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Connect with friends on this unlocked Alcatel Pop 4 smartphone. Its generous 16GB capacity stores more photos and music, and its quad-core CPU ensures speedy performance. The card slot supports a microSD, and the 8-megapixel camera has autofocus for sharper images. The loudspeaker on this Alcatel Pop 4 smartphone plays your favorite tunes.
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No on-off data toggle switch on my phone
on December 15, 2016
Posted by: NoMarshmallowdatatoggle
I too bought this phone during the Thanksgiving sale. I knew I had to pull the trigger knowing it was going to be sold-out the next day -- which it was. The phone arrived pretty quick but I just opened the box to this phone three and a half days ago because I kept reading the phone turning on and off by itself problems.
I HAVE NOT YET activated this phone with a cellular network -- I have only been wi-fi'ing around the web and learning the Marshmallow operating system. I must admit the only experience I have with a smartphone is with a 4" junker with KITKAT 4.4.4.
I seriously thought about never opening the box to this phone and selling it because I knew a 5.5" screen phone it just too big for me to lug around everyday and purchase myself a 5" phone, but because of the price during the Thanksgiving sale I couldn't pass it up.
As of right now almost four days since opening the box I have had NO "phone turning on-and-off by itself" issues I've read from a few others with this phone except the phone goes into lock-mode after 30-minutes which is the longest time you have in the Marshmallow settings. And I don't know if the phone updated itself to 6.1 when I first turned on the phone (if that's possible) or if the phone already had 6.1 installed because I know I did not update the phone to 6.1 myself.
If you buy this phone you will absolutely want to purchase an anti finger/smudge screen cover. I have yet to take the phone outside to see how hard it will be to view the screen in the sunlight but I pretty-much already know the answer to that from the limited reviews I seen on this phone and the phone's brothers and sisters that are under different model names sold by AT&T, Metro pcs, Cricket, etc -- and as bad as the screen smudges up -- along with a bright sun -- it's going to be very difficult to view that screen.
The phone buzzes around the internet with wi-fi pretty good but keep in mind I'm not a social media junkie, and the only game I play on the internet is chess and you don't need a strong processor for that -- but I've seen numerous Spanish/Youtube reviews of this phone where people have played Asphalt8. But I seriously doubt this phone with a 1.1 gig processor is gong to snap a good pic running multiple apps and playing Asphalt8 all at the same time.
And no, I haven't taken a picture with this phone yet, but having a 5mp camera on my current junker which surprisingly takes decent pic's, I'm pretty familiar with cheap Chinese phone cameras -- it's all about lighting and not running a bunch of apps at the same time while taking a pic so the camera doesn't have to struggle increasing your chances of moving your arm while the camera finally processes the pic increasing your chances of producing a blurry pic.
The only complaint I have about this phone, and it's not the phone's fault it's Marshmallow's fault -- my Pop 4+ does NOT have an internet/data on-off toggle switch anywhere -- NOT in the little pull down menu, nor in settings. I'm assuming that I'll get one when I receive the network carrier's bloatware when I do choose a cell-phone carrier. And I do not like that. I do not like having a cell phone carrier's data on/off switch IF I even am given one. I want my own data on-off switch that I trust. This is a big issue for my because I am not gong to get an unlimited phone minutes and data plan. i do not use a cell phone much especially for surfing the web except when I'm waiting for someone so I had in mind to use Tracfone's roll-over minutes/data plan to avoid paying $50 bucks a month for a plan I won't half use. And I absolutely don't trust Tracfone with my data count, so I definitely want my own built-in data on-off toggle switch.
If I did recommend this phone to a friend I'd definitely tell him/her there is no data on-off switch in Marshmallow 6.1 with my Pop 4 Plus phone.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Connect with friends on this unlocked Alcatel Pop 4 smartphone. Its generous 16GB capacity stores more photos and music, and its quad-core CPU ensures speedy performance. The card slot supports a microSD, and the 8-megapixel camera has autofocus for sharper images. The loudspeaker on this Alcatel Pop 4 smartphone plays your favorite tunes.
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4 out of 5No on-off data toggle switch on my phone
By NoMarshmallowdatatoggle
I too bought this phone during the Thanksgiving sale. I knew I had to pull the trigger knowing it was going to be sold-out the next day -- which it was. The phone arrived pretty quick but I just opened the box to this phone three and a half days ago because I kept reading the phone turning on and off by itself problems.
I HAVE NOT YET activated this phone with a cellular network -- I have only been wi-fi'ing around the web and learning the Marshmallow operating system. I must admit the only experience I have with a smartphone is with a 4" junker with KITKAT 4.4.4.
I seriously thought about never opening the box to this phone and selling it because I knew a 5.5" screen phone it just too big for me to lug around everyday and purchase myself a 5" phone, but because of the price during the Thanksgiving sale I couldn't pass it up.
As of right now almost four days since opening the box I have had NO "phone turning on-and-off by itself" issues I've read from a few others with this phone except the phone goes into lock-mode after 30-minutes which is the longest time you have in the Marshmallow settings. And I don't know if the phone updated itself to 6.1 when I first turned on the phone (if that's possible) or if the phone already had 6.1 installed because I know I did not update the phone to 6.1 myself.
If you buy this phone you will absolutely want to purchase an anti finger/smudge screen cover. I have yet to take the phone outside to see how hard it will be to view the screen in the sunlight but I pretty-much already know the answer to that from the limited reviews I seen on this phone and the phone's brothers and sisters that are under different model names sold by AT&T, Metro pcs, Cricket, etc -- and as bad as the screen smudges up -- along with a bright sun -- it's going to be very difficult to view that screen.
The phone buzzes around the internet with wi-fi pretty good but keep in mind I'm not a social media junkie, and the only game I play on the internet is chess and you don't need a strong processor for that -- but I've seen numerous Spanish/Youtube reviews of this phone where people have played Asphalt8. But I seriously doubt this phone with a 1.1 gig processor is gong to snap a good pic running multiple apps and playing Asphalt8 all at the same time.
And no, I haven't taken a picture with this phone yet, but having a 5mp camera on my current junker which surprisingly takes decent pic's, I'm pretty familiar with cheap Chinese phone cameras -- it's all about lighting and not running a bunch of apps at the same time while taking a pic so the camera doesn't have to struggle increasing your chances of moving your arm while the camera finally processes the pic increasing your chances of producing a blurry pic.
The only complaint I have about this phone, and it's not the phone's fault it's Marshmallow's fault -- my Pop 4+ does NOT have an internet/data on-off toggle switch anywhere -- NOT in the little pull down menu, nor in settings. I'm assuming that I'll get one when I receive the network carrier's bloatware when I do choose a cell-phone carrier. And I do not like that. I do not like having a cell phone carrier's data on/off switch IF I even am given one. I want my own data on-off switch that I trust. This is a big issue for my because I am not gong to get an unlimited phone minutes and data plan. i do not use a cell phone much especially for surfing the web except when I'm waiting for someone so I had in mind to use Tracfone's roll-over minutes/data plan to avoid paying $50 bucks a month for a plan I won't half use. And I absolutely don't trust Tracfone with my data count, so I definitely want my own built-in data on-off toggle switch.
If I did recommend this phone to a friend I'd definitely tell him/her there is no data on-off switch in Marshmallow 6.1 with my Pop 4 Plus phone.
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January 10, 2017
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