Alcatel One Touch Idol Alpha hands on review: light up my life

New, exciting and brimming with promise. Yeah, it’s another Android smartphone, but the Alcatel Idol One Touch Alpha (let’s call it the Alpha for brevity) is a beautiful phone. We managed to get our hands on it and have created a sort-of, kind-of review. It’s also the first phone I’ve ever used that comes in two flavours of champagne colouring, namely gold and rose (although South Africa only gets the rose-coloured variant Q4 2014). The one I used had the third, boring-as-sin “slate” colour, but thankfully it’s wrapped in a metal frame that’s almost as handsome as the iPhone 5s’. Still, don’t get a slate-coloured phone, only confused first-time smartphones buyers would buy a phone the same colour as their driveway. On to the Alpha.

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