Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (5.5 inches) Review

Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (5.5 inches) is a great cellphone, equipped with an enormous 5.5 inches multi-touch display, an exceptional Octa-Core CPU (formed by a Quad-Core running at 1.5 GHz and a Quad-Core speeding at 1000 megahertz), and two cameras, a 13 mega-pixels back camera and an 8 megapixels front camera. Let's take a deeper look at what this phone can do.

Alcatel equipped the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (5.5 inches) with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM8939 system chip, packing a great Octa-Core processor (they are really a Quad-Core ticking at 1500 megahertz and a Quad-Core ticking at 1 GHz) with a large 2 GB of RAM. Handling graphic rendering, it also counts with a 500 megahertz Adreno 405 graphic processing unit. This phone counts with a huge 32 GB internal storage memory and a slot for an external memory card, allowing the user to store hundreds of applications and even the largest games currently available without having to worry about running out of space at all.

The Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (5.5 inches) is only 6.01 inches long and 2.96" wide, but it still manages to hold a 5.5 inches screen. The Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (5.5 inches) is incredibly thin and stilized, being just 0.29" thick.

This phone has a gorgeous 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) 5.5 inches screen, giving this phone a delightful image quality. Its screen uses IPS LCD capacitive technology, and can detect multi touch gestures.

This cellphone includes WiFi connection (but it can't provide it to other devices as a mobile hotspot), HSPA+ (4G) data connection, that is not so fast as LTE-A or LTE networks and the fastest 3G internet connection, supported by HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This phone uses two Micro SIM cards so it is able to use two different phone numbers at the same time.

The Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (5.5 inches) is equipped with two cameras, a 13 megapixels back side camera and an 8 megapixels front-facing camera. It is also able to capture Full HD 1920x1080 videos at 30 frames per second. To complete the camera, it also has multiple interesting features: flash, fast burst mode, auto-focus, smile detection shooting, face detection shooting, geo tagging and HDR mode.

This cellphone uses an amazing 2910 mAh removable battery that provides the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (5.5 inches) an impressive battery life.

This phone also features a few cool features as Near Field Communication (NFC), Bluetooth (enables communication with other bluetooth cellphones and accessories) and GPS (Global Positioning System), and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

The Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (5.5 inches) is not a very good choice considering it is sold for $ 205, and many similar devices are offerred way cheaper than that. No matter whether you are looking for a social device, will use it as a work device, want a gamer phone or are an amateur photographer, you will definitely love this cellphone.