Alcatel might not be up there in the list of the top mobilephone manufacturers out there and the company doesn’t seem to have any intention to be counted as a major force in the industry. However, for some reason, they do manufacture mobile phones that do reasonably well – and this time around, they seems to have done a decent job at it. On the eve of the ongoing CES at Las Vegas, they have come up with a bunch of new One Touch branded mobile devices. And one of them actually stakes the claim of being the worlds thinnest smartphone. Things just got interesting didn’t it?
The new handsets that the company announced are the One Touch Idol Ultra, the One Touch Idol and the One Touch Scribe HD. Lets take a closer look at either of these handsets now.
The One Touch Idol Ultra
The One Touch Idol Ultra is not just any other smartphone. At just 6.45 mm, the phone is claimed to be the thinnest smartphone ever. Under that svelte frame houses a 1.2 Ghz Dual Core processor and a fairly large capacity battery. It features a large 4.7 -inch, HD, AMOLED display. It also gets an 8 megapixel camera and the ability to shoot videos in full HD. The phone also runs Android’s latest and greatest version – the butter-smooth version 4.2 JellyBean.
One Touch Idol
This one belongs to the same category as the Idol Ultra – bust adds some flab thanks to the addition of a few things – like a front camera. That said, the Idol is still claimed to be the lightest phone in its category – tipping the scales at 110 grams. Like its thinner brother, the One Touch Idol also features a 4.7″ IPS display, 8MP camera and runs Android Jelly Bean
One Touch Scribe HD
The One Touch Scribe HD is the first smartphone to house the recently released MediaTek MT6589 quad-core chipset. The device claims to “providing faster Internet performance, smoother user-experience to simultaneously run power-hungry apps & games, along with premium multimedia & graphics capabilities.” The device features a 5 inch IPS display and supports 4G LTE networks. It sports an 8MP camera at the rear plus a 720p HD capable front camera. The phone runs Android Jelly Bean.
Alcatel hasn’t announced as to when these three devices would be made available for us mere mortals – but added that this is just a glimpse of their 2013 line-up.
