the camera became better to shoot, but dust began to clog into the resulting hole. If the hole is regularly blown out, there are no problems with the camera. There is not much internal memory of the phone, only four gigabytes. Previously, I didn’t have enough of this, but when I transferred the main activity to a computer, I no longer needed a large amount of storage on my phone. One of the main problems is the battery. With constant Internet surfing, it must be charged at least twice a day.
Companies that have become owners of a recognizable and popular brand as a result of a merger or acquisition can dispose of the inheritance in different ways. Some of them do not really know what to do with the acquisition, which is why the once popular brand is slowly losing market share and disappearing into a distant and happy past. This is how the situation with the former leader, Nokia, is developing. After it was acquired by Microsoft Corporation, smartphones from the Finnish manufacturer are less and less common in real life. But Alcatel was more fortunate.
After several major mergers, the rights to the brand were acquired by the Chinese TCL, which is very actively promoting smartphones manufactured by the TAMP joint venture (TCL & Alcatel Mobile Phones Limited). The Alcatel One Touch POP 2 5032d review you are reading now is not a panegyric to the once-legendary brand, as skeptics might assume, but an attempt to understand whether it is possible to step into the same river twice. Or, if you prefer, proof that if the manufacturer is not ready to be content with past achievements and listens carefully to the opinions of consumers, everything should work out for him. Therefore, we decided that reviews of the alcatel one touch pop 2 5042d would be no less relevant than an analysis of technical and technical characteristics or a comparison of the novelty with its closest competitors. Agree: an opinion about a phone, expressed by an ordinary person, sometimes means more when choosing a phone than a few professional reviews.
We have already mentioned several times that you can’t count on any additional goodies when buying even a high-level smartphone in our time. And our today's hero confirms this: the buyer will not find anything extra in the box. A standard power supply with an output current of 1A, a micro-USB cable, headphones and a laconic instruction. All! About the bundled memory card, driver disk or coupon for downloading the game from Google Market you can forget. Such savings can be explained, but if before unpacking a newly purchased gadget was almost a holiday, now it has become a routine and unremarkable operation.
WITH target audience The question is not as simple as it seems. On the one hand, only 5,500 rubles are asked for a smartphone, which clearly hints at a budgetary status with all the ensuing consequences. On the other hand, Alcatel One Touch pop 2 doesn't seem frankly cheap or plain, and the future owner of the device will be protected from an inferiority complex. Consequently, the manufacturer offers us an inexpensive, but by no means budget smartphone intended for a relatively wide audience. This is also facilitated by the calm and discreet design, the quality of the materials used and the overall impression of the novelty, which is usually formed in the first 2-3 hours.
Why did we decide to focus on the screen, and consider the hardware characteristics that rely on the state in passing? Agree, the type of processor used, the amount of RAM and others technical specifications the average person is not always interested, and if the smartphone is more or less adequately capable of performing everyday tasks, talking about the speed of the chip will only be of interest to an enthusiastic amateur.
In Alcatel One Touch pop 2, the designers used a conventional TFT screen, rightly judging that IPS technologies have no place in a budget device. The display resolution is only 854 x 480 pixels, which can be a problem with a screen diagonal of 4.5 inches. If you try hard, you can consider individual points, and even lines will turn into a step ladder. Moreover, a TN-matrix is physically unable to provide the number of colors stated in the specifications, when any deviation from a strictly vertical angle results in fading of one part of the screen and a sharp violation of the accuracy of the reproduction of shades in another.
Such a display will not add popularity points to a smartphone, but in ordinary life the situation does not seem so deplorable. Finally, in this price range one way or another, you have to make compromises, and for calls or browsing the Internet, color accuracy is not so important. Especially considering the stated price.
They didn’t get greedy here, so the owners of Alcatel One Touch pop 2 can save $50-100 on buying a budget soap dish with a clear conscience. Our today’s hero shoots very, very well, especially if you take care of more or less decent lighting. The smartphone camera is clearly not up to the level of Sony or HTC, but the difference is noticeable only in direct comparison in specialized programs.
Landscapes and still lifes are given to the novelty well, and defects and artifacts begin to appear when shooting in low light conditions. You can see sample shots below, but we really liked them. And the belief that has spread in recent years, according to which a smartphone should shoot no worse than a professional SLR camera, can be ignored.
Shoots Alcatel One Touch POP 2 5032d very well 
Even under artificial lighting, photos are bright and clear. 
The situation is slightly worse in low light conditions. 
Landscapes and still lifes are good for the novelty. 
Photos of text are clear, not blurry
If certain items of expenditure are cut, then much more remains for other funds. And if during the development of the novelty the choice of the type of display was carried out according to the residual principle, then they did not save on communications. How such an inexpensive smartphone could provide support for all existing standards is unclear, but the fact remains. Alcatel One Touch pop 2 works in networks of 2, 3 and 4 generations and is able to exchange information via Wi-Fi standard b, g and n. Also in the presence of Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi Direct.
As for an inexpensive smartphone, such omnivorousness is amazing. Therefore, the label that was awarded to the novelty immediately after the announcement of criticism is nothing more than a nitpick. The model perfectly keeps in touch in almost any conditions and boasts support for 4G networks. This set of features is not often found in much more expensive smartphones, therefore it is impossible to accuse the brainchild of Alcatel of inferiority.
It would be wrong to completely ignore issues related to performance, so let's briefly touch on the "iron" stuffing. The smartphone has not the fastest processor from Qualcomm (Snapdragon 410) and only 1 GB of RAM. Even taking into account the fact that the chip is 4-core, you can't count on anything special. It was released at the end of 2013 and has become rather outdated, but for undemanding users, its capabilities are more than enough. But the meager savings in memory can no longer be logically explained and justified.
The smartphone does not have the fastest processor from Qualcomm
