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Alcatel has unveiled Android and Windows tablets and smartphones at CES today . The Pixi lineup - one of Alcatels mid tier sub brands is now even bigger thanks to Alcatels lineup which includes a Windows tablet - Pixi 3 (8) ,a Android tablet - Pixi 4 (7) and Android smartphones - Pixi 4 (6) (4) (3.5) . ALCATEL PIXI 3 (8) Alcatel Pixi 3 (8) is Alcatels first tablet running Windows 10 mobile . The OS - initially designed to run on Windows phone devices is now blown up to 8" and therefore it is not the same OS as its desktop counterpart so dont expect to run any major applications . The pixi 3 also has another achillies heel as it runs on a low end 1.3ghz  Quadcore Snapdragon 210 Soc which is designed on the somewhat outdated Cortex A7 platform .The Pixi 3 also has 1GB of ram ,32GB of expandable storage and it has 4G Lte support as well .The cameras on the tablet is  said to be 5MP and 2MP . The battery on the tablet is 4060mAh and as said previously it has a 8" displa...

Alcatel has a long history of launching a plethora of devices at the two main trade shows - CES and MWC . This year , the portfolio is a little bit shorter than previous years but surprisingly Alcatel has managed to grab some attention due to the launch of a new Smartwatch which , at $149 is quite a steal and a new line of affordable 4G capable smartphones that run three mobile operating systems with no change to hardware or price The new Pixi 3 series is Alcatel's latest attempt at launching affordable handsets , the phones are said to be OS -agnostic - which basically means the hardware has no speciality operating system . The phone series comes in 3.5" , 4.0" ,4.5" and 5.0" and the phone's have identical hardware which means production and research cost is quite less . Windows Phone 8.1 , Android 4.4 and Firefox OS are the three selected operating systems for the Pixi series .The 3.5" model however is restricted to 3G but the models with 4.0...