Over and over again we’ve been seeing more and more mid-range devices flowing in and out of the market as if it’s just a leaf dropped onto a river. There are some big pieces of leaf what will never flow out of the river that easily – and that might just be the Alcatel Flash 2. It’s a mid-range device with the lowest price and with decent camera – how well does it fare in a saturated market?
Let’s find out what this RM549 smartphone can do!
Packaging
The first note that I received from Alcatel is the size of the box. I’m impressed, because this box itself is quite beautiful yet simple. Personally, I love the packaging – and wait till you see what’s inside the box too, that’s why we have this unboxing video.
Yeah, everything that is shown in the video itself is what you’ll get when you buy the Alcatel Flash 2. EVERYTHING – including the film screen protector, earphones, and even the faux leather flip case.
Display
Let’s start with the front – it’s a perfectly-sized 5-inch design which complements to one of the main aspects considered while designing this phone itself. That said, the Flash 2 has a pretty bright display too, making it perfectly usable while sunbathing even.
Though the panel used in this phone only has 1280×720 resolution, I suppose it’s either this or extend to 1920×1080 which will require a whole lot more powerful hardware.
Design
Alcatel did a pretty good design with the Flash 2, with its reoccurring theme as the green power shows up subtly as its color accent all around the phone.
Right below that bright display is where the usual set of capacitive keys are found – a back button, beautifully designed home button, and a multitasking button. Here, the power of green showed itself with through the green circular home button, and I find it a real nice touch than the usual flushed black colour.3GHz and the Mali-T720 that it has got the whole performance department covered. Also, it has 2GB of RAM for a little bit more multitasking capability.
Speaking of RAM, Vellamo tests showed that the phone can run relatively okay in everyday usage. In most of the tests, it scored more or less about the same as the Nexus 5. Now, this is not a complaint, as the Alcatel Flash 2 can withstand much longer battery life.
Software
One of the main highlight of this phone is that it runs really damn near to stock Android – and that for me is a really good thing. There are only a few differences from stock Android that I can find, which are mostly tiny utilities instead of bloatware.
If you’ve used stock Android before, then this phone is no stranger to what you’ve encountered before. I have to point out that by using stock Android, updates can be pushed much faster, and very little additional problems are present since not much changes had been done. Also, Alcatel can save cost from developing useless software that no one will use anyway, and do the customers a really huge favour!
Battery
Here’s one of the main concern of many users. We want a decent amount of power, but don’t want to pay the price with battery life. I think Alcatel Flash 2 made a really good compromise between the screen resolution, the processor and graphics, and the magnificently huge 3,000 mAh battery, which seems to be a norm these days.
On a normal day, this phone can last for at least a full day with extra 30% juice left on a medium to heavy usage, while drained only about 5% of battery while playing Angry Birds 2 for 45 minutes straight.
The Alcatel Flash 2 however does not support any sort of quick charging technology, and the bundled charger is the slowest of all charger – an output of 5V, 1A. It will charge the Flash 2, no worries on that, but it’ll surely take a long time. Just plug the phone to the charger and call it a night instead.
Wrap up
The Alcatel Flash 2 comes in a very affordable price of RM549. Seriously, no other smartphones of this price has comparable performance in the market. Alcatel pointed out that this is directly influenced largely by the no-nonsense advertising and direct sales of the Flash 2 through e-commerce platforms, and the Alcatel Flash 2 will be available exclusively on Lazada starting 26th October.
To buy or not to buy – that is the question. To that I say, if you’re looking for a mid-range smartphone that does all the basic smartphony things, then the Alcatel Flash 2 is perfect for you!
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