Alcatel phones

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Alcatel phones, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 8 complaints

Opening search/URL input takes about 2 seconds; typing and scrolling lag badly2025-04-04
Shows a stale time for about six seconds before updating to the current time2023-09-14
Cannot remove a wallpaper icon from the lock screen2023-05-13
Lag on every action makes the phone feel slow to interact with2019-09-18
Phone slows until UI stops responding to events like starting calls, needs daily reboot2019-09-18
Basic phone experience is so bad the commenter lost interest2018-11-25
Elderly user struggles to open the flip phone and its buttons are too small2018-07-30
Unlock slide animation is jerky, does not track finger, and skips to end2015-03-01