Alcatel GO FLIP 4044 4G LTE (Unlocked for All Carriers) Flip Phone for Seniors Big Buttons Easy to Use - Black

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Voice dialing is missing. At least you can define ringtones by caller, and use your own songs as ringtones if you like. You can play videos stored on your microSD card, but they look grainy on the small screen. Comparisons and Conclusions Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. See how we test. The Go Flip runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 processor, like other modern feature phones. The T-Mobile version has LTE bands 2/4/12, and the Sprint version has 25/26/41. I didn't have any RF problems indoors or out, and T-Mobile users will see a significant coverage advantage with this phone over one that relies primarily on 1900MHz 2G. Both models support Wi-Fi calling, on 2.4GHz networks only, and both have GSM/UMTS for international roaming. (According to Sprint, its model only roams within North America because of Sprint business policies.)

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We also thought that the phone didn’t have enough tools to make our lives easier. It isn’t smart enough, especially for the next generation of expressive users who constantly want more than just being connected to people.KaiOS, which is based on the same core that previously gave us Firefox OS, sits on the fence between a feature phone and a smartphone operating system. It's really rendering a lot of HTML, and the apps are primarily HTML5 containers that run offline. The OS has become popular in India thanks to the low-cost Jio Phone, a device that has brought tens of millions of people online for the first time. The phone supports LTE on bands 2/4/5/12/14/25/16/41+HPUE/66/71, along with 2G and 3G GSM and CDMA. This gives it maximum possible coverage on networks from AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint, and it means it will make calls on a merged Sprint/T-Mobile network if the two carriers do finally get together. The less said about the phone's single 2-megapixel camera, the better. Photos in even decent indoor light tend to be blurry and indistinct. Outdoors, everything looks slightly out of focus. Videos are washed-out 352-by-288 frames. There is also no front facing camera, so don't expect to do video calling here. The KaiOS interface may be all HTML5, but it looks just like other old-school feature phones: a grid of big icons with commands attached to Left and Right buttons below the screen. The colors are bold, the fonts are attractive, and the icons are clear, but once again it's all quite sluggish. It's all of the overhead of HTML5 with none of the apparent flexibility or extensibility, at least on this phone. Battery life is fine. It isn't eternal, but I got 7 hours, 48 minutes of talk time and at least three days of standby on the 1,350mAh battery. That's much better than previous Alcatel flips and shoule be enough for most people.

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The Alcatel Go Flip 4 has 2.8 inches display with QVGA quality. We don’t expect a high-definition display, but given its tiny screen, we felt it’s bright and clear enough for a traditional phone with 320 x 240 pixels resolution. The Alcatel Go Flip 4 is a compact and lightweight phone with just 133 grams. It fits our hand comfortably, and flipping it using our thumb is fairly easy. Google Assistant is good for more than just messages; hold down the button and ask it a question, and it will respond with Google answers. I wish it could be triggered from the action button on a Bluetooth headset, though —you actually have to hold down the center button on the phone's D-pad to make it work. The Go Flip is available on Sprint and T-Mobile . For both carriers, it's part of a push to shift customers from 2G, which most voice phones still use, to 4G LTE, so the carriers can retire the old 2G networks in the future. (For what it's worth, both Sprint and T-Mobile intend to keep 2G alive for at least two more years.) As of this writing, it's the only low-cost feature phone those carriers sell. Design and Call Quality

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It's funny: The older Go Flip 2 also has a Snapdragon 210, but it doesn't perform nearly as well as the new model does. Alcatel said that KaiOS 2.5 is much more efficient than the KaiOS 1.0 on the older phone, and it really shows.

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Alcatel also told me this phone will have—get this—50 percent better standby battery life than the previous model, which had 12 days of quoted standby time, but which many buyers said had more like three days after the fact. That's without increasing the device size. The 1,350mAh battery is still removable, too. I really wanted to like the Go Flip because KaiOS has so much potential. An easily extensible, HTML5-based feature phone OS could bridge some of the gaps between smart and feature phones, keeping up with new talk and messaging services as they arise. It's a great idea. The good news is that we can still zoom in and zoom out the snapshots. We can also record a video using the phone. Another interesting feature is the option to choose a high or low-quality image for the shots.Call quality is good. The phone supports HD calling (but not EVS, the second level of HD) and the earpiece is loud and clear. In a loud environment, the phone worked hard to cancel out noise, resulting in a few audio artifacts but generally comprehensible speech. The speakerphone is loud, and shows a little bit of clipping and distortion at top volume. Wi-Fi calling is the one real quality fail, but it often is; on a weak or cluttered 2.4GHz Wi-Fi signal, you're going to get dropouts. The speakerphone isn't great. The speaker itself is bottom-ported, so it faces away from you, and it isn't very loud. More importantly, speakerphone microphone transmissions on the Sprint network came through as disappointingly muddy.