While the benchmarks for the system aren’t strong, the overall performance doesn’t lag ridiculously, providing a slowdown here and there usually while loading up apps or even jumping between some. Switching it on and playing with the phone, our feelings are more or less confirmed, though they’re not as bad as we expected. That said, MediaTek chips tend to be quite power efficient, so we understand while Alcatel possibly opted for one here, as for $149, we suspect battery life will be prioritised over mind-blowing performance. It’s not that MediaTek is bad, but rather that the processors it builds usually don’t rate as well in speed as their Qualcomm friends. Next up there’s how it handles, and with a MediaTek processor on-board, we have our expectations about how the Alcatel-made Optus Sleek is going to perform, and the feeling isn’t amazing.
In the hands, it can be a tad slippery, one of those part and parcel things that glass bodied phones do tend to have, but we’ll take a feeling of sturdiness over that of mediocre plastic any day of the week, and it is most definitely welcome here.
Instead of going for a polycarbonate body, it switches out the cheap materials for something more durable, with a glass back, glass front for the screen, and a metal frame, a result that makes the whole phone feel premium. The Alcatel-built Optus X Sleek, however, reminds you of the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S7, the non-edge versions of the phones. Normally, budget phones tend to be made of plastic, or have a tiny amount of metal accenting somewhere in the body. The battery is rated at 2460mAh and is not removable.įirst off there’s how the thing looks, and that’s an area that will leave you surprised in a good way. Wired connections can still be found here, with a 3.5mm headset jack up top, while the microUSB port for charging and data transfer can be found sitting in the regular place at the bottom.Īnd there’s also that nanoSIM tray with the microSD expandable memory, found along the left edge and retrievable with a pin ejector tool found in the box.
Optus x lite 4g Bluetooth#
On the other side of the phone there’s the screen, with a 5 inch display offering the resolution of 1280×720 (720p), with fixed soft buttons down below.Ĭonnections on the phone are relatively normal for a mid-range device, offering support for Category 4 4G LTE meaning speeds as high as 150Mbps down and 50Mbps up, while 802.11b/g/n WiFi is included alongside GPS and Bluetooth 4.0 with A2DP and Bluetooth LE (Low Energy).
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Google’s Android 6.0 “Marshmallow” arrives on the phone out of the box, with a relatively stock operating system that has a few tweaks from where Google normally leaves it, though much of what’s here isn’t far off from the way Google likes to do things.Ĭameras are pretty much expected on phones these days, and you’ll find a 13 megapixel camera on the back of this one supporting 1080p Full HD video capture, while the front facing camera sits at 5 megapixels.īeneath the rear camera, there’s something extra included, and a little unusual for a sub-$150 phone: a fingerprint sensor.
Made by Alcatel and normally branded as the Alcatel Shine Lite, the Optus X Sleek is that phone locked to Optus, so if you have plans on grabbing a budget Alcatel phone and bringing it to your other Aussie telco, think again.īut if, however, you’re using the Optus network or don’t care which network you start out on, it’s all good because the X Sleek will work for you here.įor this phone, you’ll find a MediaTek MT6737 quad-core processor working alongside 2GB RAM (the recommended minimum for most phones these days), as well as 16GB storage with room to move via a microSD slot.
Is this going to be a complete disaster, or will we be absolutely surprised? We’ve seen it arrive in Oppo and Huawei phone for as little as $199, but a new prepaid from Optus is in pretty much unknown territory, offering a metal and glass encased smartphone for $149. No, the big thing for cheap as chips phones is quality.įorget about the plastic crap of yesteryear, because entry level phones are beginning to forgo the polymer and replace it with alloy and glass, materials that allow the less than pricey smartphone to compete with their siblings that command higher price tags. The big thing in cheap smartphones isn’t a better screen or a better camera, because these days that’s all becoming quite normal as flagship technology makes its way from the expensive down to the mid-range and through to budget.
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