TCL-Alcatel was the world's 5th largest mobile phone vendor in Q4 2013. Some say it is the biggest handset brand you never heard of. Where is the firm strongest and weakest? How did it get here? Where is it headed next? Should rivals, like Apple, Motorola and Samsung, be worried?

Clients of our Wireless Device Strategies (WDS) research service can download additional analysis of TCL-Alcatel in this report here and this blog here.