Alcatel 1x Review: Android Go is a large compromise in every sense of the word, including the price

The phones will always be affordable as a compromise, but Google hopes that you can make the devices on the level of entry a a little Best with something new: Android Go. It is the same Android platform that you know and supposed to love it, but it has been improved for the 1GB sub -random access memory environments. In this way, low devices can contain low version of Android, instead of the suffering of the OEM discussion between shoes shoes in the latest version offered terribly, or an older version that will not be filled or filled with features. Alcatel 1x. It is the second Android device that strikes the United States behind ZTE Tempo Go – and the only one you can buy at the present time – at only $ 100. How much do you get $ 100? At one time more and Less than you expect. Alcatel managed to enter the budget space into the future through the TCL-Made 18: 9, fingerprint reader, and Android Oreo (Go Edition)-this is the name in fact, I don’t joked. But the startups are necessarily the necessity of a compromise, the low plate, the mediatek slices, and the 1 GB RAM reflects this.

Specifications

Goodness

Not very good

Where do you buy, what is in the box, accessories, guarantee, and more

Alcatel 1x appears to be exclusive to Amazon in the United States, as it opens for $ 99. There is only one color/SKU available: black. Although Alcatel displayed some other colors in MWC, additional models have not been announced in the United States.

The phone comes with more than you expected for the price. Alcatel could have easily exceeded the including charger and headphones – where there are at least a few who kick these days – but the box included both 5V 1A charger, small USB cable and earphones. Even a screen protector is like pets, although you will have to apply it yourself.

The maximum shipping speed you faced, ~ 5V 1A.

Third -party accessories are likely to be limited. In fact, at the time of writing this report, the only things you can get are more screen protectors and some cases that do not have the name of the paper. I do not expect the choice to be terrible as well.

The phone comes with a standard guarantee for one year, which is considered by aquate through things such as rooting, software changes at the level of the system, water damage, physical abuse, service/unauthorized repairs.

camera

• Exposure is often incorrect. You can slightly dilute it by experimenting with any parts of the scene to focus on it, but it often under/excessive in parts of the image even with this modification. For a good example, see the last three pictures in the exhibition above, all taken in almost the same lighting.

• The level of focus is narrow, the focus on the scene is often wrong unless you click on its correction, and the images are often very soft, even with adequate lighting.

• Low lighting performance is terrible, which is expected.

• Steel is not muddy as I expected on a crop, and I am happy to see such a light touch for this when many of the original equipment manufacturers are heavy.

• The noise is usually present, even with adequate lighting.

• The colors are sometimes silent, but they can come out reasonably accurate – as long as they are not very bright.

In short, if you are ready to sit and include the scene concentration and exposure, you can take a modest picture, although the dynamic and exposure range will never be perfect. For $ 99 He can The result produced the half minute from time to time (if you are patient), but for time -sensitive shots, they are very bad.

The Alcatel 1x camera is serviceable and used, but it is still bad. I think “checks can be deposited” instead of “taking pictures”.

Should you buy one?

If you have to. I will be honest, it’s not a great phone. Performance is not consistent at best and the poor objectively in the worst case, and perhaps thanks to the CRAPPY MediaTec Socog and 1 GB of RAM. Applications will be directed including things like Spotify easily from memory while listening actively to music. that it very Slow, many “Go” apps that were stripped by compensation for limited functions-maps are a major example. If you replace them with unpopular versions full of features, then the performance is worse.

In small ways, the phone is very frustrated in daily use. The insertion of the touch screen is somewhat chasing sometimes, with some ghost touches and resolution issues, as well as frequent problems with stagnation from Haywire Scroll. The landscape/image rotation operator is very sensitive, and the quality of construction is good but it can still be noisy at times.

The corners of the TN board display showed.

The screen is also among the worst what you used. Although it was initially linked as an IPS display, it confirmed with Alcatel that it was a TN board. Outside it at the age of 18: 9, I have no kind to say about it. Watching angles are very limited, with a complete coup for some colors after 40-50 degrees up or down. The brightness is weak (~ 300 nits), and expanding its scope through adaptive preparation is terrible: it is always very bright in the low light or darkness in bright light. The internal repercussions on the screen make it unusable mainly in the open air, the absence of an olic coating in addition to any plate used to tie the glass to the plate makes the screen look permanently dirty.

However, Alcatel 1x is also less than $ 100. I am fond of saying that there is nothing like bad products, just bad prices. This is a very good price (in the United States) for the phone with Android 8.1, LTE and 18: 9 screen and the fingerprint reader. You will not compare the most expensive phones, but if you are on a very narrow budget and want to accept the minimum smartphone functions with some modern features, this fills this place. In the event of an emergency, it will do all the things you expect the Android phone to do, not good or very quickly.

It may not be happy, But you will not be without the tools you need.

Android Go is somewhat decent, even if the skin/ROM has some strange characteristics, such as some lost or stripped functions. There was not much on the Bloatware road, too. However, Alcatel is likely to have gone with more AOSP applications and less of its own things for things like a calculator and phone. Ltd. also means that you have to be careful of the additional applications you try to install, and games are mainly the absence of.

For full thinness on Android Oreo (Go Edition) – this seriously The name, which is happy – monitors our separate review.

I have no doubt that the assembly between an additional $ 20 to $ 20 to $ 50 for something like Moto E 4th Gen or NOKIA is probably low will lead to a better experience. Although it does not seem much, this is 20-50 % prices. As a small part of the cost of this phone, it may not be worth it. The many medium Blu models are cheaper and may have a better performance for the same price, but updates and safety are big Question – even more than aquate.

Each side of the phone except for the program is a large compromise. But on the other hand, as well as the price, and sometimes all you have to spend is $ 100.

Why buy?

• At very reasonable prices.

• Android Oreo (Go Edition) 8.1.

• Modern amenities such as LTE, fingerprint reader, screen 18: 9.

• Good battery life (mostly because you want to use your phone less).

Why not?

• Frankly terrible performance.

• Bad camera.

• The screen will feel at home in 2011.