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hello everybody my name is Gary Sims from Andrew authority while smartphones still remain most popular Android devices there still a demand for tablets and today we're going to be looking at a new tablet from Alcatel OneTouch the hero 8 the design of the hero 8 is really quite nice you have the 8 inch full HD display in case in an aluminium frame on the back you have the 5 megapixel camera and a connector for the magic fillip covers which we'll talk about in a minute on the top you have the headphone socket the IR blaster and a tray for the SD card and for the SIM card moving towards the bottom of the device you'll find two stereo speakers and a micro USB port like the hero 2 the hero 8 has a series of covers available for it known as magic flip covers some of these are just simple covers that protect the screen or fall around to become a stand while some of them are more complicated for example there is a cover that has LEDs built into it and could display the time and various notifications moving on to the specifications device has a 2 gigahertz octa-core processor from media Tech 2 gigabytes of RAM and 16 gigabytes of on-board storage there's also a micro SD card slot which takes cards up to 32 gigabytes there's a 5 megapixel rear facing camera and a 2 megapixel front-facing camera and the unit is powered by a 4060 milliamp hour battery in terms of connectivity you get GPS and of course Wi-Fi Bluetooth and then there's the IR blaster it also has 4G connectivity you can put in a SIM card and you get internet access while you're out and about the device comes with Android 4.4 KitKat and you have full access to the Google Play Store the display on the hero 8 is really quite lovely it is a full HD 8 inch display with a resolution of 1920 by 1200 the colors are bright the display is vibrant and using it is a pleasure in the settings as a special section that allows you to change the color warmth and the saturation which means you can tweak this display to really something as pleasing to your own eye in terms of performance performs really well it's antutu scores are three 9910 and running Epic Citadel the demo app for the Unreal 3d engine the hero 8 manages 51 frames per second on the high quality setting the frames per second on the high performance setting was only marginally different at 50 1.1 frames per second the GPS performance of the hero 8 is excellent and the device is able to get a lock indoors and outdoors without any problems whatsoever one thing that makes the hero 8 different to other Android tablets is the software Alcatel OneTouch have worked really hard to bring something different to the hero 8 but only is there a customized launcher which doesn't seem to slow down or produce any lag whatsoever but the device has a special feature that allows you to run applications in a small window on the device you can launch an application and then minimize it to a window and then you can have another window which would lay on top of that and another window would you lay on top of that and you can move them around similar to what you would do on a PC with Windows or a Mac with OS 10 the only complaint I have about the software on the hero 8 is the soft keys we're all used to having the HOME key in the middle of the menu bar at the bottom of the screen however to make room for two additional keys to do with the windowing I just talked about Alcatel OneTouch have moved the other keys to the right of the screen that actually means the back key is in the very center and the HOME key and the Menu key are further to the right when I first started using the tablet I kept hitting the back key rather than the HOME key however after a few hours of use you get used to the fact that the keys have moved to a slightly different place the hero 8 has a four thousand sixty milliamp hour battery it really could do being just a little bit bigger according to my testing you'll get around three to three and a half hours of 3d intensive gaming or four hours of YouTube watching or four and a half to five hours of watching films stored locally on the internal storage now it's not a smartphone it doesn't need to be ready in your pocket all day long for all day long use it's a tablet and I'm sure you're not going to use it for that many hours during a day however I would have liked one we've just a bit more battery life however for me it isn't a deal-breaker it's okay but it would it be nicer to have something better the camera on the hero 8 is pretty good for a tablet most people recognize you're not going to use a tablet taking snapshots as you go out with your kids in the park but occasionally is useful to have it just in case you need to take a picture somewhere it has a five megapixel rear facing camera and a 2 megapixel front facing camera for me it's always the front-facing camera on a tablet that's most important because that's what I'll be using if I'm doing video chats and other things like that the camera software on the hero 8 is almost the same at the camera software on the hero 2 you get HDR mode panorama sports mode night mode and there's even a built-in QR code scanner over all the camera is easy to use the pictures taken quickly and for a tablet I really wouldn't expect much more you can find some more sample camera shot in the written companion that goes with this video review you'll find the link to it in the video description below I've been using the heroic for a few days now and I must say I'm very impressed and then all the normal things I would do on a tablet Twitter emails web browsing reading ebooks listening to music and I've been really pleased the only thing I would complain about is the battery but that's about it everything else is really really good and there it is the Alcatel OneTouch hero 8 a lovely 8 inch tablet a nice design and excellent screen some great software it could probably do with a bit of a bigger battery but overall a great device my name's Gary Sims thanks for watching you can follow me on Google+ and don't forget to subscribe to and rathore ''tis YouTube channel I'll see you in my next video