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we've spent some time with the folks over at TCL looking at some new Alcatel phones a great new paint job for the BlackBerry q2 and their attempt at the foldable concept that honestly is really exciting you're gonna want to stick around to see what they call the Dragon hinge this is PocketNow and I'm Joshua Vergara what's going on everybody let's talk TCO as is usually the case for Alcatel every year they have a bunch of different devices being announced all at once over the years I could tell has done a great job of bringing their higher-end experiences to the lower tier price points starting off with the most affordable is the Alcatel 1s an Android pipes holding dual and shooting full view HD Plus display smartphone that screen comes in at 5.5 inches with 2.5 D glass and has a nice textured metal backing those lenses on the rear include a 2 megapixel depth sensor that helps with good bouquet in portrait shots the 1s also sports an octa-core processor that is being developed by a company called spread shrimp and features 3 gigabytes of RAM and 32 gigabytes of storage expandable with SD cards what raised my eyebrows about this phone is the price a hundred and ninety euros even though availability outside of this region has yet to be determined then we move to the higher end with the 3-series the Alcatel 3 uses Snapdragon processors in this case the octa-core Snapdragon 439 wild a slightly lower SPECT Alcatel 3 L sports the quad-core 429 with the tear drop notch the 3 manages to pack an 80% screens body ratio and what they called a super full view display at 1560 by 720 resolution the higher-end Alcatel 3 will have 4 gigabytes of RAM and 64 gigabytes of on-board storage also bear in mind that some versions do have a fingerprint reader while others omitted from that textured backing and finally the rear cameras are 13 and 5 megapixels respectively with the 5 megapixel sensor helping with depth in those bouquet shots all of these Alcatel phones will be upgradeable to PI shortly after the launch and from there we move to a simple but significant shift for the BlackBerry key to this limited edition red version adds a splash of really vivid red on the metal chassis giving it a really eye-catching flair now while I would have preferred blackberry go all in on the red coloring I do understand that the black like backing is their signature aside from the splash of color the phone also bolsters the storage of the phone with all the other specifications remaining the same the red Edition has six gigabytes of RAM and 128 gigabytes of on-board storage as you know I'm a big fan of that keyboard experience and now this phone is not afraid to show off some of its colors and finally let's get to the dragon hamish the foldable concept by TCL that was under glass at our presentation dragon hinge is named so because it slightly resembles scales and there is a bunch of bits and pieces working on the inside to make that fault work but what makes this concept so exciting is how TCL has applied it to so many potential use cases there are sites aside folds like we've seen in a couple of other concepts already along with a vertical fold that could bring back the clamshells of old and then a large concept drawing showed more applications of the same design in products that we definitely want to see in the future one in particular that I personally have always said when it comes to smartwatches is that they should be slab bands you know those wrist bands that just slap on like this well this is something that dragon hinge could actually provide in the smart wearable category obviously there would be a flexible screen on them and that would just make wearables that much easier to use and honestly more fun TCO does say not to expect the dragon hinge to hit markets until 2020 in an effort to see how certain aspects of current releases fare in the real world perhaps they'll find a way to create the affordable foldable category when the time comes stay tuned for the rest of our MWC coverage as we jump around Barcelona Spain for the next week and you're going to want to subscribe to the channel and hit that Bell over on the side so you can keep up with all of the announcements that are just about to happen with all that said I'm gonna call it on this one thank you so much for watching and we'll see you in our next video