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if you're in the market for an unlocked GSM phone then you probably want to know about the Alcatel OneTouch Idol I'm Jessica Dahl court for CNET I'm gonna tell you about this phone now this phone sells on Alcatel website for $299 and it runs Android 4.1 jelly bean it's positioned as an entry-level smartphone not because of all of the specs necessarily but mostly because it completely lacks 4G it is a 3G only phone it does have a nice 4.7 inch LCD display it isn't the highest HD quality but it is still pretty comfortable the very slim phone has a brushed metallic finish an 8 megapixel camera on the back with flash will capture 720p HD video and playback 1080p HD video there's also a 2 megapixel camera on the front I was fairly impressed with the camera quality but part of that could also be because I really wasn't expecting much so it surpassed my expectations to keep costs lower there's only 4 gigabytes of internal storage on here and the processing speed is a little bit slow the phone isn't running the pure Google Android experience it does have a small and light Alcatel interface on top but with that comes a few little extras including one gesture that I really like where you can lock the screen by placing your hand in front of it this isn't a bad little unlocked phone however I think you're gonna get more for your money with the LG Nexus 4 so I would really look into that before looking into this one however it's not a bad start for Alcatel in the US I'm Jessica Dahl short for CNET this has been the Alcatel OneTouch Idol you can catch my full review at cnet.com you