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A smart feature phone?
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Parallel development
We have already taken a look at Kaios, the operating system of the face phones in which Google has invested millions of dollars. It is designed to make improvements from the era of smartphone, such as tracking personal devices and VOLTE, and returning to the world (and price point) for distinctive phones. The platform is already a great success in countries like India, but so far, the only Kaios phones that appear in the United States run old OS versions with the application store and other lost features.
the Alcatel Go Flip 3 It is the first full Kaios phone to be officially available in the United States. It runs the latest version of Kaios (V2.5), and comes with Google, YouTube, Google Maps, and other applications and other features that you usually expect to see on a smartphone.
A smart feature phone?
On the surface, GO Go Flip 3 is like every other low phone that is sold in your local carrier store. However, the differences become clear as soon as it begins to use it. Assistant Google, YouTube and Google Maps are displayed prominently on the main home screen, also highlighting the Kaios App Store. Some system features are usually intended for smartphones, such as Wi-Fi. Kaios loves to call its devices “smart feature phones”.
Google Assistant is one of the main points of GO FLIP 3, or stimulating it by choosing it from the home screen or by pressing the center button for a few seconds. This version of the assistant did not change mostly when I tried the last Kaios phone – Although he can open applications, communicate with people, answer basic knowledge questions, it is not possible to log in to the Google account (to control my smart home appliances), set reminders, or run podcasts.
Kaios’s Google Maps have seen some improvements. It is no longer just a link to the mobile web application, as it was before, and it has better support for the mobile buttons. Although there is no transfer in turn, you can easily get directions and find sites around you. There is even an audio search, if you do not want to accurately write the names with the T9 keyboard.
YouTube, annoyingly, is still just a portable web application. You should control an indicator on the screen to scroll via videos and click on the buttons. I don’t think most people do that Want To watch 144p a video on this small screen, but Google can make it a little better.
Other pre -installed applications are what you expect on a feature phone. You can get a web browser (still Firefox, since Kaios depends on Firefox OS), camera, FM radio, email client, music player, audio recorder, etc. A few dozen applications can be found in the Kaios App Store, including Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp.
Parallel development
It is interesting to see Kaios continues to develop alongside Android and iOS, and it is great for the phone that has all the features of the basic system recently in the United States. The distinguished phone market in America is undeniable in the minority (approximately 81 % of all mobile phone owners in the United States use a smartphone), but Alcatel Go Flip 3 is a good upgrade to a person on the Philip.
I have seen a few people suggesting Kaios devices as a good option for kicking smart phone addiction, but you can install Facebook and Twitter with the same ease here as you do on a smartphone, so you are not sure of the effectiveness of the tactics that will be.
Alcatel Go Flip is available today at T-Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile and AT & T – The latter sells it under the name “Alcatel Smartflip”. T-Mobile and Metro charge $ 100 for the phone, which appears to be a lot of money, but AT & T has $ 60. The phone is also supposed to be available in Cricket Wireless, but there is no product page there yet.
He buys: T-Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile, AT & T
