Recording at Full HD and 60 frames per second should have created buttery smooth video, but the phone struggled to do so,
with occasional stutters and clunky lighting changes.
The experience is far from buttery smooth,
with occasional stutters and buffering times over 3G as you'd expect, but if you're patient, it's more than acceptable when used minimally.
Games like Crossy Road performed well, though again
with the occasional stutter or lag.
Not exact matches
There are hiccups though along the way
with touches not registering and more than
occasional lag and
stuttering when traversing the Amazon UI.
At first, I was concerned about how applications would run on the 1.33 - GHz Atom Z3735G CPU
with just 1 GB of RAM and 32 GB of flash storage, and while there were a few
occasional hiccups or
stutters, I was pretty impressed by what this budget 2 - in - 1 could do.
I also noted
stuttering on enemy and allied turns,
with some
occasional performance drops in other areas, too.
Whether playing docked or handheld, Layers of Fear turns in mostly solid frame rates
with only the
occasional stutter now and then.
Generally speaking the strength of the G602's signal was just fine,
with the only noticeable exceptions being the
occasional stutter where the on - screen cursor would momentarily jerk across the screen before regaining its usual smoothness.
Another thing I noticed
with my time spent
with Project Cars 2, was that even though the online racing was certainly a joy to partake in due to the realism on show, there are
occasional times in which the screen would
stutter for a slight second or two before returning back to normal.
Sure, there are the
occasional stutters and hiccups here that even a coating of Butter doesn't completely eliminate, but we've experienced those
with even the top - shelf tablets, like the recent Transformer Pad Infinity TF700
with its 1.7 GHz version of the Tegra 3 processor.
Frame rates hovered around 30 fps in all games,
with occasional dips and brief
stuttering.
There is the
occasional stutter when opening folders in the home screen or opening the multitasking screen, but the latter is a common issue
with devices running Lollipop, so we're hesitant to point the blame on Alcatel.
We were even able to put it through some intense gaming
with titles like Asphalt 8: Airborne, and while it did have the
occasional stutter, it wasn't enough of a problem to affect gameplay.
We did run into a
occasional stutter, but overall we're satisfied
with performance on this phone.