Alcatel 1 2021 Volcano Black 5" 8GB 4G Unlocked & SIM Free Smartphone

The phone arrived wrapped in bubble wrap so I was expecting it to have some signs of usage. Quite surprised and delighted to find it looks like a brand new phone without a mark on it. The battery is 5 years old but is easily replaced which is a good feature of this phone

Hard to use the touch screen as not very responsive, expected better for a modern phone, even if it is cheap. After less than a year then battery expanded and pushed the screen out. Its still working but not great.

Nice sized basic starter smartphone. Very easy to set up and use. Good graphics. Takes good quality photos and screenshots. Would recommend buying extra memory card to boost speed of apps but overall very pleased.

A good little phone that does everything I need it to do without taking forever.. Itcan handle the few apps I need and the battery lasts me 2 days. And my Internet connection is much stronger and more stable since swapping to this phone.'Android go' controls storage on the phone and keeps it running smoothly.Please note that I am a basic user so I am not bothered about the sound through headphones being poor. The rear camera is terrible. I struggled to get a clear picture of my driving licence, and the internal storage is small. But it's also compact, easy to use and at £60 I'm not to bothered when the inevitable happens and It gets dropped and broken.

Little, light and flimsy also quite slow... press the button and wait for it to catch up but it's only for emergencies so will do the job fine

i bought this phone to replace a very crap pay as you go phone and to be honest its the best 60 quid iv spent this year. added a 128 gig sd card so lots of space in there and took all the tv go and prime vid apps i threw at it. screen size and quality is great. easy to set up and comes with some good built in apps. also camera is a massive improvement on the older alcatel phone i had. bought it with the recomended case and screen protector and looks fab.connects to 4g without a problem so its pretty quick. great little phone for the money. well impressed.

For a start this can barely run anything without constant gaps in it processing.Like a simple solitaire app can barely run.Then this phone is not compatible with biometrics with banking's apps or other apps using this type of process.Then I can not login into my Deliveroo account now becuase is it so slow it can not do the video approval becuase it takes to long to load and process that the time limit of 15 seconds is up before it is even begun doing the process and now losing a days wage each day and needed to work to buy a new phone that does work but now am locked out until I can borrow someone else's phone and unfortunaly for myself, the only friend that could have helped, their phone has suddenly stopped working and switching on so I a screwed.Even if you do not need these functions this is not a phone you buy because you only want a simple phone.This is so slow that even simple functions do not work properly and is so slow that it would be far more stressful to use and the simple factor is completely loss... a simple phone should just do those simple things and be responsive so it remains simple.But texts some times disappear instead of sending... you will get a text notification at times and then not actually get the text until 10 minutes later.It's a nightmare to use.The battery also does not last that long for a simple device.As for value for money, even though it is very cheap, you pay a lot for that cheapness and if you spent another £20, you would have something 20 times better.So value for money is poor also

This phone is the worst piece of technology ever invented. It has almost no storage ( I had maybe 4 apps and could not store any whatsapp videos) and paralyses the entire phone until you delete storage. The phone cannot be used until you delete and this will happen 4 times a day despite deleting lots. It is incredibly slow, it forgets one app or page when you move to another and come back. Everything must be reloaded. It is quite simply appalling. It's battery life is pathetic.I bought a different Alcatel for similar price a few years ago and it worked fine. I don't know how they came up with this monstrosity.