Is Alcatel OneTouch really planning to launch a Windows Phone-based 10-inch tablet?

Alcatel was at IFA 2014 to launch new Android devices, primarily the Hero 2 smartphone and the Hero 8 tablet, they have future plans for tablets running the Windows Phone OS.



“Rumour has it that the Windows Phone is going to be available on tablet kind-of form factor on ARM chipset, and we are going to be first in doing that. For example we are developing a 10 inch tablet which has this Magic Flip technology for the keypad with track pad.” Dery told freelance journalist Tim Anderson.



Dery had high praise for Windows Phone, complimenting not only the aesthetics of its user interface, but also its excellent performance on lower-end hardware. "There is a big advantage which is the memory footprint," he said. "This OS is meant to run with rather low memory, which is not the case in Android... Android is fantastic but in some countries, the day you switch it on, you download a size[able number] of apps and services which obviously has a toll on the memory footprint, on the processing capability. That's less the case on Windows Phone."



Alcatel OneTouch launched a windows phone 7.8 back in 2012, but pull back from the platform when WP8 launched.