Alcatel’s 2014 flagship, the One Touch Idol X+, is here. Here’s our on-the-spot unboxing.
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The Idol X+ has 5″ IPS display with a dense pixel per inch count – 441 – allowing for vivid colors and sharp images for all your photos and videos.
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Here’s the run down.
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While no one’s looking, let’s pull the Idol X+ out of its packaging.
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These sound wonderful.
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The translucency on the pull down notification panel looks cool.
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Sold separately for P1,900.00, the Smart Boom Band acts as fitness and sleep tracker plus phone unlocker and anti-theft device (it sounds off when the Alcatel phone paired with it is beyond a certain distance).
Against the crop of P15k-ish octa-cores on the market, the Alcatel One Touch Idol X+ does a few things up its sleeve:
- a slim, thin, solid, and round-cornered physique that’s easy on your eyes and comfy in your hand;
- an octa core set up that clocks slightly higher than competing octa core phones, such as the Gionee Elife S5.5, so that browsing and multi-tasking are noticeably snappier, and battery life enough to get you through the work day;
- that God-wonderful-sounding JBL earphones that comes with – it’s worth around P4k (if I’m not mistaken) and can go toe-to-toe with the Quad Beats earphones that come with the LG G2 and G3;
- works seamlessly with a sold-separately fitness and sleep tracker Alcatel Smart Boom Band (P1,900.00) which also acts as phone unlocker and phone anti-theft device.
That said, the Alcatel Idol X+ does not have:
- expandable storage, so if you install a lot of games and take lots of pictures and videos, that 12 GB user-available space runs out fast (you’ll need something like this, to augment the storage);
- LTE, but then even in some LTE spots we get only 3G, so you might not miss this;
- Android Kitkat, because you don’t want to worry about your phone’s not having the latest version of Android;
- a wide-angle front camera lens, which can take in more people when taking selfies (in this department, the Huawei Ascend P7 and Gionee Elife S5.5‘s 8MP front cam have a slight edge).
On balance, the Alcatel Idol X+, specs-wise, is not a poor performer.
And here’s the midrange spec’d Alcatel One Touch Idol Alpha.
Its sleek profile blends a metallic design and “translucent” edges and all of this in a curved physique that’s is just way cool.
Here’s a solo of that tin can case the Idol Alpha comes in, because I couldn’t resist.
I’d love for my sleek phone to come in a can. But then the “unboxing” review wouldn’t be called that. Uncanning?
And finally, here’s what the P 1,900.00 Alcatel Smart BoomBand can do.
