Alcatel Idol 3: the first reverse smartphone for RM 1,2K
Today, the Chinese corporation announced that they started to launch the Alcatel Idol 3 on sale in their home country with the price of 1799 yuan. This is equivalent to an Alcatel Idol 3 price in Malaysia as around RM 1200.
Alcatel Idol 3 biggest highlights
The biggest highlight of the smartphone is that, it is automatically adjusted by sensing the gravity orientation of the handset and microphone, once the device is turned upside down. And by this, the Alcatel Idol 3 allows you to talk on the phone with microphone and loudspeakers turned respectively to fit.
The phone is available in various color options: tyrant gold, elegant silver, sky gray etc. Alcatel Idol 3 looks great in your hands with a display of 5.5 inch and as thin as 7.4 mm. On both sides of the rear (upper and lower), there are loudspeakers to support phone calls when reversed.
Beside the special feature as mentioned, Alcatel Idol 3 carries a combination of really good specs. There are 2 versions of display sizes, known as 5.5 inches and 4.7 inches. And in this post, we are talking about the bigger version of the device.
Alcatel Idol 3 specs
Device | Alcatel Idol 3 |
Display | 5.5 inches,IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, 1080 x 1920 pixels |
Thickness | 8.7mm |
Weight | 149g |
Camera | 13 MP, 4128 x 3096 pixels, autofocus, LED flash.
FRONT: 8MP |
Processor | Qualcomm MSM8939 Snapdragon 615Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 & quad-core 1.0 GHz Cortex-A53 |
RAM | 2GB |
Storage | 16GB/32GB, expandable to 128GB |
OS | Android OS, v5.0 (Lollipop) |
Battery | Non-removable Li-Ion 2910 mAh battery |
Connectivity | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, hotspot |
SIM | Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) |
Color options: | Various color options |
Alcatel Idol 3 price
Alcatel Idol 3 (aka TCL Idol 3) is now available in their home country China for a price tag of RM 1,200. We are yet to know whether and when the device will go to our local market yet. But we hope we can find Alcatel Idol 3 Malaysia soon to experience the unique reverse call function.