Alcatel One Touch Easy DB Review

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Alcatel One Touch Easy DB
2.8 stars
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Bogdan Giurgiu.'s Review of Alcatel One Touch Easy DB

Overall Rating

1 stars
  • Value for money
    1.5 stars
  • Reception
    4.5 stars
  • Features
    2.5 stars
  • Style
    3.5 stars
Good Points

Relativly small
Good menus
Very strong signal
Good shock absorbant


Bad Points

The soft
The battery
The slim display


General Comments

The Alcatel OTE DB was my first mobile phone, two years ago. I was extremley pleased of it at first, for the standby time was exceeding 6 days, and the recharge time was about 1-2h. Then, one day, while in a mountain trip, i fell in a river and the phone got 'fishy'. After that, i dried it in the sun, and started it as nothing happened, but the standby reduced to 2-3 days :( After a month or two, the phone suddendly refused to start after a recharge. As it was still in the waranty period, they gave me another, wich worked like new. Then came a party, I got drunk and played football with the phone. Nothing bad happened to it. Then came the Easter, and i got drunk again, and because i had a hatered for that phone, i hit it on the table several times, holding it by the antenna, and again nothing happened. And one day, after a couple of weeks, it stoped defenetley. As it was no longer in waranty, i sold it to a sucker :)) for 20$ (the mainboard was fu__ed-up). Then i had a 5110, a motorola v3588, an ericsson 788, an t10, a siemens sl10 and now i have a siemens m35i, wich i intend to trade for a ericsson r320s.
What I ment is that the Alcatel OTE DB is a fine phone for the first users, and/or ladies, but for the 3 months or so of his lifetime. I have a lot of friends who reported battery or soft failure in short time, meaning the small standby time.
Attention! As i know, it is only one version of sft available for this phone, so it was never updated. The failure consists in showing the battery meter half or more, and if you make a call, it switches off.

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Members' Comments onBogdan Giurgiu.'s Review

  • Little G. on 1st Jan 2002

    WHY WOULD THIS PHONE ONLY BE GOOD FOR LADIES?? WE HAVNT GOT AS GOOD STANDARDS AS YOU MEN EH?? GROW UP, AND STOP BRAGGIN ABOUT HOW MANY PHONES YOU'VE HAD!!!

  • Mary. on 28th Nov 2002

    Maybe it's just show-offs that the phone doesn't work for. Grow up, reviewer. The content of this review was not only irrelevant - used simply to show off the reviewer's antics -But makes unwise generalisations about the mobile. Having used this model for 1-2 years (like many acquaintances), it never showed signs of fault, but provided an excellent and simple cellphone.

  • aurora. on 29th Dec 2002

    I liked the review and appreciated the reviewers' perspective and honesty.

  • baby g. on 26th Jan 2003

    May i ask why were you throwing your phone on the floor and i have a alcatel which has been droped a few times but surely i've never had to wait 2-3 days to recharge it again.