alcatel Fierce
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- Chris
- Ixa
- 03 Aug 2014
does this phone have a led light in the front
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- Anonymous
- sih
- 02 Aug 2014
@santi one reason why I hate this stupid phone is that it can NEVER access 3G but only toggles to 2G. this phone is the worst of garbage
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- santi
- S0u
- 02 Aug 2014
its good i like it specially its to light but my 3g Sim card working only as 2g and can you tell me what i gave to do ?
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- Anonymous
- Ibx
- 01 Aug 2014
Anonymous, 30 Jul 2014my 2nd alcatel..and when i txt phone shuts down..cust serv.... moreThis phone is no good the screen goes out on you the volume is very low I am so sorry I brought this phone it is garbage only thing I like is the camera it takes very nice pictures
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- matt
- 4xV
- 01 Aug 2014
AnonD-289752, 01 Aug 2014Just to be a third party and third opinion, I've had the Al... moreGo to the play store and install adobe reader. Problem solved
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- AnonD-289752
- rWd
- 01 Aug 2014
And I've forgotten to mention that recently with calls, my phone would allow whomever I'm speaking to to hear me with clarity but would leave my side of the conversation dead silent. I have no idea why that is but it's been happening recently alot.
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- AnonD-289752
- rWd
- 01 Aug 2014
AnonD-288239, 29 Jul 2014@anonymous You may want to research a little the talking... moreJust to be a third party and third opinion, I've had the Alcatel since like February and while it is the best phone I've had yet, it has its issues. Yes you do have a bigger SD card but I myself cannot afford an SD card as big as yours to avoid my lagging issues. Especially when my phone is updating apps, I can't do anything else with it because it freezes for a couple of minutes. Also, with the PDF, my phone doesn't open those, it will always say it can download it and it does but it never opens them so I don't really know what to say on that one but I can tell you that my information was "given" to me.
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- Mireya
- Ibx
- 01 Aug 2014
16 days after I bought this phone, it turned off, sent it In and paid $10 for shipping. Waited a month and a half to get the same phone. A month later it turned off again. No picture at al. Paid $12 bucks for shipping this time. Waited another month and got a new one"supposingly" not even a week later this phone turns off at work after an 8 hour shift never did the other do that so when I got off work I charged it up to 75% charged set the alarm took it to bed with me at midnight, woke up at 7:00am with the vibration of the phone turning off and when I went to grab it, it burned my hand. It was extremely hot. I am so ready to tell these people off but where will it get me. Extremely disappointed!!!
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- Anonymous
- Ibx
- 30 Jul 2014
Anonymous, 22 Jul 2014Love???Seriously??You probably got lucky. I hate this phone... moremy 2nd alcatel..and when i txt phone shuts down..cust serv..wont give new model..tld me metro would thats a lie..phne sux even web cant type.turn phne off bogs typng..now i cant watch vid an dwnld sux dnt wrk.
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- AnonD-288239
- jkg
- 29 Jul 2014
Anonymous, 28 Jul 2014For those not convinced of why this phone SUCKS here you go... more@anonymous
You may want to research a little the talking points you have been given to discredit this phone.
1. I don't know about 3G (and I don't care).
2. So you are attacking T-Mobile as well as Alcatel! Hmmm....
3. Fierce DOES have an average quality flash. As for the pictures quality, phones are NOT cameras. They are intended for casual capturing of instant moments which would otherwise be lost, when a camera is not available. The picture quality varies from one model to another, but CHECK THE PRICE!
4. As I mentioned, I've downloaded and installed 80 apps on this phone. I still have over 750 MB storage space and 200-250 MB RAM available. This is more than enough, even for an apps junkie like me. For those who use the phone to take and store thousands of pictures nobody ever looks at, I have news for you! There is a slot on the phone for a micro HDSC card(up to 32 GB in size).
5. The phone has built-in wifi calling (it's one of the reasons I've purchased it), but the app is very poor. Using Google Voice instead, solves the problem 100%.
6. My phone was never laggy and never froze. As I mentioned, the lemon percentage for the Fierce is probably higher than that of the brand names. It is something a reasoning person can live with when he/she pays for the Fierce less than 20% of what's paid for a high end brand name.
7. On all the Android phones I ever had I've installed the Multiling keyboard, because I need the diacritics when typing in other languages. On this phone, it works as well as on any previous phone, with none of the symptoms you mention.
8. I don't know what you mean by ugly display. Personally, I think the phone looks cool. As for display quality, it is not a Retina, but CHECK THE PRICE!!!
9. The battery on my phone lasts about 12 hours. It is the same or better than any phone I ever had.
10. I have Office Suite 7. It can open AND save in PDF format. I also have Moon+ Reader which can open many eBook formats, epub, mobi and pdf included. The PDF Utility Lite can split, join and extract images from PDF files up to 1.5 MB in size. The CamScanner can save pictures from camera or storage in PDF format.
It is obvious you NEVER used this phone.
11. This is at least the third time you mention some criminal history Alcatel has. Although an important player on the European and Asian markets, Alcatel is a new comer in the US. Therefore, while most Americans never heard of Alcatel, you keep mentioning this corporation criminal history, while not knowing Fierce works fine with PDF files. Again, obviously, you use talking points GIVEN to you.
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- matt
- Rbq
- 28 Jul 2014
Anonymous, 28 Jul 2014what is wrong with this phone???did you seriously ask that ... moreActually, the phone is made by tct mobile of hong kong. Alcatel lucent sold their stake in the company a few years ago.
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- AnonD-288239
- jkg
- 28 Jul 2014
Anonymous, 28 Jul 2014By the way I AM NOT a rival manufacturer. I'm just a pissed... more@Anonymous
I've read a lot of messages with your exact style. You seem to be a fixture on this board.
The Samsung Galaxy S5, which is really a great phone, sells in average at $575. That is almost six times the price I paid for the Fierce. This is VERY important for people who reason when they buy something. As opposed to those who spend money to show off their belongings.
The percentage of lemons among the Alcatel Fierce is probably much higher than among the high end Samsung, Apple, Nokia or Sony phones, but you can buy the Alcatel several times and you still don't pay the same as you pay for the brand names.
Apple makes the best hardware, but they charge five-six times what it costs them to manufacturer a device. That's why Samsung was able to snatch most of the market share from Apple (they sold items almost as good at more reasonable prices). Alcatel brought to the market this phone which by any stretch of imagination is not six times worse than a high end brand name. It performs actually extremely well and that scares the hell out of the other players.
As I said, since your comments show up many times on this board and you sign as anonymous, I suspect you may be just doing your job when you vehemently criticize this phone. If somehow this is not the case, I really feel sorry for you!
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- Anonymous
- sih
- 28 Jul 2014
For those not convinced of why this phone SUCKS here you go:
no 3G only 4G or 2G
sponsored by two bad carriers T Mobile and Family Mobile
camera that can't take clear pics and no flash
only 4 gb storage
can't perform wifi calling
very laggy
keyboard too touch sensitive
freezes often
ugly display
terrible battery life
can't read PDF files
made by a company with criminal records
All those optimists UNDERSTAND NOW???
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- Anonymous
- sih
- 28 Jul 2014
By the way I AM NOT a rival manufacturer. I'm just a pissed off customer who was fooled by this piece of crap's cheap price.
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- Anonymous
- sih
- 28 Jul 2014
AnonD-288239, 28 Jul 2014I'm a Windows Phone user, but I needed an Android to run so... moreFor ANY DAMN PRICE EVEN FREE this phone is NOT amazing. Really???You SERIOUSLY said that the Samsung GALAXY S5 is not much better than this stupid phone???WHAT is WRONG with you? Are you on drugs? Samsung is a company with a great reputation while Alcatel has a history of crime. The positive reviews are probably from T Mobile or Alcatel workers who are trying to promote their garbage.
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- AnonD-288239
- jkg
- 28 Jul 2014
I'm a Windows Phone user, but I needed an Android to run some business apps not available for WP. I've bought the Alcatel Fierce from ebay, new and sealed for $97 with free shipping.
I'm really furious after reading so many negative reviews about Fierce, without any reasonable explanation of why.
For this price, this phone is AMAZINGLY good! Under the ALL tab of Applications Manager, I have 240 apps, 80 downloaded and installed by me. Available RAM is 200-250 MB. I had the phone for about six weeks and it never froze and never lagged.
I have Comcast app TV Go and Limo TV. The phone plays HD TV channels in full screen with no dropped frame and no artifacts! The quality of TV on this phone is incredible!
I don't play games on phones, but I've installed for testing Aircraft Combat. The game runs without dropping any frame, regardless of how many moving objects are on the screen or how fast you move through the scenery.
I'd say the voice quality is low end of average, but very loud, including on speaker.
The only really bad function of this phone is wifi calling. What I hear during a wifi call and what I'm told it's heard on the other end is VERY bad! The wifi calling app installed on the phone is very poor. However, I'm using Google Voice to call through the Internet, and that works impeccably.
NetFlix, YouTube and any other video streaming service works as well as on my laptop (with an i7 quad core processor).
I very strongly suspect these so many negative comments about this phone are planted by rival phone manufacturers scared that a competing device can perform at such high quality at a really low price. I am IT and my daughter (Samsung Note 2) and her husband (Samsung Galaxy S5) give me their phones to configure and maintain. Except for the larger screens (which I hate), the better image quality and the wifi calling, there is nothing which works better on those very expensive phones.
I recommend this phone to anybody who wants to own a smartphone with all the bells and whistles expected, working VERY WELL and costing a LOT less than the ridiculous prices charged by the brand names.
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- Anonymous
- sih
- 28 Jul 2014
btw I meant "don't do it" in my previous post
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- Anonymous
- sih
- 28 Jul 2014
Daniel G, 25 Jul 2014Not enough reviews are aimed at leaving a good review. This... moreThis phone doesn't deserve ANY good reviews. The people who made it need to find a different job. If you're not going to put your full effort into making or doing something, then do it. Same goes for Alcatel. I would love to see Alcatel withdrawing from the smartphone industry.
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- Anonymous
- sih
- 28 Jul 2014
AnonD-192663, 26 Jul 2014This is my first month with this phone and I'm surprised: N... moreIf you need to deactivate apps, that just means this phone isn't fit for its job. The sooner the world gets rid of Alcatel, the better the planet would be. Alcatel, I hate you so much I really do.
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- Anonymous
- sih
- 28 Jul 2014
AnonD-287371, 25 Jul 2014I really don't know what all the fuss about this phone is??... morewhat is wrong with this phone???did you seriously ask that question? i'll tell you what's wrong. it's a poorly designed phone with many technical flaws built by a lousy company with criminal charges!!!doesn't that say enough already???