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Alcatel has launched a new smartphone series here at Mobile World Congress 2015 I'm Jessica Dahl court for CN n here in Barcelona this is the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 comes in two different sizes the 5.5 inch version which is larger and then the smaller 4.7 inch version now these phones look and feel really nice even though they're plastic they've got sort of a premium aura surrounding them they're very thin light and just look really nice and feel nice in the hand one thing that's really cool about this is that it runs Android 5.0 lollipop but there's an OS layer on top that makes it reversible so you can actually pick up your phone any which way turn it upside down if you've got this enabled and use it of course there is a technical up side and you know that because of the front-facing camera there are dual speakers one on the top and one on the bottom and when you reverse the phone say to answer a phone call the dominant speaker and microphone actually switch each phone has a 13 megapixel camera on the back and flash though the specs are slightly different they are stepped up on this larger version they're a little bit scaled back on the 4.7 inch version so for example you've got an 8 megapixel camera on the front of the big one versus 5 on the smaller one more battery more memory and a higher screen resolution you're also looking at an octa-core processor for the larger phone and a quad-core processor for the smaller one there are a lot more first impressions and details to be had as cnet.com i'm jessica dual-core at taking a first look at all Catullus new flagship OneTouch Idol 3 you