This article is more than 1 year old

Alcatel OT-808 fashion phone

Qwerty clamshell with text appeal

The focus on social networking is apparent, with dedicated Facebook and Twitter widgets, along with an instant messenger tool, Palringo, which connects to any existing messenger service you already use. The simple and user-friendly widgets show their worth, with faster access to the pages and the ability to leave them open in the background. Therefore, less time for loading and more time for stalking, ahem, I mean, browsing.

Alcatel OT-808

Handbag friendly

The device comes with Opera Mini 4 installed and a heap of useful bookmarks. Yet it lacks 3G connectivity so browsing can be tediously slow. Relying on the micro USB headphone input, the hands-free was a horrible experience. The headphones supplied are tinny, uncomfortable and certainly not an encouragement to use the FM radio widget.

There is stereo Bluetooth, so you have an alternative and this worked well enough with an Novero headset and you can choose to allow closed clamshell operation too. Like the supplied headphones though, playback through the music player was equally dreadful with a limited frequency response, reminiscent of listening to the music your bank pipes down the phone when putting you on hold. It does, however, play MP3, WMA and AAC music files.

The media player also handles H.263, H.264 and MPEG-4 video, which was crisp on its vibrant and reasonably sized 2.4in 320 x 240 display. You can store your movies on an external Micro SD slotting in behind the battery, as there’s only 80MB of internal storage which is only adequate size for photos and footage taken with the device.

The camera captures 2Mp images and 3gp video, with results exactly as you would expect, looking good on the phone display but not so good once on the desktop. These features are great if you want to attach their exports to an MMS, or remember something from a messy evening. Alcatel even provides a suite of software to hook up to a Windows PC and sync it up, along with an OS updater utility, which was a bit of a surprise.

Alcatel OT-808
Next page: Verdict

More about

TIP US OFF

Send us news


Other stories you might like