Gadgetory

Alcatel is launching two new budget phones here at CES 2019 the Alcatel One X and the one C the one X is the more advanced of the two relatively speaking will sell for about $120 globally including in North America the 1c however will sell for about 70 euros and it's not coming to North America it is aimed at markets like the Middle East Latin America in parts of Europe let's start with the Alcatel One X it has a 5.5 inch display with a 720p HD plus screen and it runs Android 8.1 Oreo that isn't the most recent version of Android which is Android 9 high but a phone at this price point can still give you all the Google goodness you need with Oreo note that this is the full version not the lighter Android go version that some phones in this category have the One X is very thin and light with a kind of a no-slip tactile backing that borders on rough it's got a little thin glossy racing stripe on the side Alcatel calls this two-tone but it's really not inside you have a 1.5 gigahertz quad-core MediaTek chipset and 2 gigabytes of RAM you get 16 gigabytes of storage inside which is pretty slim but again this is a budget phone you can also spill over an extra 128 gigabytes onto the microSD card slot or you could use the slides and go dual SIM there's a dual rear camera with 13 megapixel and 2 megapixel lenses and a 5 megapixel front facing camera there's a kind of a cool camera interface and there is portrait mode you may not get the highest quality photos from the One X but you're not gonna miss out on those depth effects shots at least color wise the phone will sell in black and blue now that August l1c on the other hand is much smaller and very plastic feeling even though it has a snazzier design on the backing it's got a thicker profile and has these thick bezels around the screen speaking of the screen you get a 5-inch display with a 960 by 480 resolution that's very low and it does run the Android 8go Edition that we were just talking about there's a five megapixel camera on the back and a two megapixel camera on the front but only one gigabyte of RAM and eight gigabytes of on-board storage expandable storage support tops out at 32 gigabytes this one will come in black and blue but latin-americans will also be able to buy it in blush pink there are no sale dates for any of these phones exactly yet but look for them to start launching in January on low-cost carriers and in retail stores while these two Alcatel phones may not exactly excite you they are positioned to sell for when a low price is your ultimate priority make sure you're checking out all of our coverage from CES 2019