Alcatel One Touch Idol Ultra now available in Asia as the world’s slimmest smartphone
It finally happened. A new device is officially holding the title of the world’s thinnest smartphone. It’s the Alcatel One Touch Idol Ultra with its 6.45 mm slim frame, and now it’s actually become available to buy. Exactly four months after its announcement at CES in January. That said, you only have reason to celebrate [...]
Alcatel One Touch Snap and One Touch Snap LTE officially announced
Oh, snap! Alcatel just won’t stop. Unveiling new smartphones, that is. An onslaught, this is. First, we saw 13 devices announced at CES. Then, a couple of days ago, the wraps were taken off of the One Touch Idol X, the company’s flagship, as well as the low-end 5-inch One Touch Scribe Easy. Today it’s [...]
Mozilla Firefox OS debuts with phones from ZTE (Open), Alcatel (OneTouch Fire). LG and Huawei will follow
Mozilla has officially showcased the first two smartphones to run Firefox OS. As expected, these are made by ZTE and Alcatel. They are both small, low-end devices made for emerging markets. The ZTE smartphone is called ZTE Open. Its features include a 3.5 inch HVGA display, HSDPA, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, GPS, 3.2MP rear camera, 1GHz [...]
5″ 1080p quad-core Alcatel One Touch Idol X announced alongside the low-end 5″ One Touch Scribe Easy
Mobile World Congress is in full swing starting today, and Alcatel (or rather, TCL, the Chinese company behind the brand) simply couldn’t help itself and announced some more new smartphones. This comes after the same company unveiled no less than 13 devices last month at CES. Strictly in terms of announcements, Alcatel is becoming very [...]
Alcatel One Touch Star shows up with midrange specs, midrange price
TCL wants the Alcatel brand to be to smartphones what Archos is to tablets, apparently. That is – signify extremely cheap devices that are, however, decently specced. Or something like that. Of course, the Chinese masters of the Alcatel brand also like to do some showing off, such as at CES when they announced no [...]
Alcatel One Touch Idol Ultra now world’s thinnest smartphone, 12 other Android devices announced too
Alcatel used this year’s CES to announce a myriad of new devices (more than a dozen, believe it or not). These announcements might signify that the brand is looking to get back into the mainstream, after several years of being happy with announcing one or two completely uninspiring smartphones per year. First of all, the [...]
Alcatel’s One Touch View Windows Phone gets an official promo video
The Alcatel One Touch View is being released in Russia, and it just received its first official promo video. Not only is this sanctioned by its maker, it’s to be found on Alcatel’s official YouTube page. The Alcatel One Touch View is the first Windows Phone to bear that brand, and it’s going to run [...]
US Cellular intros Huawei Ascend Y and Alcatel One Touch Shockwave Android phones
US Cellular has recently launched two new and cheap Android smartphones. The first one is the Huawei Ascend Y, which runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and features: a 3.5 inch HVGA display, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, 3.2MP rear camera, 800MHz processor, and MicroSD card support (2GB card pre-installed). The Huawei Ascend Y is available online here at [...]
Alcatel intros One Touch Evo 7 modular tablet with Android 4.0 ICS
Alcatel has announced a new Android tablet that’s certainly weird. Called One Touch Evo 7, the device is presented as a “modular tablet” – because it comes with an optional “3G module” that obviously provides 3G connectivity. Without said module, which is housed in a removable (and colored) frame, the tablet is a Wi-Fi-only device. [...]
Alcatel One Touch View with Windows Phone called TCL Horizon S606 in China
The Alcatel One Touch View that we saw yesterday will not be released just in Europe, as already reported, but also in China. And this certainly makes sense, since TCL – the company that manufactures Alcatel handsets since 2005 – is based there. The smartphone will not be Alcatel-branded in China, though, but TCL S606 [...]
Alcatel One Touch View with Windows Phone 7.8 appears, images and specs now out in the open
Alcatel is going to be the next company to release a Windows Phone. That’s interesting, because so far we haven’t heard about TCL’s involvement with Microsoft’s newest mobile platform (TCL being the Chinese company that sells devices under the Alcatel brand). The first Alcatel Windows Phone will probably be called One Touch View, and it [...]
Alcatel OT-903 lands in the UK in September with 2.8″ touchscreen, will hopefully be dirt cheap
With all the talk about 5.5-inch touchscreens on smartphones (or small tablets, depending on how you look at things), you’d think that 2.8-inch displays were a thing of the past. But no. They’re not relegated to history books about non-touch screens. In fact, if you’re in the UK, you’ll be able to purchase a new [...]
US Cellular launches the Alcatel OneTouch Premiere with Android, QWERTY keyboard
US Cellular has announced the release of its first Alcatel smartphone: the OneTouch Premiere. Resembling Virgin Mobile’s Venture (launched in the US in March), the Alcatel OneTouch Premiere runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and features a full QWERTY keyboard, 2.8 inch QVGA touchscreen display, EV-DO Rev A connectivity, Wi-Fi, GPS, 2MP rear camera, a 2GB memory [...]
Dual-core HD Alcatel OT986 released in China as the TCL S900, priced at just $315
TCL S900 is what the Alcatel OT986 is known as in China. And it’s finally become available to purchase. This smartphone is essentially the same under the hood but comes with two different brands, one for China, the other for the world. The TCL S900 has a dual-core 1.5 GHz TI OMAP processor, a 4.5-inch [...]
Alcatel OT986 gets official with 4.5″ HD screen, 1.5 GHz dual-core CPU, and Android ICS
Alcatel really isn’t a brand known for high-end smartphones. In fact, it isn’t even that well known for making midrange devices. But in a world in which Huawei starts designing its own quad-core processors, certainly everything is possible. So ladies and gentlemen… enter the Alcatel OT986. Or the TCL S900 – that’s the branding that [...]
Alcatel OT-915 with Android and QWERTY keyboard gets leaked on its way to the UK
Alcatel is still trying. Still trying to make a name for itself in the very competitive smartphone world. Last year during MWC, it showcased the OT-990, which only got a limited release a long time after. This year, the company’s back, apparently, and will have a new phone to show us at MWC once again. [...]
Alcatel Ultra 995 with Android Gingerbread showcased at CES 2012
Although it’s presence in the US market is insignificant, Alcatel was at CES 2012, too, and had an interesting Android smartphone to showcase: the Alcatel Ultra 995, also known as Alcatel OneTouch 995. The Ultra 995 runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and features a 4.3 inch WVGA display, Wi-Fi, HSDPA, GPS, 5MP rear camera with flash, [...]
T-Mobile Alcatel Sparq with QWERTY now available for your prepaid needs
Nowdays it’s all about smartphones. It seems inevitable that smartphones will take over the world, and featurephones (also known as dumbphones) will be rendered obsolete in a few years. Yet before that happens, there still are people who are very happy to use (just) a featurephone. People who value the simplicity of these devices, and [...]
Alcatel OneTouch 995 with Android Gingerbread (upgradeable to ICS) coming soon
Alcatel, which usually makes low-cost handsets, is getting ready to launch a relatively high-end Android smartphone soon. Called Alcatel OneTouch 995, the new device has been spotted in the Netherlands and, according to GSM HelpDesk, should be officially introduced at MWC 2012. The 995 looks pretty good, runs Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, and features a 4.3 [...]
Canada: Wind Mobile launches the affordable, Android-powered Alcatel One Touch 908s
If you’re in Canada and Wind Mobile is your carrier of choice, listen up. If you’d like to get an affordable Android-powered smartphone, even better – Wind Mobile now has something for you. The carrier has made the Alcatel One Touch 908s available today. This is an Android smartphone, but not in any way a [...]
