Alcatel unveiled five new phones last month, and today, it’s announcing that two of them are headed to the United States: the Alcatel 1X and the Alcatel 3V. Of the two, the 1X is the more exciting — it’s one of the very first phones to run Android Go, Google’s new streamlined version of Android designed to perform better on low-end hardware.

The 1X will sell for under $100 (I’m going to go ahead and guess that means $99.99, but Alcatel isn’t giving specifics), which puts it squarely in the budget phone arena. But for as cheap as the price is, the phone itself isn’t missing that many modern accommodations. It runs Oreo, it has a fingerprint sensor on the back, and it has a tall, 18:9 screen. It’s not a beautiful screen (it’s 5.3 inches,…

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