Alcatel Idol 2 Mini

Overview Alcatel Idol 2 Mini

Important update: this model is updated to Android version 4.4 KitKat.
Check the availability of the update version in your region on the manufacturer’s website.

Android version and market relevance

The company Alcatel in February 2014 officially announced its new smartphone Alcatel Idol 2 Mini in the series of mobile devices Idol.

“Out of the box” on the new smartphone installed Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, which is updated to version 4.4 KitKat. And besides, it is important to note immediately that the model Alcatel Idol 2 Mini supports two SIM cards (view all smartphones with 2 sim cards in the catalog).

Screen, body and battery

The screen Alcatel Idol 2 Mini is made using the IPS LCD technology and has a diagonal 4.5 inches. Such a medium-sized main touch screen certainly affects the dimensions of the case, which has a thickness of 7.9 mm. Also inside the case is a battery with a capacity of 1 700 mAh.

Main camera and selfie camera

Smartphone Alcatel Idol 2 Mini got ordinary main camera on 8 MP and the frontcamera on 0.3 MP. If you judge only by the number of megapixels, then the main camera is very weak. But the frontcamera not very good, we have in our catalog real selfie smartphones.

Processor and Internal Memory

A smartphone that always works fast, smoothly and does not overheat is a smartphone-dream! You can see how fast our Alcatel Idol 2 Mini works in video reviews, and now let′s talk briefly about the characteristics of the processor and memory. This model received 4-core processor. The amount of RAM is 1 GB.

The built-in memory on which you will store photos, videos, music and all your data, has a volume of 4 GB.But there are versions with more memory on 8 GB. In addition, the smartphone supports memory cards microSD up to 32 GB.

Price for Alcatel Idol 2 Mini: buy or not to buy?

The smartphone Alcatel Idol 2 Mini got into our price segment “Affordable smartphones from $100 to $200” and began to be sold in Q2 2014 at a price of $160. Evaluation of the characteristics, probably, you have already folded, and if not, here is our result. Alcatel Idol 2 Mini is a fast smartphone with a convenient screen size and a conventional main camera, and the front camera did not turn out super cool. And to all this we add that the battery, unfortunately, is weak here.

Is it worth buying now this model of the smartphone, we are talking about our status “Droid-or-Junk”. Of course, at the beginning of sales, almost every smartphone becomes a Droid, and we advise buying such models. But over time, the situation is changing, no one updates the Android version in the smartphone, and in six months or a year this smartphone can already become a Junk. In this case, we advise you to go to the DROID smartphones page in our catalog, where we always show the most current models on sale for today. There are variants from different price segments, so you will have plenty to choose from.