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Alcatel One Touch Idol 4S, packaging will be a card box for the virtual reality

Many companies encourage you to recycle packaging in which a product is delivered, but it appears that Alcatel has a solution entirely new and original to the problem. The packaging of the impending Alcatel OneTouch Idol 4S fact can be used as a viewer for virtual reality thanks to an approach similar to that of Google Cardboard.


VentureBeat spoke who managed to get information on new models of smartphones Alcatel. The box of OneTouch Idol 4S is made of polycarbonate and inside it has two lenses, a slot for storing your device and a single button to select items on the screen. It is the most advanced solution from a technological point of view, however, does his duty once you put the smartphone in it.

Alcatel OneTouch Idol 4S will not be, however, an explosive device at the technical level, and we wonder how it will behave with the highest computational loads required for the virtual reality rendering. The device will occupy the mid-range with a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 652 and a Full HD display of 5.5 ". It will be sold for less than $ 400, according to sources, a relatively affordable price even if we consider the inclusion of VR viewer.

Virtual reality is not, however, compatible only with video games. More and more applications and services offer a 360 ° video easily managed with a VR viewer: for example we find them on YouTube and Facebook, and several filmmakers, as well as companies such as Google and The New York Times, are taking to the field by offering their creativity with "navigable" content. Idol 4S should be released in May, but to date we do not know if we'll have to try it, along with his viewer, at Mobile World Congress.

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