Alcatel Idol 4S:come for the hot affordable phone, stay for VR

It's no longer enough to just sell a premium smartphone — even for a lot less than Apple and Samsung — with excellent performance and decent enough cameras.

People are demanding more. They want something beyond the phone experience. 

Some companies like LG, Lenovo and Google think the next big thing for phones is modularity. Samsung thinks it's mobile VR. So too does Alcatel, the TCL-owned company that tried to take on the smartphone kings last year with its excellent, budget-priced Idol 3.

While Alcatel isn't the first company to support mobile VR, it is the first company to sell the phone and the VR headset together in a bundle for an affordable $399.99 ($349.99 if you preorder), which it strongly believes is key to positioning itself as a leader not just in the smartphone space, but in the VR space as well. Read more...