Alcatel One Touch Hero — An Army Of And By Itself
Two phones and two covers. The Hero is quite an army by itself!
While the world waited with bated breath for the launch of the iPhone 5S, there was another phone that launched in IFA 2013 Berlin — Alcatel One Touch Hero that went pretty much unnoticed.
But not by Chip-Monks. This innovative and imminently expandable smartphone caught our fancy. It’s an intriguing device. Let’s tell you why.
To start with, this dual SIM phone is a phablet with a 6 inch display with a pixel resolution of 367ppi. Bearing a decent resolution of 1080x1920 pixels this promises to be a decent display for it’s size. On the muscle side, a 1.5 GHz quad-core processor running with 2 GB RAM and Android’s refined version 4.2 Jelly Bean OS promise eloquent performance.
Armed with an inbuilt 16 GB of memory, with the capability to take on an additional 32 GB memory via MicroSD card, this device is quite ready for your life.
Now come the interesting parts — the smartphone comes with a stylus and handwriting recognition capability built into its firmware, to enable increased productivity and faster maneuverability around the interface.
The Alcatel One Touch Hero can also be a serious photo-walks companion with its 13 megapixel rear camera and a 2 megapixel front camera. Powering this device is a 3400mAh battery (for a rough comparison — iPhone5S has a 1570mAh and Samsung Galaxy S4 has a 2600mAh battery powering them) which will far outlive your walks!
The Alcatel One Touch Hero comes with two absolutely awesome and innovative accessories for the phone:
- Intelligent Phone Covers
- Small Bluetooth Add-on Phone
Covers are not just used to protect the phone any more, with the Alcatel Hero, they will act as your alternate screen!
Well, expandability is clearly built into the DNA of this phone. It has a dock port with eight magnets along the right side on the back, which allow for the accessories to connect.
One of those accessories is an e-ink cover, which acts like an additional screen on the phone. The cover allows you to read on the black-and-white screen itself thus removing at least 40% of the usage of the regular screen. While the e-ink cover itself consumes almost zero power, it further reduces the power consumption by alleviating the use of the primary screen!
It is obvious that Alcatel have spent a lot of time ideating on how the covers of the future will look like, and innovating around those lines. The Hero benefits from those explorations.
The Hero comes with another cover too, called the MagicFlip; which allows you to see notifications via LED lights in the screen.
Now on to the second accessory that Alcatel’s built for the Hero. It is a small Bluetooth-enabled miniature version of a primary phone.
This Mini-Me version allows you to do a lot of stuff without touching your primary device.
You can view your call logs, make or receive calls, read text messages, view phone contacts and more. The ability to fulfil so much of your telephony requirements through the smaller twin instead of the inconvenience of handling the bigger device while also preserving the battery, is absolutely spectacular.
Excited? Ready to spend? Well, all you early adopters and technology lovers will have to wait till October 2013 for the final release of the phone.
It is slated to go on sale in Russia and China in the first phase this October, and the rest of the world in the subsequent quarters.
We’re eagerly waiting to get this superb phablet and its brethren in our hands to stress test it!
Originally published at Chip-Monks.
