the most expensive iphone you can get is the 512 Gigabyte version of the 10s max
coming in at 1 49 us dollars which when you throw in
apple care and a headphone adapter is about 40
more than the global median monthly income per person
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okay so follow along with me here alcatel is a french smartphone brand
owned by nokia from finland and licensed
by chinese manufacturer tcl who you
might remember from the why the slippery friendly content is everyone buying this
tv video no doubt this is a very cosmopolitan
phone with no less than seven localized variants now the version available in
the us the one that we've got here is the 5059 a with one Gigabyte of RAM 16
gigs of microsd expandable storage a mediatek 6739 quad core processor and
eight and five megapixel flash equipped cameras on the rear and front of the
phone respectively it also has a fingerprint reader as i alluded to
before a feature that is notably absent though from the i and t variants of the
phone that are being marketed in india on the plus side the indian devices do
have dual sim and you can still unlock the phone with your face
regardless of which model you get though the one x has a 2460 milliamp hour
battery a 5.3 inch 18 by 9 aspect ratio
480 by 960 display which in landscape
mode amounts to something kind of like widescreen 480p like to the point where
you can actually see a staircase effect on round buttons or profile pictures
meaning that the display of this thing is not cutting edge but
it's 99 bucks which apparently is enough to get you a headphone jack at the very
least go figure courage interestingly
the one x is very similar in size and weight to google's pixel 3 except that
it has a knurled lock button micro usb
instead of type c and a textured backing that alcatel calls suede but to me kind
of feels more like sandstone or textured plastic it actually kind of reminds me
of the white oneplus 5t but it doesn't feel as durable
but just because the one x has budget hardware doesn't mean that the
experience of using it is 100 junk because this was the first phone to
launch in the us equipped with Android go the os experience designed for
devices with a gig of RAM or less and what's cool is that it is nearly a full
featured version of Android sort of
notable exclusions are high performance features like split screen and daydream
vr and i get why those weren't feasible and some others that
caught us a little off guard Android auto and Android wear remember
these are google's own products are not only not supported to the point where
they are hidden from the play store but when you even go as far as to side load
them you're going to be greeted with a google play services error then when you
go ahead and side load that you'll be greeted with a successful install
message followed by them not working anyway
so james's theory here is that there is a technical reason for these to be
excluded to maintain usable performance and to extend battery life while keeping
the device affordable something has got to give
as for me
i think there's an element of that but in the case of something like where
why go out of your way to lock it out i think it might be a product segmentation
thing where google is assuming that if you can afford a smart watch or a car
for that matter you can probably afford a better phone
one thing that we agree about is that these features are more like creature
comforts rather than core products so let's move on and talk about the
differences there Android goes main differentiator is the
lighter loadout of default apps google has made these lightweight versions of
their apps including search gmail gboard
youtube and even the google assistant that last one is a big plus because some
other budget devices that are more than twice as expensive as this one run older
versions of Android that don't support google assistant at all
and what's really cool is that while some go apps like gmail go feel nearly
identical to their full-featured cousins that's already a good thing
some of them actually add new features youtube go for example doesn't allow
uploading or even commenting on videos which sort of bites but
it shows you how much data is required to watch a video it offers previews so
you don't waste your data on a video that wasn't what you were looking for
and it even lets you download videos to your device a feature that's usually
only available to youtube premium members unfortunately just because you
have an Android go device doesn't mean every go app will be
available our one x actually came with the regular
youtube app installed because while it's available in 130 low connectivity
countries youtube go is not widely
available in the global north and when we tried to sideload it we were greeted
with a message stating that our device was incompatible
bummer another interesting one is google maps go which at just 32 kilobytes is
almost an order of magnitude smaller
than the regular app and that is partly because
it's not actually an app it's one of google's progressive web apps so the
icon on your home screen is really just a link to a website
it looks feels and quacks like an app
but unfortunately while it can give you directions it cannot do turn by turn
navigation so should you buy this phone
well that depends on the one hand it's a 99 dollar budget
phone that feels pretty good in the hand comes with a charger screen protector
and headphones in the box records 30fps full hd video and runs alcatel's joy
launcher skin which is pretty close to stock Android on the other hand it's a 99 budget phone
it is so slow in spite of its optimized
software it has only one speaker right here making it not great for
watching movies and it has a tn panel screen with a massive air gap and
off-brand glass that make it a fingerprint and glare magnet oh yeah and
that micro b connector kind of sucks too
but budget devices are all about compromise and the good thing we can say
about this one is that it is a heck of a lot better than users not having access
to these services at all or being forced to settle for old software that doesn't
have the latest security updates so it's a big step forward
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