A $99 Phone that’s ACTUALLY usable :P - Alcatel 1X By Linus Tech Tips

The most expensive iPhone you can get is the 512 gigabyte version of the 10s max coming in at 1449 US dollars, which, when you throw an Apple Care and a headphone adapter, is about 40% more than the global median monthly income per person? So what if you don't want to spend a tenth of your annual salary on a smartphone without giving up modern smartphone features and security? Well, now you can have your Oreo and eat it too, with the Alcatel One X Android go Edition a $99 smartphone with a fingerprint reader. The legato stream deck mini features six fully customizable LCD keys to use, as shortcuts plus easy to use software to set them up check it out on Amazon or New egg at the link in the video description. Okay, so follow along with me here. Alcatel is a French smartphone brand owned by Nokia from Finland and licensed by Chinese manufacturer TCL, who you might remember from why the slippery friendly content is everyone buying this TV video? No doubt this is a very cosmopolitan phone with no less than seven localized variants. Now the version available in the US, the one that we've got here, is the 50 59, a with one gigabyte of RAM 16 gigs of micros expandable storage, a MediaTek 6739, quad-core processor and 8, and 5 megapixels, flash equipped cameras on the rear and front of the phone respectively. It also has a fingerprint reader, as I alluded to before a feature that is notably absent, though, from the and T variants of the phone that are being marketed in India.

On the plus side, the Indian devices do have dual SIM and you can still unlock the phone with your face, regardless of which model you get, though. The One X has a 2460 William hour battery a 5.3 inch 18 by 9 aspect ratio 480 by 960 display, which, in landscape mode amounts to something kind of like widescreen 480p, like to the point where you can actually see a staircase effect on round buttons or profile pictures, meaning that the display of this thing is not cutting edge. But it's 99 bucks, which apparently is enough to get you a headphone jack at the very least. Go figure courage. Interestingly, the One X is very similar in size and weight to Google's pixel 3, except that it has a knurled, lock button microUSB, instead of type C and a textured backing that Alcatel calls suede.

But to me kind of feels more like sandstone or textured plastic, actually kind of reminds me of the white 1 + 5 t, but it doesn't feel as durable. But just because the One X has budget Hardware doesn't mean that the experience of using it is 100% junk, because this was the first phone to launch in the U. S. equipped with Android Go. The OS experience designed for devices with a gig of ram or less and what's cool is that it is surely a full-featured version of Android sort of notable exclusions are high performance features like split screen and daydream, VR and I get why those weren't feasible and some others that caught us a little off guard, Android, auto and Android.

Wear remember. These are Google's own products are not only not supported to the point where they are hidden from the Play Store, but when you even go as far as to side load them, you're going to be greeted with a Google Play Services error. Then, when you go ahead and side load that you'll be greeted with a successful installation message followed by them not working anyway. So James's theory here is that there is a technical reason for these to be excluded to maintain usable performance and to extend battery life while keeping the device affordable. Something has got to give as for me, I think, there's an element of that, but in the case of something like where, why go out of your way to lock it out, I think it might be a product segmentation thing where Google is assuming that, if you can afford a Smartwatch or a car for that matter, you can probably afford a better phone.

One thing that we agree about is that these features are more like creature comforts rather than core products. So let's move on and talk about the differences. Their Android goes main differentiator is the lighter load out of default. Apps Google has made these lightweight versions of their apps, including search Gmail, G, board YouTube, and even the Google Assistant that last one is a big plus because some other budget devices that are more than twice as expensive as this one we're on older versions of Android that don't support, Google Assistant at all and what's really cool, is that, while some go apps like Gmail Go feel nearly identical to their full-featured cousins. That's already a good thing.

Some of them actually add new features. YouTube go, for example, doesn't allow uploading or even commenting on videos which sort of bites, but it shows you how much data is required to watch a video it offers previews. So you don't waste your data on a video that wasn't what you were looking for, and it even lets you download videos to your device a feature: that's usually only available to YouTube premium members. Unfortunately, just because you have an Android go device doesn't mean every go. App will be available.

Our 1x actually came with the regular YouTube app installed because, while it's available in a hundred and thirty low connectivity countries YouTube go is not widely available in the global north and when we tried to side load it, we were greeted with a message stating that our device was incompatible bummer. Another interesting one is Google Maps go which at just 32 kilobytes, is almost an order of magnitude smaller than the regular app, and that is partly because it's not actually an app it's one of Google's progressive web apps, so the icon on your home screen is really just a link to a website. It looks feels and quacks like an app, but unfortunately, while it can give you directions, it cannot do turn-by-turn navigation. So should you buy this phone? Well, that depends. On the one hand, it's a $99 budget phone that feels pretty good in the hand, comes with a charger screen protector and headphones in the box records 30fps, Full, HD, video and runs aka tells Joy launcher skin, which is pretty close to stock Android.

On the other hand, it's a $99 budget phone. It is so slow in spite of its optimized software. It has only one speaker right here, making it not great for watching movies, and it has a TN panel screen with a massive air gap and off-brand glass that make it a fingerprint and glare magnet, oh yeah, and that micro V connector kind of sucks too, but budget devices are all about compromise. And the good thing we can say about this one is that it is a heck of a lot better than users, not having access to these services at all or being forced to settle for old software that doesn't have the latest security updates. So it's a big step forward.

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