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Best Mobile Phones for Under 15 Pounds Per Month

There are also options for video calls, but make sure your phone comes with a secondary
camera. 

There are also a number of other features and specifications that need to be taken into
consideration before making your final choice. Each of the manufacturers will be developing
models with powerful features competent with each other. The type of operating system used
is also very much important while deciding on a model. 

Browse through various sites on the internet and look for the latest models out in the market.
Read through the specifications in detail and do proper research to find the best suitable one
for your needs. Make sure to compare the price rates of the same model in various online
shops before completing the order. Moreover the reviews and posting on various tech-based
websites will help you to have an overall ranking of the best models in the market. 

In the economic times the world is currently experiencing buying cheap Wi-Fi phones has
become more important than buying the latest version of the device. Money is tight for almost
all people right now. In America and in Europe both the economy has taken several hits and
what money people do have they are safeguarding. We are making choices to save money
wherever possible and buying cheap Wi-Fi phones allows us to have the device we want, but
pay less than the average asking price. 

Buying cheap Wi-Fi phones does not mean that you will be buying devices of poor quality.
The cheap Wi-Fi phones are generally manufactured by the same companies that
manufacture the most expensive of these items. The difference may come in the features the
device offers or in the fact that the device might be an older model. 

Older models of these devices do not mean used devices. You can buy older models from
stores that have never been purchased before. They have simply sat on the shelf until they
have aged to the point that a newer version has been introduced. The older version will work
perfectly and a lot of times the features on the older ones and the features on the newer one
are hard to distinguish between. The newer model may have very slight differences like a
slightly better camera or the ability to take video where the older one could not. Know what
features are most important to you and then shop for a mobile unit that has those features. 

Warehouse stores buy things in bulk quantities. Smaller stores can only purchase a limited
number of items, but the warehouses can buy ten times the number the smaller stores buy.
Because of the quantity that a warehouse store can buy the manufacturer will sell them the
devices at a lower per unit cost. The warehouse store then passes the savings per unit on to
their customers.
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What is the Alcatel One Touch Idol?

You may not be aware of it but Alcatel is one of the biggest phone manufacturers in the world, the 6th biggest in fact. Low-cost feature phones made primarily for the Asian and African market are its bread and butter, but the One Touch range is Alcatel’s attempt to crack the smartphone market. At £200 the Idol is Alcatel’s mid-range offering in the One Touch line-up.

Focusing on design, user experience and value, the One Touch Idol combines an impressive 4.7 inch screen with a dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM in a smart, unibody design. The question is can it really compare to phones in that price bracket made by Samsung, Sony, Nokia, ZTE or HTC?



Alcatel One Touch Idol - DesignFrom a short distance the One Touch belies its £200 price tag. Covered in what looks like brushed metal you'd be forgiven for mistaking it for a much more expensive phone.

In hand you quickly realise and the back is made of hard plastic, but it is decent quality stuff. A ridge that runs around the entire edge of the phone ruins the Idol's good looks a little and makes it look more plasticky than it needs to. On the other hand, it does help make a grippy surface and the Idol remains a handsome phone regardless. The lack of hard edges makes holding it for long periods of time comfortable, despite its size.

The One Touch Idol isn’t a small phone at 133 x 67.5 x 7.9 mm, but it is impressively light, just 109g. It has got the same screen real estate as the Google Nexus 4 or the HTC One, both of which are more expensive and a good 25% heavier.


The metal power button is located at the top of the phone and is firm and springy. Unless your hands are on the small side you shouldn’t have a problem reaching it to turn the screen on or off. The volume rocker is on the right hand side, providing easy access for adjustment and the obligatory three Android touch buttons are at the bottom of the screen.

Turn the phone over and you find the One Touch logo emblazoned on the back. The camera protrudes slightly above it, although not too much to ruin the aesthetics or snag on pockets.

Where the One touch Idol is a little let down is by its SIM and microSD card slots. These are covered by some flimsy plastic flaps. We’d have liked these to be a more robust, but on the plus side you shouldn’t notice too much unless you regularly swap SIM or microSD cards.

Our version was metallic grey with a further five metallic colour options available: pink, dark grey, red, blue and green.

Alcatel One Touch Idol - Screen and Sound Quality
One of our favourite aspects of the One Touch Idol is its screen. The 4.7-inch toughened glass display (Dragon Trail rather than Gorilla Glass in this instance) is streets ahead of most other phones in its price range.

Colours are bright and vivid, if a little oversaturated. It’s bright too, perfectly visible in a sunlit day, not that you’ll be noticing much with the British summer. Video is clear and detailed while text is sharp and crisp, making reading websites or eBooks a pleasure.

The mono speaker is loud enough to watch a movie or listen to music with company; if that’s something you intend to do.

Alcatel One Touch Idol - Performance and StorageWith a dual-core 1GHz CPU, PowerVR SGX 531 GPU and 1GB of RAM the One Touch Idol is zippy rather than super-fast. There was no lag when scrolling through menus or opening apps, which was helped by the fact that Alcatel doesn’t bloat Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with lots of additional software and processes.

In our AnTuTu 3.3 benchmarks it scored a respectable 6,527. What does this mean in real terms? Well performance is generally solid throughout use. Simple games like Candy Crush Saga or basic 3D games like Temple Run 2 run without a hitch. Play more graphically intensive games, however, and you’ll find some lag issues. Real Racing 3, for instance, is playable but stutters when cornering.

The One Touch Idol comes with 4GB of internal storage, enough to keep your most important apps on. This can be expanded to a much healthier 36GB with a 32GB microSD card, enough for most people to store all the music, apps and even video they want to have on the go.


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Smartphone Alcatel One Touch 995 Android posiblemente version 4.0






Alcatel One Touch 995, best known for Android phones that'll give your bank balance a mere glancing blow, is purportedly going big. New Mobile managed to get its hands on the One Touch 995, which will apparently be decked out with a 1.4GHz processor and a gratifying 4.3-inch touchscreen to show off the latest version of Gingerbread. Alcatel has managed to cocoon all this, alongside a five megapixel shooter, into a shell apparently "less than a centimeter thick." What really caught our attention, however, is the apparent promise from the company that Ice Cream Sandwich will be making an appearance on the handset. We're still waiting for the official word from Alcatel, but the phone is expected to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress 2012, with a very tempting €200 ($276) price tag -- a nice price for a large screen Android handset. See more of the One Touch 995 hardware at the source link below.

[Thanks, Martijin]

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