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I love voice phones, and so do around 20 million other Americans. While most folks in the US have moved on to smartphones, there's a stable, die-hard market for inexpensive flips that hasn't gone away. While I've been disappointed by a lot of the recent offerings out there, I saw one today that excites me: Alcatel's new Go Flip 3/Smartflip running the KaiOS operating system. You can play videos stored on your microSD card, but they look grainy on the small screen. Comparisons and Conclusions TCL Communication claimed that their Go Flip 4 battery can last up to 18 days standby or 12 hours talk time. We believe that the phone battery lasts that long because we might only use it for basic activities and nothing heavy. Is the Alcatel Go Flip 4 a good phone? Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. See how we test. The speakerphone isn't great. The speaker itself is bottom-ported, so it faces away from you, and it isn't very loud. More importantly, speakerphone microphone transmissions on the Sprint network came through as disappointingly muddy.

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I really wanted to like the Go Flip because KaiOS has so much potential. An easily extensible, HTML5-based feature phone OS could bridge some of the gaps between smart and feature phones, keeping up with new talk and messaging services as they arise. It's a great idea. Voice dialing is missing. At least you can define ringtones by caller, and use your own songs as ringtones if you like. There's a Wi-Fi hotspot mode, as well as USB modem tethering. That said, the Snapdragon 210's Cat 4 modem is pretty slow, so you probably won't see speeds much above 10Mbps. The Go Flip's camera is simply bad. There's a 2-megapixel main camera, which records 320-by-258 video. Images look yellow or bluish, blurry or like the lens is coated in Vaseline. The video mode only gets up to a jerky 20 frames per second in good indoor light, and the screen image kept tearing when I recorded. The phone supports LTE on bands 2/4/5/12/14/25/16/41+HPUE/66/71, along with 2G and 3G GSM and CDMA. This gives it maximum possible coverage on networks from AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint, and it means it will make calls on a merged Sprint/T-Mobile network if the two carriers do finally get together.Since Alcatel Go Flip 4 is specifically designed for texting and calling, there is no need to have a huge storage, do they? The phone provides 4GB storage with expandable memory up to 32GB – an ideal space for a phone this size.

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Alcatel also told me this phone will have—get this—50 percent better standby battery life than the previous model, which had 12 days of quoted standby time, but which many buyers said had more like three days after the fact. That's without increasing the device size. The 1,350mAh battery is still removable, too. The phone works as a hotspot on T-Mobile but, oddly, not on AT&T. Don't expect major hotspot speeds: The Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 processor here only supports relatively slow Category 4 LTE, so you'll get 10-20Mbps LTE speeds rather than much higher. Otherwise, the specs here are as basic as the previous Go Flip: a Snapdragon 210 processor, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage plus a MicroSD card slot, a 2.8-inch, 320-by-240 main screen, and a 2MP camera that is sure to not be very good. On T-Mobile and Metro, but not AT&T, it will have a hotspot mode, but the hotspot probably won't be very fast. Google Assistant is good for more than just messages; hold down the button and ask it a question, and it will respond with Google answers. I wish it could be triggered from the action button on a Bluetooth headset, though —you actually have to hold down the center button on the phone's D-pad to make it work.Battery life is fine. It isn't eternal, but I got 7 hours, 48 minutes of talk time and at least three days of standby on the 1,350mAh battery. That's much better than previous Alcatel flips and shoule be enough for most people. The Alcatel Go Flip 4 sports a 1,850mAh removable battery. The removable battery is probably the feature we can appreciate in this modern world. It's funny: The older Go Flip 2 also has a Snapdragon 210, but it doesn't perform nearly as well as the new model does. Alcatel said that KaiOS 2.5 is much more efficient than the KaiOS 1.0 on the older phone, and it really shows. As a flip phone, Alcatel Go Flip 4 offers advanced features. The device is running a 1.3GHz Quad-core, Qualcomm Snapdragon 215. This makes the phone navigation smooth. The fact that a Snapdragon processor is integrated into this flip phone is something worth considering. The Go Flip is available on Sprint and T-Mobile . For both carriers, it's part of a push to shift customers from 2G, which most voice phones still use, to 4G LTE, so the carriers can retire the old 2G networks in the future. (For what it's worth, both Sprint and T-Mobile intend to keep 2G alive for at least two more years.) As of this writing, it's the only low-cost feature phone those carriers sell. Design and Call Quality

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Another benefit is that when we accidentally drop our phone in the water, we can dry it off by opening the battery cover so it won’t affect other components inside the phone.Call quality is good. The phone supports HD calling (but not EVS, the second level of HD) and the earpiece is loud and clear. In a loud environment, the phone worked hard to cancel out noise, resulting in a few audio artifacts but generally comprehensible speech. The speakerphone is loud, and shows a little bit of clipping and distortion at top volume. Wi-Fi calling is the one real quality fail, but it often is; on a weak or cluttered 2.4GHz Wi-Fi signal, you're going to get dropouts. But when we attached a Plantronics Voyager Focus UC headset, the Go Flip's old Bluetooth 3.0 connection struggled. Calls in the headset sounded thready, and my voice was highly compressed, at one point so squashed that an IVR had trouble telling what I was saying.

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I'm that 5G guy. I've actually been here for every "G." I've reviewed well over a thousand products during 18 years working full-time at PCMag.com, including every generation of the iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy S. I also write a weekly newsletter, Fully Mobilized, where I obsess about phones and networks. There's been a crisis in flip phones over the past few years. US carriers are reducing their 2G and 3G networks and focusing on 4G calling, which many older and less expensive phones don't support. Simple phones that support 4G calling have been hard to find. We also thought that the phone didn’t have enough tools to make our lives easier. It isn’t smart enough, especially for the next generation of expressive users who constantly want more than just being connected to people. The good news is that we can still zoom in and zoom out the snapshots. We can also record a video using the phone. Another interesting feature is the option to choose a high or low-quality image for the shots.KaiOS, which is based on the same core that previously gave us Firefox OS, sits on the fence between a feature phone and a smartphone operating system. It's really rendering a lot of HTML, and the apps are primarily HTML5 containers that run offline. The OS has become popular in India thanks to the low-cost Jio Phone, a device that has brought tens of millions of people online for the first time. The less said about the phone's single 2-megapixel camera, the better. Photos in even decent indoor light tend to be blurry and indistinct. Outdoors, everything looks slightly out of focus. Videos are washed-out 352-by-288 frames. There is also no front facing camera, so don't expect to do video calling here. The Alcatel Go Flip 4 is a compact and lightweight phone with just 133 grams. It fits our hand comfortably, and flipping it using our thumb is fairly easy.