Hello my name's Mark welcome to my review channel
today we're going to take a look at the Alcatel 5
The 5 represents the
very best of Alcatel it has a nice 5.7
inch display which looks fantastic
it feels great in the hand I love the
re-design I think this is the
best-looking phone Alcatel have produced
for a long time unfortunately a time of
review it was only running Android
version 7 and if you go and check for
system updates there's currently none
available I don't know if they're
planning to put this on eight or even
nine which is coming out soon but
hopefully they will update it it uses a
USB type-c port on the bottom and you
still have the headphone jack on the top
they've bucked the trend on that one the
back is a plastic but I think it looks
really nice it's actually quite nice to
see something that isn't so glass on the
back there you've got a camera flash and
fingerprint scanner I love the little
metal trim they've put around because it
gives it a slightly more premium feel
for something that's very much a budget
handset fingerprint scanner on this is
really good once you've got your finger
programmed in it unlocks the phone very
quickly alternatively you can use face
key which is basically a face unlock and
that also works very quickly it's great
to see this feature on something that
costs less than 200 pounds. In terms of
the camera I took it out and about took
some Instagram shots and overall they
were okay the colors weren't quite as
punchy as I might have hoped but I think
considering the price you're always
going to get a slightly poorer quality
camera compared to top-end handsets but
I think it does the job quite nicely I
love the styling of this it looks a
little bit like an Xperia XA1 and
you have actually two cameras on the
front and that allows you to switch to a
wide-angle mode it will do that
automatically if it detects multiple
faces or you can trigger it and take
your own shots and there's narrow and
there's wide. So you know I love a good
comparison test. I've got the Alcatel 5 up against the OnePlus 6
Which do you think looks best?
The one on the left or the one on the right? I'm walking down a
busy road so there should be some background
noise so here's the audio on the one on
the left can you hear me nice and
clearly and here's the audio on the one
on the right again we've got cars
about to pass so you should hear those in
the background so now time for the big reveal: the phone on
the left is the Alcatel 5
The phone on the right is the OnePlus 6
That footage was taken using the
front-facing camera here's some footage
taken via the rear facing camera and if you
add a bit of motion overall I think it
does a pretty good job you can see the
autofocus making the video bounce a
little bit but you could quite easily do
a little bit of vlogging with this and
it's got some extra features like light
trace and there's also the ability to
capture time lapses without any
additional apps so here I am capturing a
time lapse and you'll see in a second
over the time lapse period it does tend
to bounce a little bit because of the
autofocus just zooms in and out a little
bit but I think the overall result is
really promising I think it's a great
little feature if you want to use this
for social media and getting yourself
some time lapses or general photos for
your Instagram account it doesn't
disappoint in the gaming area either
and even though speaker on the bottom
okay actually don't forget to easily covered up.
this is a really great phone for
gaming on the screens nice and wide you
can see it play asphalt 9 no problem
whatsoever it's really really slickly
I've really enjoyed playing games on
this phone and Alcatel have actually
included a couple a little bit bloatware
but there is a spider-man game that
you can have all mash on but you can see
it can do both the basic spider-man
stuff and the more advanced racing games
there's a huge amounts like with the
Alcatel 5 especially the price
considering it's less than £200 pounds at
the time of review you're getting a
really nice phone it feels great in the
hand looks a lot more premium than you'd
expect and features lots of extra
technology that you'd normally get on
much more expensive hands such as
face unlock. It plays games no problem
streaming no problem it's good to watch
videos on the screens lovely there's
really not a lot to dislike
about this okay the cameras not going to
be the best camera you're going to get
but that's to be expected when you paying
mid-range prices. If you'd like to learn
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