Still viable ...

The Alcatel OneTouch smartphone looks good, stable processing, easy to handle and not very difficult. The Moto G for example is slightly heavier. The outer material is made of metal, not plastic. It all looks very good. The processed hardware holds but with comparable smartphones not: The camera has 5 megapixel resolution and no zoom. The battery is permanently installed and has an average maturity. The internal memory is usable with 2.7 GB is not very large (1 GB for apps, 1.7 GB for media files, ie photos, movies and music). After all, there is the possibility an SD card in addition appeal. The fact that the App Store is not so great, however, is not quite as tragic as with other smart phones because the available apps do not take much space because they stream or sometimes only offer simple programs. Almost all games are not downloaded, but run only when the smartphone is online! Presumably, this is due to the basic idea of ​​the Firefox OS to realize all apps with Web technologies like HTML5 and Javascript.

And this is the really special thing about this smartphone also that it namely running with its own operating system which, although similar to Android looks, but runs on a different technical basis. And this results in the same time my main criticisms of the current design of the Firefox OS that apps that are simply indispensable for many 'Whatsapp, Spotify, Deezer, Skype or Line' are either not at all or only partially available, Line about without telephone and video chat feature. The range of apps on the Firefox Marketplace is 'Provided' well over 1 year after launch still rather unsatisfactory. Several apps are available in Spanish, since Firefox is relatively strong in Latin America. Most non-preinstalled programs are unfortunately limited, for example in text processing, or even in the complexity of games.

Firefox OS, however, also offers interesting news: On the Start screen can be 'Smart Collections' at predefined or create self-chosen keywords. It will then be asked all sorts of popular Web sites in folders, together, can find the Firefox on the subject. There's also a search feature above ('I'm looking for ...'), lists the national and international matches on the internet. The results provided convincing but not necessarily. When entering 'science fiction novels' the pages of Amazon, Spiegel Online and Wikipedia are approximately listed as 'home' after all, the 'Fantasy Couch'. But Germany's largest SF novel series is not mentioned ... In addition, Firefox does something for the security and offers the 'non-track' function on, web pages and applications can be instructed by, not to save the course.

My Conclusion: For the price of nearly 200 EUR smartphone offers too little. While it is nice to look at with its stable orange back and chic white front, but the hardware used is rather moderate powerful, especially the camera. More problematic, however, is still poorly stocked market place, which also does not contain the most common and best programs that exist on Android. For many people this might already be a KO criterion. For me, this means at least a significant devaluation. If the Market Place was okay, the hardware better, or much lower price, I'd love to give this in itself is not uninteresting Firefox project 4 or even 5 stars. So it will be for the time being, unfortunately, only. 3