Alcatel 5V Unboxing and First Impressions


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Meet Alcatel 5V |
One of them is the Alcatel 5V, a smartphone with modern looking design, speedy MediaTek entry-level chip, big battery capacity, and AI ready cameras.
Unboxing/Accessories
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The box |
Build Quality/Design
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Glass-like back |
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Top |
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Bottom |
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Left |
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Right |
19:9 screen on a budget
The bezels on the sides are slim. The top bezel is also slim, but it has a cutout for the notch which houses the earpiece, selfie camera, proximity sensor, and an LED notification. The chin bezel is thicker, but it is still quite okay.
Initial findings
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AnTuTu score of Alcatel 5V |
1. The Alcatel 5V features a neat design with decent construction for the price. The screen is 6.2-inch big with HD+ resolution. I wished that it was sharper than that. But fortunately, it has decent quality with acceptable sharpness and brightness.
2. Inside, it runs with the 12nm chip, the Helio P22 octa-core processor clocked at 2.0GHz. It is paired with the PowerVR GE8320 GPU. It also has ample 3GB RAM. The storage is at 32GB. The battery capacity is its main highlight at 4,000mAh. Its overall specs is considered as a bit above-average for the price. Thanks to its big battery capacity. It would have been better if it has 4GB RAM though.
Actual performance is snappy so far. It can also play some heavy games on low or medium settings. It even has 700MHz 4G LTE connectivity.
3. It runs with Android 8.1 Oreo OS. It is has an app drawer with neat looking icons. It is feature-rich as well. It is also pretty snappy so far. We just noticed that it goes with a lot of bloats. Most of them are removable.
4. At the back, there's 2 cameras in total. There's a 12MP f/2.2 sensor and a 2MP f/2.4 depth sensor for bokeh shots. It also has PDAF and EIS. The bokeh comes with a refocus feature. There's AI for scene detection and face beauty too.
It can detect portrait, night, low light, food, animals, text, beach, blue sky, backlighting, and more modes. After detecting the scene, it will automatically adjust the contrast, saturation, brightness, sharpness, and resolution for the best shot possible.
For selfies, there's an 8MP f/2.8 camera with EIS. Do not expect much from it when it comes to low light shooting.
5. There's fingerprint reader at the back. It is speedy and accurate so far. The face unlock is also quite fast. It a bit slower in low light, but it still works. There's an LED notification on the left side of the notch. There's an OTG and gyroscope sensor as well.
Related: Alcatel 5V: First Camera Samples
Alcatel 5V Specs
As of the moment
The Alcatel 5V has the design, specs, and features that can hold its own with similarly priced smartphones from competing brands. It can be considered as an Alcatel device with pretty aggressive price tag.It may still have a hard time against other bang for the buck devices, but it is decent so far.
For our review: Alcatel 5V Review - Big battery, AI cameras
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