Mobile World Congress has officially begun and the first company to send in its new products is Alcatel. The company’s keynote is where three new interesting devices made their debut – the Alcatel Hero 4, Hero 4S and the Hybrid Plus 10.
The two Hero 4 models will of course be the successor of the OT Hero 3 that we saw last year at MWC. Both phones bear the signature reversible design of the Hero moniker. On top of that, Alcatel has teamed up with JBL to give the Hero 4 phones a boost in audio performance.
Specs-wise, the two Hero 4 phones sport slightly different innards. The base model comes with a Snapdragon 617 chipset with 3GB of RAM and 16GB of expandable storage. It also sports a 13MP+8MP camera combo as well as a 5.2-inch Full HD IPS LTPS display, Cat. 6 LTE, dual-mic noise-cancelling setup and two 3.6W speakers.
On the other hand, the higher end model comes with a slightly bigger 5.5-inch AMOLED panel and sports a more powerful Snapdragon 652 chip and 32GB of expandable storage. Battery has also been upped from 2610mAh from the base Hero 4 to 3000mAh.
Both phones will come with Android 6.0 Marshmallow and will ship with a retail box that transforms into a VR headset much like Google’s cardboard.
Lastly, there’s the 2-in-1 Alcatel Plus 10. As the name suggests, the device sports a 10.1-inch IPS LCD panel with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. The innards is composed of an Intel Atom x5 Z8530 processor clocked at 1.92GHz and comes with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of on-board storage which is expandable up to 64GB using a microSD card.
The tablet also comes with a 5MP+2MP camera combo and a plethora of ports including a full-size USB port, a microUSB and microHDMI ports. The tablet also sports built-in LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and two battery packs – one for the tablet (5830mAh) and one for the keyboard (2580mAh).
By the looks of it, Alcatel is going to market the Plus 10 as a budget tablet probably for consumers or students on a budget.
