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Alcatel is looking to bring a great experience at an even better price point but let's now find out what it's all about because it's Josh regard from Android Authority what's going on everybody and it's time to unbox and give my first impressions on the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 and here we are with the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 one of the main reasons why I wanted to do this unboxing is because well look at the box there's even this little slider right here slide to unlock and sure enough this phone is coming unlocked one of the main aspects of this phone the fact that it comes at a very good price point for an unlocked device open up the panel down here and it folds right up and the word unlock looks like is everywhere unlock unexpected unlock bright open this up over here oh and the fact that it comes with a 5.5 inch full HD display so we are working with a 5.5 inch version of this unlock loud means that you have a dual front facing speaker set up by JBL audio and unlock moments no panel up there down here it says 13 megapixel camera with a Sony sensor all great specifications that should be coming in a what could be considered a mid-range device but we will see if that is the case in our full review live unlocked we have the phone right here on the side and all of the accessories over here including the sim tool right here the micro USB adapter wall adapter some headphones right here which let's take a look at those right now so if they're going to be touting the audio capabilities of this particular phone you want to see what kind of headphones that comes with now these look like in your monitors comes with a little remote on there including a microphone and these headphones sure enough are by JBL which is a great a great addition to have especially in terms of audio on a smart phone JBL do some great stuff so there go the parts right there there you go and we have the microUSB a board right there and even a little USB that says alcatel one touch right on it now we have the actual phone itself bring that up and there it is 5.5 inches is the size that we're working with on the OneTouch Idol 3 and it already feels pretty nice pretty light actually and it has sort of a look that mimics what kind of reminds me of a Galaxy Nexus to be honest maybe even the Nexus 4 that came after it so it looks like a bigger Nexus 4 but with some nice styling on the back with this brushed look and we'll go ahead and remove the plastics and get going with this particular device as we take a look around the device like I said it is pretty light especially for a 5.5 inch phone and we have the nice shiny frame going around and even on the top and bottom lip portions of the phone where the front-facing speakers are housed do you have them right down here in these particular areas like that sits pretty nicely in the hand already and the button layout I should say is mirrored from ones that you might be accustomed to so more left-handed oriented for example the power button is right up here but if we come on over to the back of course the 13 megapixel optics are right there on the top and we have it this brushed look right here that looks quite nice I have to say idle right here and I'll go to one touch right on the bottom if you look at the bottom real quick the micro USB charging port is over on to the side and you can see that there's almost this sandwich look right here with the nice shiny frame being centered on to a black frame in between and there we go set up and ready to go I am going to throw my sim card in here and just looking through the interface right now it looks like we have a lollipop style build and a lot of the icons are already set up on the main home screens this is one of the animations that Alcatel puts into their version of lollipop at folding animation now I will tell you one thing when we were at MWC and we got our first look at this phone it looked like there was a tiny bit of stutter in that particular animation there but it doesn't look like that's really the case right now obviously we're going to see what happens when I get all of my applications on here and start taking up some of the space underneath and just kind of going around things look pretty nice so far we have no recent screens just dip I'll go ahead and open up a couple of applications things look to be pretty speedy thus far definitely not too many hiccups if any at all bringing down the notification drop-down we have all of the settings here very lollipop s and we're going to go ahead and just confirm that real quick as I continue to show you how this phone seems to perform Android 5.0 point 2 indeed there you go yeah and things are looking good so far I'm going to be putting all of my applications on here but nonetheless it still looks like a very nice piece of kit very good stylings all around and well really I'm excited to kind of put this through its paces to find a phone that brings a great and reliable experience especially if we were to consider the camera experience which we will do in the full review having it at a price point that is this accessible is probably going to be its main selling point not to mention the fact that you have the dual front-facing speakers at a price like that and one of the interesting developments on this phone is the fact that you can actually flip it over if you wanted to take calls a certain way as well I know that we can turn on the screen rotation and that will be fine so let's go ahead and do auto rotate and turn on the reversible there you go and there's a little bit of a notification a bit of a dialog there about reverse calling if I were to turn it over it's going to oh that was a nice animation bring it around to the other side so no matter what orientation you pick this thing up there's a symmetry to this phone that makes it easy to use no matter which way you're looking at it and the fact that the speaker is on both the top and bottom configuration you're going to be able to take calls one way or the others bring it over and take a look at that animation again that is pretty nice so that is just the first impression on the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 I have to say I like what I see so far in the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 Sochi with that brush design on the bag has a very nice profile and the metallic look all around the frame it does look really nice and it's a lot lighter than you would expect a 5.5 inch device to be this is like a Nexus 4 blown up a little bit if you want to make some comparisons there but with dual front-facing speakers that DJ app if you remember from MWC we saw that there was a DJ app that would take streaming music services or local music and give you a way of mixing them together to have a little bit of fun that's definitely something we're going to test out and of course the 13 megapixel camera on the back but still I have to say one really nice touch that they made here was the fact that if you were to turn the phone around it would have that nice animation right there I actually kind of liked that a lot and right now it's upside down and if I got a call I could actually use the phone no matter which orientation it would be in make sure you keep it tuned to Android 34 all of the best coverage and make sure you keep it tuned here for even more on the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 stay tuned for even more there are a lot of events coming up over the next couple of months so drop us some likes or video subscribe to our channel if you haven't already listened to the FDP where P stands for podcast and remember that Android Authority comm is your source for all things Android