Alcatel A30

Amazon has started taking pre-orders for the Alcatel A30, a brand new smartphone that costs less than US$ 100 and released on April 19.

Amazon Prime members can purchase the handset for just US$ 59.99, but they'll get Amazon offers and ads on the home screen. If you want to buy the Alcatel A30 without Amazon ads, you'll have to pay US$ 99.99 - that's still not a bad price for what the device has to offer.

Running Android 7 Nougat, the Alcatel A30 sports a 5-inch display with 720 x 1280 pixels, and is powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 processor clocked at 1.1 GHz. There's 2 GB of RAM on board, in addition to 16 GB of expandable storage space. The new smartphone further comes with speakers on the front, an 8 MP rear camera, and a 5 MP front-facing cam.

The Alcatel A30 can be purchased from Amazon unlocked in both GSM (for AT&T and T-Mobile), and CDMA (for Verizon) variants. You'll get LTE connectivity in both cases.