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Alcatel's Idol X+ spins on 8 cores

2014-01-06
hey everyone I'm Jessica doll court for CNN here at CES 2014 in Las Vegas this is our first look at the alcatel one touch idol x+ this is a new phone that updates the one touch idol x device it's about the same size phone 5-inch 1080p HD screen what's different about this one is what's inside there is a 2 gigahertz octa core MediaTek processor as for the other specs you've got android 4.2 jelly bean running the show but it will be upgradable to android 4.4 kitkat on the front you've got a 2 megapixel camera that is capable of capturing 1080p HD video and on the back you have a 13.1 megapixel camera with flash this device here is dual SIM you press pretty hard on the sides to open up the sim card slots but then after that it is very easy to close in addition to upgrading the processor alcatel has also done a lot of work with internal sound you've got dual speakers here and in our demo the phone did sound very loud as for the look and feel this one will come in three different colors there's this black version there will also be white and a sort of silver version fun feels pretty good my hands alcatel is known for pretty nice design for a very low price point we can expect to see this sort of in the three hundred dollar range i'm guessing off-contract one thing to note is that there is no LTE it is hspa+ compatible this phone is already available in China you can expect to see it coming to other markets worldwide in February look for it in the US in late 2014 4 cnet I'm Jessica doll court you can catch all of our CES news at cnet com you
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