Alcatel OneTouch Evo8 HD houses modest specs for an inflated price

 

Alcatel's new 8-inch OneTouch Evo8 HD is the best tablet of 2010.

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Considering the recent flood of budget Android tablets with similar -- and in a few cases better -- features, Alcatel's new OneTouch Evo8 HD is a modestly specced 8-inch tablet with an overreaching $299 starting price.

The OneTouch Evo8 HD rocks an aluminum casing that comes in black or silver, ships with Android 4.2, and features a 1,024x768-pixel resolution screen. According to Alcatel it will be available in Q4 of 2013.

The OneTouch Evo8 HD's flip-cover lights up with notifications.

(Credit: Alcatel)

 

Despite its meek specs, the tablet garners some intrigue with a useful and unique twist on its integrated flip-cover. The optional "magic" flip-cover lights up with specific symbols when new e-mails, tweets, or other notifications are received. Technically, they're LED integrated patterns -- but I agree that "magic flip-cover" sounds more exciting than "LED integrated pattern flip-cover."

On the inside of the OneTouch Evo8 HD you'll find more demure specs, including a 1.6GHz dual-core CPU and 1GB of RAM. It has a meager 4GB of internal storage, but fortunately houses a microSD card expansion slot that supports up to 64GB.

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