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. 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. 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. 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.

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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. The Alcatel Go Flip 4 is a classic phone for people who do not use social media and just want a basic phone to do their daily tasks. This is the phone worth considering for someone who misses the old flip phone but still wants a slightly-smart device.Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. See how we test. 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. Voice dialing is missing. At least you can define ringtones by caller, and use your own songs as ringtones if you like.

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For those who have never used a flip phone, it may take some time to get used to it. However, it won’t take long to navigate for users familiar with a flip device. 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 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. 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. 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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The Alcatel Go Flip 4 has 2.8 inches display with QVGA quality. We don’t expect a high-definition display, but given its tiny screen, we felt it’s bright and clear enough for a traditional phone with 320 x 240 pixels resolution.As a feature phone, Alcatel Go Flip 4 has a 2MP rear camera. Although we could not see the point, it offers a self-timer option like the smartphone since we won’t likely mount the device to a tripod. 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? The onboard music player, oddly, wouldn't play music I had stored on an SD card—I had to transfer it into internal memory. Once I did that, though, it had excellent support for metadata and album art. The video player can play videos from the SD card, but they look small and grainy on the low-res screen. There's also an FM radio, which sounds very clear.