The Alcatel in association with ICE communication is bringing
up a new qwerty phone named “Alcatel Ice 3” in the Indian market.
The Ice 3 attracts women with its funky colors and cubic design.
The Ice 3 has good social networking features, a good 2.4” display,
music player with FM radio, Stereo Bluetooth, 2 MP camera, and
Opera Mini browser. Alcatel has plans to launch many handsets
in near future. The Alcatel Ice 3 is available at an affordable price of Rs.6600
Design
The Alcatel Ice 3 has unique “cube” design compared to all other phones.
The Ice 3 is refreshing and youthful. It comes in two bold colors namely
pink chrome and dark chrome. At one point, it some what look like a
tiny netbook with square display panel along square keyboard.
the body has metallic shiny appearance. Overall, we liked its design.
The Ice 3 has an external 1.1-inch OLED display, which resolution of 128×36 pixel.
The external display is oriented diagonally. It indicates the caller ID, time, date,
battery life and signal strength. You can just customize its backlight time and contrast.
When you flip open the phone, you will reveal a main display and a qwerty keyboard.
it sports a 2.4-inch TFT display, which has a resolution of 240×320 pixels (QVGA)
and supports 65,000 colors. the image quality is quite good, but not the greatest.
The keyboard is spacious. The keys are large and tactile those have proper
travel.
The typing is lot easy on this phone. The navigation array include a four
way toggle
with middle confirmation key, the two soft keys, the call/Send and End/Power key.
The toggle can be customized with user defined shortcuts.
Features
The Ice 3 has decent interface. The menu style, icon and folder types
look attractive.
The navigation in the phone is absolute breeze.
The connectivity features are more than adequate at its price range.
You can avail data transfer through Bluetooth with A2DP and USB v2.0.
can stream audioto Bluetooth headset wirelessly. The internet can
be accessed through GPRS and EDGE.
The main attraction of the Ice 3 is social networking. The Ice 3 is nicely
integrated with all popular social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter,
and Youtube. The qwerty keyboard is well made for this social networking.
Fortunately, it comes with built-in faster Opera mini browser.
That enhances the browsing experience. It also features WAP 2.0 browser.
The Alcatel Ice 3 comes with a good music player which supports various
Audio file formats such as MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, eAAC+ and eAAC.
The video player support MP4, H.263, 3GP video formats.
It also has FM radio with RDS feature. The interface is simple and
convenient. the player controls includes usual playlists, shuffle and
repeat. It comes with 80MB of internal memory and you can extend
the external memory up to 16GB in the form of the microSD card slot.
The Ice 3 is equipped with good 2 megapixel camera that captures
the images in the resolution of 1600 x 1200 Pixels. The camera features
digital zoom, and basic editing options like adjusting contrast, brightness.
You can record videos in this phone. It supports video calling feature.
You can share pictures and videos with the social networking sites l
ike Facebook and Youtube. The image quality is quite decent but the
video quality is mediocre.
The Ice 3 comes with sophisticated phonebook of 1000 entry with
provision for
caller groups. You can pair the contacts with ringtones, polyphonic
ringtones and a photo. You can customize the phone with the
several themes, wallpapers, graphics and sounds. The other
essential apps are converter, calculator, size converter, world clock,
To-do list, organizer, stopwatch, Alarm, calendar, speakerphone,
vibrate mode, text and multimedia messages. It supports almost all java games.
Performance
The call quality is pretty impressive. Even callers at another end also
don’t have any problem. The speakerphone quality is bit average.
The Alcatel Ice 3 is powered by 850 mAh Li-Ion battery. It offers
decent battery efficiency. It provides 9 hours of talktime, 490hours
on standby and 35 hours of continuous music play.
Alcatel ICE3 Features
- Full Keyboard
- Clamshell design
- 2.4 inch TFT 65k color display
- 2 mega pixel camera with Video Recorder and Image editor
- MP3 Player&
FM Radio RDSFM Radio RDS - Music playback time up to 35hours
- Internal memory 80MB and Micro SD card up to 8GB
- GPRS, EDGE
WAP 2.0WAP 2.0 , Bluetooth stereo 2.0 (A2DP)- USB 2.0 high speed
JAVA MIDP 2.0JAVA MIDP 2.0 - Battery - Lithium Ion 850 mAh
- Standby time: up to 450h
- Talk time: up to 9h
Alcatel ICE3 Price and Availability
The ICE3 is available in two color variants in pink chrome and dark
chrome. The handset is priced at Rs.6600 and will be distributed by
ICE Mobile network systems.
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