Alcatel OneTouch Fire Pro Reviews

Alcatel's One Touch Fire is certainly not a technical highlight. It is actually a step back into the smartphone-stone age in some areas: Small screen, low resolution, occasional lags during use, and plastic no matter where the hands are placed. Then again, certain restrictions can be accepted for a price of only just 90 Euros (~$123), and the excitement of trying out a completely new system is virtually priceless. However, Firefox OS can also be tested via a plug-in in the Firefox browser; more information can be found here. Users who want to immediately try out Firefox OS on a phone, and who can live with some restrictions in terms of software and hardware, will find a quite elegantly designed, very handy, and intuitive to use device in Alcatel's One Touch Fire. Everyone else should perhaps be patient. The availability of devices will surely grow in a few months, Firefox OS will certainly be better developed after a few updates, and the marketplace will likely have more to offer. We are looking forward to the future!

In conclusion, we've got to say that the Alcatel One Touch left us truly polarized, confused and, frankly, frustrated on a number of things. On one hand, we acknowledge the fact that this is a budget device through and through, and lousy hardware is to be expected. On the other hand, however, we can't pretend to be oblivious to the fact that this device probably shouldn't have made the internal cut to start with. Then, there's Firefox OS. We're plenty excited about the prospect of more diversity, we really are. Unfortunately, even when accounting for the part that the low-end hardware played, we've got to say that the OS has a long, long way to go. This means that while the underlying functionality is mostly stable and working, Mozilla is many miles away from offering the user experience that its rivals do. What's even more, while we understand that Mozilla needs to start somewhere, we've got to question whether it was the wisest decision to go with such a decidedly low-end device that simply magnifies the OS' weaknesses and only serves to push the odd early adopter away.