Alcatel, a multinational mobile phone brand owned by TCL Corporation, has finally launched its much awaited smart and feature phones in Pakistan.
The company plans to make smartphones, feature phones, tablets and broadband devices available for Pakistani consumers.
A press briefing and dealers meet was held this weekend in Lahore to announce the availability of Alcatel devices in Pakistan in partnership with i2, a local distributor.
Mr. Farhan Khan, Country Manager Alcatel Pakistan took the stage and briefed the media regarding the products and services offered by Alcatel.
Alcatel’s General Manager for Middle East, Pakistan and Egypt Mr. Nauman Durrani shared the information about global presence of brand. He claimed that Alcatel is the 5th largest mobile phone brand in the world and it’s doing far better than other Chinese brands in European markets.
Mr. Durrani said that Alcatel operates with 23 R&D facilities and 21 factories across the globe.
He said that Alcatel sees Pakistan as a high growth market. “With 3G and 4G penetration our aim would be to connect Pakistani’s with the best in class innovative mobile devices at affordable prices”, said Nouman Durrani.
While replying to a media question, Nouman said that Alcatel is confident to beat the competition within a year or two and become Pakistan’s no. 1 brand.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Waqas Nasir, Head of Marketing i2 Pakistan, stated “Alcatel as a brand resonates deeply with consumers since its inception in France in 1872 and its long history in the telecommunications industry. We are pleased to officially introduce to our customers their latest innovative smartphones and feature phones with affordable pricing options.”
He further stated “For the last 28 years we have been serving our customers in the Middle East and Pakistan with the best services available globally. Customer satisfaction and facilitation is our top priority and this partnership has been established with the aim of improving customer services.”
Here are the phone models that Alcatel has launched in Pakistan:
Alcatel Idol 3
Alcatel Pop Up
Alcatel Pop Star 4G
Alcatel Pop Star 3G
Alcatel 20.04
Alcatel 20.07
Alcatel 10.50
The event concluded with a musical night arranged for more than 400 mobile dealers in Punjab region.
We will soon review the devices from Alcatel, so keep watching this space if you’re interested to know more about this brand.
Prices are too damn high, good luck being no. 1 brand.
any advantage of a phone being reversible?
ease of use?
You can enable 360° rotation on most rooted phones. What I like that I don’t have to fumble with my phone to straighten it when I take it out of my pocket. I can just start using it in any orientation.
I don’t agree. First people are used to put phone in same orientation in their pocket every time so it’s always straight when they take it out
second. mic is always down and front/back cam are always above so you have to straighten up anyway if you want to listen to call or take a picture. Also power and volume buttons stay at same place
Finally! I was looking into their phones a while back and, gotta say, the Idol 3 is one of the most beautiful phones to date.
Infinix zero 3 is better. This set is good but overpriced.
While I agree infinix phones are good in their own regard, the two phones don’t even fall into the same category.
i have brought redmi 2A from china .,. really phone really very good .. but problem is having 3g issue and mmi code invalid .. and price is 15 K .. with 2gb ram .. 16 gb internal .. dpi more than 400 and 720p display & mega pixel cam..
Please benoted, Redmi Note phone are top class in the world but make sure 3G/4G in Pakistan supports FDD LTE, not TD LTE.
wait a second …. PTA have BANNED XIAOMI imports … how’d you get your phone in ?
please TELL !
Ap pocket mein le ke aa sakte without box
right … as in , if you’ve purchased it while YOU were in china YOURSELF ?
yea u can bring via hand-carriage.
nice
Looking Forward to Alcatel’s Flip Phones…
just launch the 4s with finger print plz !
Basic and much needed information is altogether have been hidden, the RAM and ROM & OS versions
No 1 brand bulshit, have used this brand earlier worst user interface faced ever