Sleek, Smooth, Mid Level Phone. That sentence sums up the Alcatel OneTouch Idol X+. But what is a “mid level phone”. Let’s say you are in the market for a new cell phone and you don’t have an extra $200 to drop on a Samsung S5 with a 2 year term. Perhaps your parents have decided to join the true “smart phone” world and don’t want to keep using that flip phone but their request is “I don’t want to pay for anything fancy”… What do you do? Stay with that outdated Razr? No Folks! There is no need to wait any longer to upgrade. Enter the Alcatel OneTouch Idol X+. Alcatel provided me a phone to play around and review for you. You may not have heard of Alcatel phones, but they have been around since 2004, when Alcatel-Lucent did a joint venture with TCL Communication, a chinese based electronics company. They have put out many phones since that time period. The Alcatel OneTouch Idol X+ is an impressive mid level phone, competing with the features of the big phone brands at a fraction of the cost. The phone has Android 4.4 Kitkat on it and boasts true Octa-Core Power. That’s 8 processors running simultaneously that allows you to multi-task and in fact is slightly overkill since it would require you to do video processing in order to need 8 processors running at the same time. More power than you could ever use. It also has Edge to Edge full HD 1080p IPS screen that …
Sleek, Smooth, Mid Level Phone. That sentence sums up the Alcatel OneTouch Idol X+. But what is a “mid level phone”. Let’s say you are in the market for a new cell phone and you don’t have an extra $200 to drop on a Samsung S5 with a 2 year term. Perhaps your parents have decided to join the true “smart phone” world and don’t want to keep using that flip phone but their request is “I don’t want to pay for anything fancy”… What do you do? Stay with that outdated Razr? No Folks! There is no need to wait any longer to upgrade. Enter the Alcatel OneTouch Idol X+. Alcatel provided me a phone to play around and review for you. You may not have heard of Alcatel phones, but they have been around since 2004, when Alcatel-Lucent did a joint venture with TCL Communication, a chinese based electronics company. They have put out many phones since that time period. The Alcatel OneTouch Idol X+ is an impressive mid level phone, competing with the features of the big phone brands at a fraction of the cost. The phone has Android 4.4 Kitkat on it and boasts true Octa-Core Power. That’s 8 processors running simultaneously that allows you to multi-task and in fact is slightly overkill since it would require you to do video processing in order to need 8 processors running at the same time. More power than you could ever use. It also has Edge to Edge full HD 1080p IPS screen that …