Alcatel seems keen to establish itself in the tightly contested smartphone market with a host of new products ready to be launched at the IFA 2013 in Berlin. The company has announced a new smartphone, the Alcatel One Touch Idol ALPHA which the company will be showcasing later this week.
The Alcatel One Touch Idol ALPHA comes with a 4.7-inch HD IPS display with a resolution of 720x1280 pixels. It is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor along with 1GB of RAM. The device runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. It also sports a 12.1-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and can record full-HD videos. There is a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. It also includes 16GB of internal storage. The Alcatel One Touch Idol ALPHA is a single SIM device and comes with 2000mAh battery.
Earlier, Alcatel listed two new smartphones, One Touch Idol S and One Touch Idol Mini on its official website.
The Alcatel One Touch Idol S comes with a 4.7-inch IPS HD display with 720x1280 pixels resolution and features Dragontrail Glass with oleophobic coating. The smartphone is powered by 1.2GHz dual-core processor with 1GB of RAM. The One Touch Idol S sports an 8-megapixel rear camera accompanied by an LED flash and is capable of recording full-HD videos. It also comes with a 1.3-megapixel front camera. The smartphone runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.
On the other hand, the Alcatel One Touch Idol Mini features a 4.3-inch FWVGA display with 480x854 pixels resolution. It is powered by a 1.3GHz dual-core processor along with 512MB RAM. The Alcatel One Touch Idol Mini comes in two variants - single-SIM and dual-SIM.The Alcatel One Touch Idol Mini comes in two variants - single SIM and dual SIM. The internal storage on the single-SIM variant is 4GB, which can be expanded up to 32GB, while the dual-SIM variant comes with 8GB of non-expandable storage.

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Alcatel One Touch Idol ALPHA key specifications
- 4.7-inch IPS HD display with 720x1280 pixels
- 1.2GHz quad-core processor
- 1GB RAM
- 16GB internal storage
- 12.1-megapixel rear camera with LED flash
- 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera
- Android 4.2 Jelly Bean