alcatel Pop 4
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- Anonymous
- LiQ
- 02 Jan 2022
Anonymous, 08 Nov 20203 years ago, I bought this phone to my mother. She literall... moreExactly, and they give it a Android 6 i really dont know what were they expecting from a gigabyte of ram and a snapdragon 210
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- Anonymous
- Trx
- 08 Nov 2020
3 years ago, I bought this phone to my mother. She literally just needed something simple with large screen. After one year, storage related issues started (just when she learned, how to use it). Just OS itself somehow eats all of the storage up to the point, where you can't really use the phone for anything else but calls. There is preinstaled annoying launcher with adds that you can't uninstall. Also, most, if not all, apps, that came with device, can't be uninstalled. Seriously, If somebody at Alcatel ever though that it is good idea to sell garbage like this, I don't think they can ever build something good.
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- Anonymous
- nG9
- 27 Aug 2020
Phone gets slow, not enough RAM or storage for general use really. SD card expansion is useless as you can't really move apps to it. Keep in mind the OS will use upwards of half of the storage available - this space is rapidly eaten up and mysteriously disappears! Then you are left with space for maximum two apps.
Good for browsing (mediocre quality) pictures, basic internetting, calls and texts.
You will not be gaming on this device (even if there was enough space for a game).
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- Anonymous
- 0Rk
- 03 Jul 2019
Okay so there are a lot of bad reviews on this phone but I had this phone for three years and it didn't do me too badly yes it has a few storage issues and that's the only reason why this phone has had to be replaced unfortunately because I really liked this phone. Definitely the best phone so far
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- Anonymous
- Tsm
- 07 May 2019
this is genuinely the worst phone i tried redeeming it with a custom rom 2 years ago but none were available the camera which was the main selling point of the device was bad very bad do not buy this phone the ui they've been shipping with it is the worst keep all the bloatware as it came in the box as it starts toi break when updated
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- Gloova
- g8B
- 10 Mar 2019
Anonymous, 07 Jan 2018Excellent smartphone, highly reliable, good battery life, a... moreMate this phone works about as well as my arsehole does for electronic standard , the camera has the quality of an stick , I can take better pictures with my dog as the camera , a potato has more RAM , it would be more fun to cut my toes off with a rusty spoon and watch it slowly bleed and get tetanus and die
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- zaentzpantz
- pY%
- 23 Jan 2019
zaentzpantz, 15 Oct 2018My wife & I have used and owned mobile phones for about... morePS To add to the above review, we now have Xiaomi Mi A2 lite phones and the improvement is indescribable. We can now do so much and so easily with our new phones. It confirms that the problem wasn't us but the poor quality phones fom Alcatel.
Goodbye Alcatel, goodbye Tesco Mobile!
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- nat
- g5P
- 13 Jan 2019
Worst phone I've ever used. So slow and laggy, camera is shit.
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- Anonymous
- myB
- 09 Dec 2018
The Alcatel pop 4 is one of the worst phones on the market.
1. The camera is terrible even for the price of the phone
2. Sometimes individual letters on the keyboard stop working and you have to keep spamming the keyboard for it to finally work.
3. 1GB RAM is not enough at all.
4. I have used multiple android phones before this but on none of them have I seen the message, setting does not work,. Only Alcatel can pull that off.
5. The phone autodownloads apps for you and the apps that are downloaded are also useless.
6. With the introduction of joy launcher my phone storage has decreased massively and sometimes even brings me a message saying that ,joy launcher has stopped responding. On no other android phone will the home screen stop responding.
7. 8GB storage is not enough for anyone
I am a teenager and my dad bought me this phone a year ago, bit to all father's out there, when finding your child a phone, ask them what they want and if it is too expensive but in a cheaper filter on the searches and then show them the phone that you think is good. Also make sure that you check the specs. When my dad bought me this phone, he didn't check the specs. He only checked the reviews on Amazon ( apparently they were good). Personally if you want to save money on your cjilds phone. Get them a vivo, oppo, or either Samsung j or Samsung a series.
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- Anonymous
- Jix
- 08 Dec 2018
The worst phone I have ever had. I would say to anyone don't get one. Totally useless. I have an SD card but you cannot transfer anything to it - even in the vodafone shop the 'experts' could not. Therefore with this problem, the two apps I do have seem like a luxury item. My contract ends May 19 and like many other people reviewing this phone I WILL HIT IT WITH A HAMMER.
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- danielstorey
- Hq4
- 03 Dec 2018
This phone is crap!
I bought the Alcatel pop 4 in January 2018. I like many others i have experienced the phone running very very slow. Anything i use on the phone takes ages to pop up. The keyboard is slow to pop up and even answering a call is not achieved immediately as i swipe to answer it. Any pin number or swipe pattern reacts slow as well. The fact that it has a micro sd slot is ridiculous as you can't move any apps to it at all. I have found this phone to be a pain in the butt and all this without having facebook, instagram, fb messenger etc installed on it. I have read the positive reviews here for this phone and am surprised by them.
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- zaentzpantz
- pY%
- 15 Oct 2018
My wife & I have used and owned mobile phones for about 20 years, and nothing compares with the two Alcatel Pop 4 phones which we have owned for nearly two years, and have only just avoided being modified with a hammer (end of contract nearly in sight - hooray!).
After the first few weeks the incessant updates started, changing the apps drastically from quite usable basic ones to almost unusable apps (Candy Gallery an the appalling Joy Launcher for instance). The keyboard is sometimes ok, sometimes unresponsive. The three off-screen buttons work some of the time. It's just an awful phone to try and use.
The bloatware ensures that most of the 8GB storage is already used up, so we have had to choose just one or two apps to have on the phone - they are a bit like luxury items, but stringent housekeeping keeps the phone fairly usable.
The SD card has now lost half of the photos as a result of trying to upload them for backup, so it's getting worse. Our contract provider (Tesco Mobile) has been exceptionally unhelpful during all this.
We have never had any problems like this on our prevous Nokia, Samsung, Sony or LG phones.
Avoid Alcatel like the plague!
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- Anonymous
- nu2
- 12 Oct 2018
I am typing this on my Pop4, and just using the keyboard to type this is making me want to throw the phone against a wall. I have read a few of the comments and have to agree with them. The keyboard alone slows my phone down, like, it just crashed and locked itself whilst I was typing this. I managed to push the device into holding five medium sized apps and cannot download any more due to the horrendously low storage. Sometimes when I am scrolling through a news article, the phone would do things that I don't want it to, like open messaging or come out of the article. The cameras on both sides of the device are the worst I have ever used, meaning I have had to put my photography on hold until I get a new, better phone. The preinstalled apps are very obnoxious, meaning that you have to restore them to factory just to update one app. I do not like Apple products, but I would rather have an iPhone than the vomit in the form of the Alcatel Pop4. The only good things I can say about it is that the speaker is okay, you can hear someone on the other end of a phone call clearly and the flashlight is decent
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- Netherduck
- 3SI
- 02 Aug 2018
There is one type of person who will think that this phone is okay , the people that only use their phones to call and message people.
This phone is a disappointment.
The rear camera is okay for the phones price but the front is one of the worst cameras I've ever seen ( it even has a glitch that happens often that makes the colours a bit more brown, it makes me look like a potato XD )
1 GB of ram won't be enough for anyone , the moment you exit from an app everything is lost and you have to load the app again , the CPU is bad as well.
Sometimes the phone crashes at random times.
( Also expected lagging in pretty much any app out there )
If you have sweaty hands the screen is gonna start freaking out.
8GB of internal storage , why Alcatel ... Why are you doing this to me?
( Keep in mind that the storage you can actually use is about 1.1 GB )
The list of bad things about this phone is endless, but not everything is bad.
The phone doesn't look that bad , it has an led light for the front camera which I didn't expect ( mainly cause it sucks almost in everything else ) and a few little things here and there that are okay for its price.
That being said , I don't recommend this phone to anyone.
Do your research ( ~ v 0 )
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- Anonymous
- nFq
- 29 Jul 2018
i have had this phone for over a year and it is the worst, slowest device on the market. It is so slow that i have gotten used to waiting 2-5 minutes for basic apps to load up. my advice, put in a little extra money into your budget, there is a big jump up in quality between these lower tier £100 ish phones and the £300 mid-rangers. You can even find top quality phone that competes with £400 plus ones. Do a lot of research into finding the best device for your budget.
So pleased to be getting a new phone
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- AnonD-773569
- nFY
- 18 Jul 2018
Anonymous, 10 Jun 2018For everyone who has to suffer with using this piece of cra... moreWhen are you getting your next phone?
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- Anonymous
- IP9
- 10 Jun 2018
For everyone who has to suffer with using this piece of crap phone I wouldn't even give to my worst enemy, I have something to cheer you up. When I get my new phone, I shall stream a video of myself destroying the phone with a sword.
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- Anonymous
- nGB
- 06 Jun 2018
terrible phone, seems fine at first but gets so horrendously slow and unable to use because of how slow it is, also the camera is super grainy
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- annonymous
- QP7
- 28 May 2018
I REALLY HATE THIS BRAND! (plus there's no storage) The phone is ugly and makes peple say: EW what brand is that!? Ya know? I recommend Apple all the way
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- Stupid
- nw}
- 26 May 2018
Anonymous, 29 Apr 2018Bad phone , software updates have f*cking viruses in it.WTF... moreAbsolutely useless can't say much more that. I wouldn't recommend Alcatel to anyone.