Alcatel Brings Affordable Line-up to IFA 2019: New Phones, Tablet and Linkhub

TCL might be planning to take center stage at IFA with their first-ever TCL smartphone but that doesn’t mean the company forgot about the Alcatel fans.

TLC Communication, the mother company of Alcatel, introduced four new products at IFA 2019, all of them with accessible price tags.

The highlight is definitely the Alcatel 3X, a 6.5-inch mid-range smartphone with a HD+ Super Full View Display and a triple rear camera. 

TCL says the 16MP + 8MP + 5MP rear camera combo is “equipped with smart scene detection that identifies different photo scenarios and automatically optimizes photography setting for perfect shooting”.

It also features a 102 degrees super wide-angle lens, plus real-time bokeh for portraits. On the selfie side, the Alcatel 3X comes with a single 8 MP sensor.

The rest of the specs are completed by an Octa-core processor and a dedicated button to summon Google Assistant which, considering the €149 price tag.

Even more affordable and still with a Google Assistant button is the Alcatel 1V, a device with a 5.5-inch 18:9 display with a 480 x 960 px resolution. 

This one is a decidedly entry-level device starting at €79, with 1 GB of ram paired with an Octa-core chipset, a 5MP rear camera capable of shooting at 1080p @30fps and a 5 MP front camera with f/2.2 aperture.

Then, there’s the Alcatel Smart Tab 7, a tablet which, as the name suggests, features 16.7 m colors capacitive display with a 7-inch diagonal.

While the specs are still entry-level (1.5 GB of RAM + 12 GB storage expandable to 12 GB with a Micro SD card), the Alcatel Smart Tab 7 does ship with Android 9 Pie and Google Assistant for just €79.

And last, Alcatel’s name at IFA 2019 also shows on the LINKHUB LTE cat7 Home Station.

Promising a 300 Mbps downlink and 100 Mbps uplink, the Linkhub makes it easy to manage your network.

Truth be told, it also looks much more expensive than its €129 thanks to a minimalistic design.