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hello I'm the Westway we've seen out here at mobile world congress 2013 taking a look at the Alcatel OneTouch start alright so the Alcatel OneTouch start is a very compact phone as you can see it feels quite luxurious actually especially for a phone that's going to be reasonably cheap along the bottom here there are these touch sensitive keys most of the time they dimmed out so you can't see them but when you need them you just tap away on the bottom and they pop up the screen is a 4 inch AMOLED display it's got a 480 X 800 pixel resolution but that a mole a technology means that this screen is just so bright and actually nearly hurts my eyes looking at it it's very very rare to see a phone that is going to be a bit cheaper a bit lower end with a display that really is this blinding so that's quite impressive it's got a 1 gigahertz dual-core processor that's not the most powerful chip out there on paper but it feels pretty slick to swipe around you can see it's moving with a real snap so I'm not too worried about sluggish performance if I spin it around on the back it's got a 5 megapixel camera and if you want to know where the design inspiration came from this phone and then just put it next to the iPhone because it's almost exactly the same size and shape another piece of good news is that this phone is going to come with Android 4.2 jelly bean at launch which is currently the latest version of Google's mobile operating system again with a phone that's a little bit lower end that's an unusual luxury so I have to say my first impressions of the One Touch start are pretty positive this is a compact phone it feels quite sturdy build quality seems really high and that really bright screen is a definite plus point it's going to be coming out at the end of februari starting in Western Europe unfortunately though there's no word on a US release date yet I'm the West rages unit and this is the Alcatel OneTouch star you