alcatel onetouch hero 2 – TWFLD https://twfld.com The home of independent tech and motoring news and reviews in South Africa Fri, 05 Sep 2014 07:43:23 +0000 en-ZA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 254850515 Alcatel OneTouch playlists AVICII as global brand ambassador https://twfld.com/alcatel-onetouch-playlists-avicii-global-brand-ambassador/ https://twfld.com/alcatel-onetouch-playlists-avicii-global-brand-ambassador/#respond Fri, 05 Sep 2014 07:43:23 +0000 http://savibeza.co.za/?p=3947 We guess EDM phenom AVICII has decided to permanently retire his ties with other tech brands and move on to greener pastures. Alcatel OneTouch has announced that they’ve picked up EDM DJ. AVICII, real name Tim Bergling as its “first global brand ambassador” with the intention of bringing awareness to the brand using a superstar DJ in a genre that transcends nationality perhaps more than any other. He’ll be more than just a sick (read; dope) producer with the OneTouch Hero 2 in his hand, too — He’ll apparently be working with the company’s design peeps to cobble together some to-be-named products and accessories starting with a Alcatel OneTouch #WeCreate party during IFA, though the extent of his involvement hasn’t been disclosed.

]]> https://twfld.com/alcatel-onetouch-playlists-avicii-global-brand-ambassador/feed/ 0 3947 Alcatel OneTouch debuts Phablet, Smartwatch https://twfld.com/alcatel-debuts-phablet-smartwatch/ https://twfld.com/alcatel-debuts-phablet-smartwatch/#respond Thu, 04 Sep 2014 20:33:02 +0000 http://savibeza.co.za/?p=3938 Alcatel’s pen-toting OneTouch Scribe HD and OneTouch Hero now has a larger counterpart: meet the One Touch Hero 2. The 7.9mm thin device has a curved aluminum body, a reasonably light 175 gram weight and a 6-inch, edge-to-edge display. We should probably begin with the display, a 6-inch IPS TFT which has a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080. Naturally, you have to do something with all of that real estate, which is why the Hero 2 comes with a stylus that the company promise will turn the device into a “creative enterprise tool.” Hyperbole aside, the Hero 1 impressed by being able to recognize a badly-scrawled equation at an odd angle, which it converted seamlessly into digital text and solved in mere seconds.

Performance wise, there’s an octa-core 2.0GHz MediaTek MT6592 paired with 2GB RAM hiding inside that aluminum chassis, nestled beside a 3,100mAh battery. Storage-wise, there’s 16GB tucked inside, and, perhaps a little disappointingly, you can only add in a further 32GB with a microSD card. The aluminum body is also reasonably svelte and solid, and you’d certainly not be laughed at if you pulled this out in a room full of Galaxy Note owners. We saw this coming with the OneTouch Alpha. Rounding out the spec list is the usual assortment of 3G/LTE bands, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, GPS, AGPS, Bluetooth 4.0 and NFC that you’d expect from such a device that launches in 2014.

Then there is the Alcatel Smartwatch, which unfortunately does not run Google’s Android Wear. Alcatel’s Smartwatch has a USB charger based in the strap (akin to Nike’s SportWatch+GPS) and an optical heart rate monitor pressed into your skin, the unit offers a choice of watch faces, music control, notifications, camera shutter control and a compass. There’s no word as to when this magical device will head to retail, as yet.

According to Engadget, the company quietly began shipping the device yesterday, and it’ll set you back €350 in Europe. Info on local pricing and availability had not been announced at time this was published.

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