Pop Up, Start, First and Idol 3C hands-on: Alcatel Day 2

Alcatel Idol 3C

The Alcatel Idol 3C is the de facto flagship of the IFA 2015 lineup. It's technically a more colorful version of the Idol 3 that was unveiled in March at the MWC. The hardware is identical – note that we're talking about the 5.5" version.

Alcatel Idol 3C

The major difference (if you could call it that) is that you can pop off the back cover, Alcatel offers a number of brightly colored options to replace it.

Alcatel Idol 3C color options

Here's what the Idol 3C looks like with the yellow back.

Alcatel Idol 3C

Alcatel Pop Up hands-on

The Alcatel Pop Up wants to offer performance on a tight budget. It slips under the 3rd gen Moto G and offers a similar 5" 720p screen, camera department (13MP/1080p on the back, 5MP/1080p on the front) and runs Android Lollipop.

Alcatel Pop Up

It's powered by quad-core processor, which is clocked at 1GHz and with just 1GB of RAM. There's no 2GB RAM, 16GB storage option though. Still, at €180 it's a good €50 below the Moto G (3rd gen).

Alcatel Pop

The back covers are exchangeable. They are rather glossy, but surprisingly did not attract fingerprints.