The Alcatel 1 (2021) is even more basic and it will cost just € 59 when it becomes available in August. It will ship in Europe and Latin America. It’s a relatively small device with a 5” screen with 480 x 960 px resolution (18:9). The phone measures 137.6 x 65.7 x 9.9 mm and weighs 134g with its tiny 2,000 mAh battery that charges at less than 5W over microUSB (the whole process takes over 3 hours). It should lats up to 8 hours of talk time on a 4G network, though.
And yes, this does feature 4G connectivity (B1/3/7/8/20), thanks to the MT6739 chipset. That is by far the best feature of the chip, it’s certainly not its quad A53 cores at 1.28 GHz or the IMG GE8100 GPU (450 MHz). The chip is given only 1 GB of RAM to work with and 16 GB storage, of which 12 GB are user accessible, so you may want to make use of that microSD slot (which supports cards up to 32 GB). The phone is a dual-SIM device with a dedicated spot for the microSD.
Anyway, there’s a 5 MP camera on the back (1/5” sensor, 1.12 µm pixels) with a fixed focus f/2.4 lens. It can record 720p video at 30 fps. There’s also a 2 MP selfie camera (1/5”, 1.75 µm f/2.8 FF), also capable of 720p/30 fps recording.
Additional features on the Alcatel 1 (2021) include Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n), Bluetooth 4.2 (there’s a 3.5 mm headphone jack too), GPS and an accelerometer. And another feature – it will ship with a charger in the box.
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