Alcatel A3 XL review, advantages, disadvantages and specifications

Alcatel A3 XL has a superb primary camera of 8 MP, autofocus, and LED flash, It brings amazing features such as touch focus, geo-tagging, face detection, HDR, and panorama, It presents Full HD video of 1080p@30fps, It contains a wonderful secondary camera of 5 MP, 720p and it includes wonderful selfies.

Alcatel A3 XL advantages

Alcatel A3 XL has body dimensions of 165 x 82.5 x 7.9 mm ( 6.50 x 3.25 x 0.31 in ), It presents Single SIM (Nano-SIM) or Dual SIM ( Nano-SIM, dual stand-by ), It was announced in January 2017, It is released in 2017, and it includes superb build quality.

Alcatel A3 XL presents an IPS FL LCD capacitive touchscreen, with 16M colors, It comes with a great size of 6.0 inches (~72.9% screen-to-body ratio) which helps you watch videos, browse the Internet & play games, It brings HD resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels (~245 ppi pixel density) and it gives you multitouch feature, up to 5 fingers.

Alcatel A3 XL offers expandable memory via card slot microSD, up to 32 GB, It supports an internal memory of 8 GB, It brings 1.0 GB RAM that is very suitable for multitasking performance, It has got GPRS, It brings EDGE, It contains a superb & impressive design.

Alcatel A3 XL comes with Android OS, v7.0 ( Nougat ), It presents Mediatek MT8735B, It contains Quad-core 1.1 GHz Cortex-A53, It includes Mali-T720MP2 and it gives you a fantastic performance without any lags.

Alcatel A3 XL has a non-removable Li-Ion 3000 mAh battery that lasts for many hours, It comes in misc colours such as black, white, and gold, It brings messaging like Push Mail, SMS, MMS, Email, and IM and it comes with Browser HTML5.

Alcatel A3 XL supports 2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – SIM 1 & SIM 2, It includes 3G bands HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100, It presents 4G bands LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 7(2600), 8(900), 20(800), 28(700), Its speed is HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE Cat4 150/50 Mbps.

Alcatel A3 XL includes Comms WLAN such as Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, and hotspot, It presents Bluetooth v4.2, A2DP, LE, It supports USB, micro USB v2.0 USB On-The-Go and it contains GPS, with A-GPS.

Alcatel A3 XL offers Sound Alert types as Vibration, MP3 & WAV ringtones, It has active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic and it contains sensors such as an Ambient light sensor, Fingerprint ( rear-mounted ), Accelerometer, and Proximity.

Alcatel A3 XL gives you MP4/H.264 player, It brings MP3/WAV/AAC+/FLAC player, It offers a photo/video editor, It presents a document viewer, It includes a loudspeaker, It contains 3.5 mm jack and it supports FM radio.

Alcatel A3 XL contains a very good battery capacity, It has got sharp video recording of 1080p which helps record Full HD videos, It contains a flash that enables you to take superb photos in low light conditions and it has many superb connections such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, 3G, 4G and USB.

Alcatel A3 XL disadvantages

Alcatel A3 XL does not have Java, It does not contain water and dust resistant, It has no 4G in India ( Band 40 ) , It does not offer Infrared, It does not have an NFC feature to transfer data connections, It does not present Corning Gorilla Glass and it does not have fast battery charging.

Alcatel A3 XL does not present a Compass or Gyroscope sensor, It does not contain a Barometer or Temperature sensor, It offers an average resolution & pixel density ( 245 ppi ) which is not sufficient for a 6.0-inch screen, It offers a non-removable battery, It is low internal memory ( 8 GB ) and it supports 1.0 GB RAM only.