, Alcatel One Touch 6012x IDOL MINI - Overview ... More precisely, a tale about why a small idol must be single-handed

17.12.2013

Lyrical accession

While the spaceships continue to pursue the expanses of large, medium and small prospectuses of theaters, smartphone marketers quietly behave their invisible work for the general public. And as a result of this work, very strange devices appear from time to light.

Alcatel One Touch Idol MINI exists in two varieties. Single-minded and two-minute. The usual thing. But, unfortunately, the difference between the models is not limited to the amount of sims.

Little funny feature. When you do a snapshot smartphone, usually somewhere in the corner of the screen it appears his small icon. You click on it - you watch the last frame. And here - Opans - no icon of this! First, I swore for a long time, then I realized that to see the last frame, you just need to make a swipe right left.

Video can be removed with the resolution to HD (1280x720). Examples in front of you:

Front camera - modest, VGA (640x480). The quality of the pictures is frankly no.

Alcatel One Touch 6012D IDOL MINI as GPS navigator

In full compliance with the claimed TTX. Satellites are caught for quite a reasonable time. No support for GLONASS. As a pedestrian navigator comes off. Only behind the battery level, do not forget.

Alcatel One Touch 6012D IDOL MINI as a video player

The pre-installed outer player is not different. Play something knows a lot. But with sound tracks - regular problems.

Traditionally put MX Player. When viewing a video size to HD inclusive, there are no problems. The main problem is a small amount of memory where you could write a video.

Alcatel One Touch 6012D IDOL MINI as an audio player

And you know, very nice.

Alcatel One Touch 6012D IDOL MINI and Internet

Would you know how hard to go with a five-year-old screen on 4.3! But, in general, with the tasks of the type of view of the news and reading twitters / VKontaktov, the device copes. Only too many tabs in browsers do not open.

Alcatel One Touch 6012D Idol Mini as a toy

In general, everything is not bad. Is that Pitfall! Traditionally, on this chipseet, you are capricious. Well, something in trifles. For the new 3 won, there is no place at all.

The game	Problems?
Angry Birds Star Wars	All right
Angry Birds GO!	All right
Pitfall!	He slows down too much, to play uncomfortable.

Battery capacity: 1700 mA · h Battery: Fat time conversation: 20 h Time expectation: 540 h Time to operate music: 30 h

Additional Information

Complete set: phone, power adapter, USB cable, headset

General characteristics

Type: Smartphone Weight: 96 g Control: Touch Buttons Case Material: Plastic Operating System: Android 4.2 Case Type: Classic Number of SIM Cards: 1 Sizes (shXVXT): 62x127.1x7.9 mm SAR level: 0.566

Screen

Screen type: Color IPS, 16.78 million colors, type Type touchscreen: Multitach, capacitive diagonal: 4.3 inches. Image Size: 854x480 Number of pixels per inch (PPI): 228

Multimedia features

Camera: 5 million Pixes., Built-in Flash Camera Function: Autofocus Video Recording: There is Max. Video resolution: 1280x720 Frontal camera: Yes, 0.3 million Pixes. Audio: MP3, FM Radio Max. Video frame frequency: 30 frames / with recognition: persons

Communication

Interfaces: Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth 4.0, USB standard: GSM 900/1800/1900, 3G satellite navigation: GPS System A-GPS: yes

Memory and processor

Processor: 1300 MHz Number of processor cores: 2 Volume of built-in memory: 4 GB Volume random access memory: 512 MB Memory Card Support: MicroSD (Transflash), up to 32 GB Volume Accessible Memory User: 2 GB Memory Card Slot: Yes, up to 32 GB

Other functions

Control: voice set, voice control Sensors: light, approximation, compass Flight mode: A2DP profile: yes

TFT IPS. - High-quality liquid crystal matrix. It has wide viewing angles, one of the best color rendering performance and contrast among all that are used in the manufacture of displays for portable equipment.
Super Amoled. - If several layers are used in the usual AMOLED screen, between which the air layer is located, then in Super AMOLED, such a touch layer is only one without air gaps. This allows you to achieve greater screen brightness with the same power consumption.
Super AMOLED HD. - It differs from Super AMOLED to a large resolution, thanks to which you can achieve a value of 1280x720 pixels on the mobile phone screen.
Super Amoled Plus. - This is a new generation of Super AMOLED displays, differs from the previous use. more Subpixels in the usual RGB matrix. New displays are thinner and brighter by 18% than displays made according to old technology using Pentile matrix.
Amoled. - Advanced version of OLED technology. The main advantages of technology are significantly reduced power consumption, the ability to display a large color gamut, a smaller thickness and the ability of the display a little, without risk to break.
Retina. - Dyspals with high pixel density designed specifically for Apple technology. Pixel density by retina displays Such is that individual pixels are indistinguishable for the eye at the usual distance from the screen. It provides the highest image detail and significantly improves the viewing quality as a whole.
Super Retina HD. - The display is performed using OLED technology. Pixel density - 458 PPI, contrast reaches an indicator of 1,000,000: 1. The display has advanced color coverage and unsurpassed color reproduction. The pixels in the display corners are smoothed at the subpixel level, so the boundaries are not distorted and look smooth. The Super Retina HD enhancing layer is 50% thicker. Smash the screen will be harder.
Super LCD. - This is the next generation of LCD technologies, it is characterized by advanced characteristics, compared with earlier LCD displays. Screens have not only wide viewing angles and better color reproduction, but also reduced energy consumption.
TFT.- A common type of liquid crystal displays. Using an active matrix controlled by thin-film transistors, it is possible to significantly increase the speed of the display, as well as the contrast and clarity of the image.
Oled. - Organic electroluminescent display. It consists of a special thin-film polymer that emits light under the action of an electric field. This type of displays has a large brightness stock and consumes very little energy.

Alcatel One. Touch Idol MINI is compact smartphone From the IDOL line. He is not deprived corporate style Companies, thanks to which it looks great. Unfortunately, it did not cost without simplification, they affected the processor and RAM. Let's see what this smartphone is capable of.

Alcatel One Touch Idol Mini is made in similar with other Alcatel One Touch Idol style models and it is good. The design of the smartphone is recognizable and original. The corpus is uncalapping, well-assembled and very thin, the thickness of only 7.9 mm. The length of the smartphone is 127.1 mm, the width is 62 mm, and the weight is 97 grams. With such parameters, the smartphone is practically not felt in pocket pants.

The location of the keys and interfaces are the following: at the top on the front panel there is a lighting sensor, approximation, voice speaker, front camera by 0.3 mp and the missed event indicator. At the bottom of the front panel there are three hardware touch keys with backlit. At the ends of the smartphone there is a power button and a 3.5 mm connector (from above), microUSB and a primary microphone (bottom), a slot for Micro-SIM and MicroSD (right) and the volume of the volume adjustment to the left (left). On the back cover there is a camera lens, it repeats somewhat above the surface of the case and has a silver bezel, a flash, a second microphone, a manufacturer's logo and a multimedia speaker. Back cover Made of plastic imitating metal. Prints on the lid are visible only at a certain angle, and they are easily erased.

In general, there is no critical comments to the ergonomics of the smartphone. The plugs of the connectors are sitting reliably and tight. You can use the smartphone with one hand conveniently, even despite the location of the power button on the upper end. Mechanical keys have a tight, but well distinctive move. Due to the thin case, low weight and pleasant materials, the device is pleased to use.

Operating system and shell

Smartphone running running operating system Android 4.2.2 using your own interface. The branded shell is pleasant in appearance and is to some extent symbiosis of Miui and Android Jelly Bean.

The interface is almost completely the same as the older models. The lock screen can accommodate up to nine widgets from which you can go to full screen mode. In addition to the widgets on the lock screen, there are four pictograms (dialing, messages, camera and unlock), which are enclosed in a circle. The selection of pictograms and unlocking the smartphone is carried out using a small circle. It also changes its location relative to the inclination of the body thanks to the built-in accelerometer. This feature It looks interesting and fun. By the way, during charging in the middle of the circle indicates the level of charge. Without unlocking your smartphone, you can go to the notifications panel and mode switches. Change and move the mode switching icons is not possible.

After unlocking, we fall on one of five desktops, where there are widgets and program pictograms. Senior models are the main menu, and the IDOL MINI is just a desktop with widgets and program labels. On the desktop, you can create folders on the desktop by dragging the application shortcuts. With a debt of clicking on the widget, the sliders appear, with which you can resize the widget.

By clicking on the icon located in the lower right corner, we get into the application menu. Application menu has three tabs: general programs, Uploaded programs and widgets. Despite the refusal of some manufacturers from more preset programs Alcatel One Touch did not go on this path and installed a large number of Programs, good, they can be easily removed. Among the pre-installed programs can be found antivirus, office application, a large number of social Services And almost all services from Google. There is an ability to block alerts from selected programs, as well as a memory selection where applications are installed.

The interface works well, the twitching rarely happen, but in cases of launching a heavy application and subsequent exit from it - the desktop labels are redrawn.

As standard keyboard Installed SwiftKey. The browser ships the pages quickly, his work does not cause complaints.

I want to note that some standard applications Persted according to the overall style of design. Among them you can highlight the compass, calculator, flashlight and radio.

Hardware platform

It is worth noting that the smartphone can be represented in two versions of 6012x and 6012d. The first version with the 6012X index is characterized by the presence of a single SIM card, a microSD slot, as well as 4 GB of internal memory. The version with the 6012D index has already two slots for SIM cards, 8 GB of integrated memory, but no microSD slot.

Alcatel One Touch Idol MINI works on the basis of the budget SOC MT6572 from MediaTek. This processor was built in 28 nm in the process, it has two Cortex A7 kernels with a frequency of 1.3 GHz. The role of the video screen is a well-known MALI 400 MP. Although this SOC is considered budget, it demonstrates good results in synthetic tests. The amount of RAM is modest for the standards of the late 2013, and is 512 MB. During normal use, no more than 140 MB of RAM remained. The volume of the built-in storage is 4 GB, of which about 2 GB is available to the user.

Playing video files

Codec / title	FinalDestination5.mp4	Neudergimie.2.mkv	s.T.A.L.K.E.R.VII.	Spartacus.mkv	Paralleluniverse.avi.
Video	MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920 × 798 29.99fps	MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920 × 816 23.98fps	XVID 712 × 400 25.00fps 1779Kbps	Mpeg4 Video (H264) 1280 × 720 29.97fps	Mpeg4 Video (H264) 1280 × 536 24.00fps 2726kbps
Audio	AAC 48000HZ STEREO 96KBPS	MPEG Audio Layer 3 44100Hz Stereo	Mpeg Audio Layer 3 48000hz Stereo 128Kbps	Dolby AC3 44100Hz Stereo	MPEG Audio Layer 3 44100Hz Stereo 256Kbps

This smartphone is not positioned as a game, but, nevertheless, performance will be enough for undemanding games.

Volume and sound quality in the speakers are good. Thanks to the thoughtful arrangement of the speaker, the call will be hard, as even when the phone lies on the table, the speaker does not overlap. Microphone qualitatively transfers speech. Sound in headphones is good.

During most tasks, the smartphone housing was not heated. Work in wi-Fi network I did not arouse questions, everything works quickly and without connecting connections. Satellite search is somewhat faster than on other devices with MediaTek chipsets.

Autonomy

Alcatel One Touch Idol Mini shows the average autonomy results. Inside a thin case hid accumulator battery With a capacity of 1700mach. With average loads such as: about an hour of calls, permanently enabled data transfer - the smartphone is able to hold out the day. If the device is more actively used, it is likely that it will not last until the end of the working day. There is a power saving mode. With the results of autonomy tests can be found below.

Performance performance
Mode \\ model	Alcatel One Touch Idol Mini	Samsung Galaxy Ace. 3	Alcatel Ot Scribe HD	Fly IQ444 Diamond 2
Music	5%	6%	2%	6%
Reading	22%	15%	23%	25%
Navigation	27%	22%	26%	33%
View HD video	24%	28%	27%	20%
View HD video with YouTube	25%	30%	30%	21%
ANTUTU TESTER (Points)	689	655	644	906

To listen to music, a standard player was used, the volume at a value of 12 out of 15 possible, MP3 files with a bit rate of 320 kbps. In read mode, all wireless communications are disabled, including data transfer to mobile networkand the display brightness is 50% installed. Navigation includes a route gasket in google Appendix Navigation. The brightness is exhibited by 50%, all communication data modules are disabled. When playing video, the display brightness is set by 50%, the sound volume in headphones at 12 levels from possible 15. MKV video file format, 1024x432 dot resolution, frame rate 24. When playing video from YouTube, the display brightness is installed by 50%, the sound volume in the headphones on 12 out of 15 possible levels.

Display and camera

Currently even budget smartphones Began to equip IPS displays. Alcatel One Touch Idol MINI boasts a 4.3-inch IPS display with a resolution of 854 × 480 points, there is a sensor for automatic brightness adjustment. The display perceives up to five simultaneous presses. Screen viewing angles are close to maximum, juicy colors, high brightness. The display is faded in the sun, but the information remains readable. The maximum brightness is 394 kD / m², the average brightness value is 199 cd / m², and the minimum 43 cd / m². The overestimated minimum value negatively affects the use of the device in the dark. The smartphone screen displays the shades of gray somewhat dark than they should be. Color coverage only slightly exceeds SRGB. But if you do not find fault, then the smartphone is equipped with an excellent display, as for its price category.

Alcatel One Touch Idol Mini has two cameras on 5 MP and 0.3 Mp. As mentioned above, the chamber can be called from the lock screen. The camera interface is simple and intuitive. Video is written with a resolution of 720p.

There is a HDR, panorama and night mode in the chamber. In addition, in the settings, you can change the mode of the flash, turn on the timer and select the size of the photos. Examples of photos can be found below.

Examples of photos shot by a smartphone Alcatel One Touch Idol Mini

Examples of HDR photos shot by the Alcatel One Touch Idol Mini smartphone

Camera settings are even simpler. They contain only the choice of quality and the outbreak mode.

RESULTS

Alcatel One Touch Idol Mini A pleasant smartphone, which first of all differs from competitors an attractive design, high-quality display, good assembly and a beautiful visual sheath. The disadvantages should include a small amount of RAM.

According to TCT Mobile, in Ukraine, the smartphone will be sold in the version with two SIM cards. The recommended retail cost will amount to 1399 UAH, and the start of sales is scheduled for December 2013.

Liked
+ Assembly
+ Design
+ Screen

Did not like
- Small RAM

The product is provided for Testing TCT Mobile Europe S.A.S. In Ukraine, www.alcatelonetouch.com.ua Standard High-speed data transmissionGPRS, EDGE, HSDPA / HSUPA Dimensions (mm)127.1x62x7.9 Mass (g)96 Processor (for smartphones)MediaTek MT6572 (2 cores Cortex-A7, 1,3GHz) + GPU Mali 400mp MemoryRAM 512 MB + 8 GB ROM Slot expansion— Main screen.IPS, 4,3, 854 × 480, oleophobic coating Keyboard typeon-screen entry Accumulator battery1700 mAh. Opening hours (manufacturer data)up to 20/9h in conversation mode (2G / 3G), up to 540 / 450h in standby mode (2G / 3G) Micro-Sim.Number of SIM cards2 CPUMediaTek MT6572 + GPU Mali 400mp Number of Cores2 Frequency, GHz1,3 Battery1700 mAh. Diagonal, inches4,3 Resolution854x480. Type of matrixIPS. PPI228 Brightness adjustment sensor+ Display featuresoleophobic coating Main camera, MP5 Video shooting[Email Protected] Flash+ Front camera, MP0,3 Communication standardsGSM 850/900/1800/1900, UMTS 900/2100 Wi-Fi802.11b / g / n, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi Access Point Bluetooth4.0 GPS.+ Irda.- FM radio+ (RDS) Audio invoice3.5mm. NFC.- Interface connectorUSB 2.0 (Micro-USB) Height, mm.127.1x62x7.9 Weight, G.96 Protection against dust and moisture- Type of shellmonoblock Corps materialplastic Keyboard typeon-screen entry YetSupplies: Charger, USB Cable, Headset, User Guide

"Is Idol Mini look like on his older" brother "IDOL X?" - you ask. I will answer: "Yes, but not in everything." And then it is not even in the sizes of the case. The manufacturer looked radically in a different way to the "baby", leaving him from the flagship "X" only a similar amount and location of the functional elements. However, some changes were seen in this regard. But about this next!

At first glance at the IDOL mini, my attention attracted the back panel. The manufacturer so successfully applied plastic in it, simulating the metal, which can only be tactile to feel, with which material it is dealing with.

Street Design Smartphone give frontal panel with protective glass, as well as decorated for metal buttons and adjust the volume, slot conversational speaker And the bezel of the head of the main chamber.

That certainly will not remain not seen in the appearance of IDOL MINI, this is its compact size. Due to them, the device looks very neat. Moreover, with such dimensions (127.1x62x7.9 mm, the weight is 96 grams) to control them with their fingers, the hand will be conveniently every one, regardless of the size of the palms.

The body is assembled very well, all elements fit tightly - does not creak anything, does not "crunches" and not letoth.

The smartphone is available in three colors - black, silver, and for representatives of the weaker sex is provided for another pink option.

Ergonomics of functional elements

The right side line is given under the slots for Micro-SIM cards and, and the left on the volume of the volume adjustment.

At the top of the top there is a 3.5 mm audio jack and the power button, and on the lower microphone and the Micro- connector.

The rear panel "divided" among themselves the speaker loud communication In the lower right corner, the inscription "OneTouch" in the center, as well as the eyes of the main 5MP camera at the top.

I will note, as in all previously tested Alcatel smartphones, it protrudes a little over the case. On the right side of it there is a noise reduction microphone, and on the left LED flash.

On the front panel over 4.3-inch display there is a breakdown dynamics slot, eye frontal-Sameraas well as sensors of approximation / lighting. Under the screen while turning on the smartphone and touching it, the touch control buttons are highlighted.

Brief specifications

Communication standard	850/900/1800/1900 MHz; 900/2100 MHz
Gabarits.	127.1x62x7.9 mm
Weight	96 g
Operating system	Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean

Display

4.3-inch IPS Idol MINI screen with a resolution of 480x854 points and color reproduction of 16 million shades, in my opinion, best Solutions Among the smartphones of this price segment.
The high-quality IPS matrix provided large viewing angles both vertically and horizontally. Her merit is also in bright and rich colors pictures playing on the screen. At the same time, in bright sunny weather, without a certain extinction of the displayed data on the display, it is still not to do.

From scratches and other kind of damage it protects safety glasswhat product this is speech, the manufacturer does not specify. In any case, his presence is already a big plus, besides, in practice, it confirmed its value. As, however, the oleophobic coating applied to it is significantly reduced by the number of fingerprints, which could be left with each interaction with the smartphone.

The display brightness can be adjusted both manually and automatically. The sensor recognizes up to 5 simultaneous presses, it is sensitive and responds to touch "smartly".

Equipment performance

"Driving power" IDOL MINI - 2-nuclear mediaTek processor MT6572 S. clock frequency 1.3 GHz and MALI 400 graphics. The amount of RAM - 512 MB.

Works smartphone running operating android systems 4.2.2 "From the box."

According to the results of the benchmarks, he turned out to be quite a decent "middle journal" in terms of performance.

In practice, he did not have problems playing video and not very demanding games. But in the case of the first one will need to get
MicroSD card, since to download the video 4 GB of the claimed internal memoryFrom which only about 2 GB is available to the user, it will be clearly not enough. Maximum volume external drive 32 GB.

But in the Dual-SIM version of the user memory smartphone twice as 8 GB. But it is not possible to expand it. "RAM" as much as in a single model model.

Wireless modules

IDOL MINI "has" wireless communications such as 802.11 b / g / n with access point function, wi-Fi technology Direct, as well as 4.0, with function, VPN.

Autonomy

Capacity of the battery of the smartphone - 1700 mAh. This is what the cost statistics of 100% battery charge says: video playback - 2 hours, listening to audio - 3.5 hours plus 3 hours of surfing on the network.

And this is given the fact that on the test I arrived although well refined, but sample, not a commercial version of the tube.

It is possible to reduce power consumption using the stipulated power saving mode.

Camera

IDOL MINI has two cameras. The main module has a resolution of 5MM, and the frontal is 0.3mp.

Despite the lack of a special button quickly launch Cameras on the smartphone housing, you can activate it quickly quickly from the lock screen.

The quality of the pictures of the displayed front for comfortable communication was quite enough.

The quality of the photo made by the main camera, complemented by autofocus and LED-flash, frankly speaking, delight did not cause. Although in the conditions of good lighting and applying the settings provided for photographing, although they were a little bit, I managed to make enough good frames.

Test photos

Video is written in maximum resolution 720p. In addition to choosing the quality of shooting and turning on / off the flash in recording mode, the camera settings is not provided. With this poor Arsenal, the roller, shot even in the dark, in my opinion, came out worthy for a module for 5MP. Of course, it was not without noise, and also clearly visible how the picture was twitching in the case of autofocus.

Test video

Dynamics

Dynamics Two - conversational and speakerphone.
Communication even in a noisy street near the road provided me with a completely comfortable communication with the interlocutor at the other end of the tube.

Although the smartphone and "mini", but in terms of the power of the speaker speaker, it, as they say, can "give heat", many more devices. It is especially pleasant that even at the maximum volume of volume, it does not make unpleasant ear, extraneous noises.

But its location is difficult to call too successful, but get used to it, so as not to close your hand, quite real.

Good sound reproducible through headphones.

Software

IDOL MINI "FROM BOX" is running the Android 4.2.2 operating system. Software is similar to that previously considered in. Therefore, only visual illustrations.

Unlock screen opens fast access to the camera application, and the phone application.

You can control some functions of the smartphone using gestures. So, for example, to switch the music track, it is enough to shake the device, turn off the sound incoming call, You can turn the device.

conclusions

As a result, I will say that the alcatel smartphone Onetouch Idol Mini as the mini-version of the IDOL X flagship turned out to be very interesting. He is attractive in addition to his compact sizes A pretty design, bright IPS display with good viewing angles, high-quality speakers and good on its cost at 1399 UAH camera capabilities.

I remember the device with good autonomy indicators, and as for its performance, it is not indicative, but at the same time the price tag of the device fully justifies.

pros

Compact sizes
- IPS Display with good viewing angles
- Good speakers
- good performance for your price segment
- Android 4.2.2 "out of the box"
- the ability to control movements
- Not bad autonomy indicators
- adequate price

Minuses

Not quite convenient location of speaker speaker holy

Approximate value:1399 UAH
The product is provided by the TCT Mobile EUROPE S.A.S.
Alena Lazauskas