Sometimes, the phone even hesitates to go to sleep when you press the power button. Animations for just about everything - even unlocking the phone - play back choppier than a bad GIF. Apps are never in any hurry to open, and the keyboard lingers around for an extra second or two before disappearing when you're done using it. Taps are treated like suggestions, not commands. To put it bluntly, this is a phone that operates on its own schedule. Upon seeing the Alcatel 7 for the first time, you'll doubt that something so generic could actually exist in the real world for any reason other than to evoke the vague concept of a smartphone without infringing on any copyrights. The benchmarks would indicate as much, with Alcatel's offering posting a multicore Geekbench 4 result of 3,604 - well within 300 points of the marks from those other class-leading devices.Īs it turns out, however, those tests don't tell the whole story, because the Alcatel 7 is painfully slow in the real world. Performance: On paper, the Alcatel 7's MediaTek Helio P23 processor should offer performance comparable to the likes of the Moto G6 and Nokia 6.1, two of our favorite sub-$300 handsets. What We Don't Likeįor the couple of things the Alcatel 7 gets right, these downsides make it unworthy of your consideration. Things did get unrealistically bright near the ceiling and the light source, but the improved visibility in the shadows, extra pinch of saturation and greatly increased sharpness produced the kind of photo you'd be much more willing to show your friends. And, once again, the Alcatel 7 painted a livelier shot. The warmer white balance is also more true to life.įor the final round, I switched on HDR mode for both phones. The Alcatel 7 extracted much more color and texture from the petals and leaves than the Honor 7X did. The colors are also far too muted compared with what Alcatel's shooter achieved.Ī similar result played out when I used both phones to capture some roses in Bryant Park. Honor's handset better exposes the background and avoids blowing out the highlights, but the entire right side of the frame is foggy. We put the Alcatel 7 face-to-face with Honor's dual-lens-toting 7X in a photo shoot-out, and the Alcatel 7 actually emerged as the winner in a few key comparisons, like the above shot captured inside our New York office. But I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the images I captured with this handset.

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