Alcatel and US mobile carriers are no strangers to partnering as we have seen some budget-specced smartphones and tablets from their union which includes the likes of the Alcatel OneTouch Fierce, OneTouch Evolve, OneTouch Fierce 2 and OneTouch Evolve 2.
New details has surfaced this morning concerning a supposed new smartphone from Alcatel would be carried by T-Mobile; the pocket friendly smartphone would come with low-end specs. The device in question is the Alcatel OneTouch Pop Astro.
The Alcatel OneTouch Pop Astro would feature a 4.5-inch (960 X 540 pixels) qHD display, powered by a quad-core processor clocked at 1.2Ghz with 1GB of RAM and 4GB space of internal storage. A microSD card slot is reportedly in the mix as 4GB (less than that for usable ROM) wouldn’t be sufficient at all.
The main camera is a 5MP Auto-Focus snapper with LED flash and the front camera is a 0.3MP (VGA) Fixed-focus unit. It would support Wi-Fi calling, Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and has Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-fi Direct, Wi-Fi Tethering, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, GPS/A-GPS, 4G LTE and USB modem tethering.
It weighs 144.9 grams, measures 132.84 x 65.28 x 9.9mm in dimensions, has a single MicroSIM slot, runs Android 4.4 Kitkat OS (no word on an Android Lollipop update) and is backed by a battery strong enough to provide 250 hours of standby time. The Alcatel OneTouch Pop Astro is expected to priced moderately and it should cost more than $100.
