alcatel Idol Mini
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- Ruuurruurrur
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- 09 Jun 2021
Mihailo, 25 Sep 2019I had this phone. At first about 2 years, it works good, bu... moreJust because the hardware is continuously becomes outdated overtime, and newer softwares and technologies require much more hardware power than it can provide. Also the cache of android and apps gets huge overtime
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- Anonymous
- CGH
- 26 Oct 2020
zack, 22 Aug 2015I dont find SD card slot.. Somebody can help me Where do you insect sd card
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- Mihailo
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- 25 Sep 2019
I had this phone. At first about 2 years, it works good, but after 2 years it begin to lagging. I can't broke the screen, I played football with this phone, but nothing. It was in snow 2 times at all day and it worked, but it wasn't waterproof. Now its system is broken and I can't restore it, beacuse it isn't rooted.
Sorry for bad english.
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- Jason
- M2q
- 15 Mar 2019
I've had one of these for years. I've barely used it, only because I bought it to use years ago after I trashed the phone I was using at the time and was waiting for the Nexus 6 to launch.
This phone is 95 percent unusable now, by which anything other than basic web browsing will slow this phone down to a crawl and the phone becomes seriously laggy. Even just web browsing is slow. Forget about using Facebook/Instagram/Tumblr or any social media apps. Just phone calls and text messaging is about all this phone can handle now
The screen is rather nice though
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- Fatemeh
- a3d
- 09 Oct 2018
Hi, My LCD screen is broken. Do you have any place to buy.
Help me please
Thank you
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- jn%
- 16 Jul 2018
Had mine for four years. Great for a first phone! Does the job and the battery easily lasts the day without spending a lot of time on apps. Not a lot of space and pictures are low quality. Happy with it overall
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- Amir
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- 02 Aug 2017
I like it very much i used it for about five years . I have iphone and huawei cellphone too but i like bcz its lightweight ,under 100 grams, its ok for calling and browsing the volume of speaker is high the battery is not huge but swell suited for it and i like it can be charged by any charger i usually use it for wifi connection and i grab it in my hand without feeling it.
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- sb{
- 25 May 2017
Bell should NOT be selling this Alcatel Mini Idol phone to anyone . The Reviews on this phone are horrible and rightly so. Does Bell really feel entitled to scam clients like that?. Disgraceful. !!!!!!
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- sb{
- 22 May 2017
It was very alarming that my Mini Alcatel Idol phone from Bell overheated on my flight to Florida recently. The Airline staff and myself were unable to shut it off. It was overheating in my purse and I was very scared!!!!!! Bell should not have sold me this Known Overheating Phone and the one year Warranty is barely over. What now??????
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- sb{
- 21 May 2017
I had this Mini Alcatel 18 months and now it's unrepairable. Unable to shut if off when overheating on a recent flight. Very scary!!!!!!! Very disappointed with this pitiful product. Now I need to buy another phone. In my opinion, a phone should last longer than 18 months. I have not damaged it myself..it just a horrible product sold to me by Bell.
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- LHf
- 07 Mar 2017
Owogbemi, 30 Jan 2017I like the phone, I newly got it, but I am curious about op... moreu are not suppose to open the phone. Sim and SD card should be inserted from side, there are plastic covers ,push one side and it will popup where u can put sim/sd
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- AnonD-650388
- PpC
- 06 Mar 2017
i had this phone, it was very slow, if you try to open a game or app it crash.
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- AnonD-399801
- LHf
- 07 Feb 2017
turn off autoplay feature on facebook. it should prevent ur phone from crashing
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- Owogbemi
- Nue
- 30 Jan 2017
I like the phone, I newly got it, but I am curious about opening it. How do I pen it?
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- gJs
- 26 Jan 2017
Yes the FB app does not work well with it. I disabled it and used the browser to go on FB. Even had a tab on the front screen so it felt like using an app.
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- KgW
- 19 Jan 2017
Still my reliable workhorse for more than 3 years now. Only using this phone exclusively for calls, messaging as well as FB Lite (Since the FB app is slow and makes my phone shut down then boots up). If you want to make your Idol Mini last longer, I would suggest resetting it to factory settings and disabling and uninstalling the apps that is too slow for the phone (Maybe include the FB app if you have the same problem as mine). My new Galaxy J1 (2016) now handles the things that my Idol Mini used to handle.
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- Mb
- gJs
- 18 Jan 2017
Had it for almost 3 years. At first it was really fast, I could even multitast. The last 6 months connecting with 3g made it really slow, worked better with wifi though. I was content with it, until one day it got a white screen. It served me well though all this time.
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- AnonD-620411
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- 13 Dec 2016
Got one of these for my mother to introduce here to smartphones and I can't for the life of me, figure out how to extend the timeout for the button lights. Anyone know? They come on for about two seconds when you touch them, and then turn off again.
What's the point in having lights on the buttons if they only light up AFTER you touch them? That's the ONLY time you DON'T need the lights because you just found the button!
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- Anonymous
- fvH
- 23 Nov 2016
Horrible, Just HORRIBALE, bas user experience.
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- Axe
- StU
- 14 Nov 2016
Forgot to mention. The earphone Jack stopped working 4 months into me owning the phone then later the mini USB port stopped working altogether meaning I could no longer charge it. The charger the phone came with ended up setting on fire so I had to get rid of it before it set my house on fire.