Overall, we feel that the Ultra is a good step forward for Alcatel, a company that hasn't brought a phone with premium features to market in several years.
"When employer-provided health insurance is gone and you're looking at spending hundreds of dollars a month that you don't have on apremium, your first priority is going to be putting food on the table, not buying insurance, " says Arnott.
To whatever extent BitTorrent can build a reputation as a legitimate media distribution platform, it doesn't help that its premium brand is The Pirate Bay, a file-search portal that declines to identify or filter out content that is shared without rights-holder permission.