Alcatel One Touch 501 Review

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Alcatel One Touch 501
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Sergiu.'s Review of Alcatel One Touch 501

27th Jun 2002

Overall Rating

0 stars
  • Value for money
    0 stars
  • Reception
    5 stars
  • Features
    4 stars
  • Style
    5 stars
Good Points

Cool, many features, small, good reception.


Bad Points

Bugs, unreliable, bad sound quality (see text).


General Comments

List of problems:
The battery sucked! It seems that Alcatel implemented a bad NiMH battery, I still had some hours of stand-by, but it died the instant you tried to place a call. After keeping it off for 15 minutes, I was able to speak for a couple of minutes. Anyway, the baterry life degraded day by day. As far as I know, the original Nokia NiMH batteries work much better (don't know about other companies).
The battery wasn't rigid, so it moved relative to the phone. This meant that the phone switched off now and then (a few times a day), in the middle of calls or in my pocket.
The joystick wasn't reliable, in about a couple of months it broke. Sometimes it worked well, sometimes not. The cursor could not be moved up (or it moved several positions at once).
Software bugs: (just one here) when a call was received, if the phone died out (see above), it wasn't placed in the missed calls list, so I had no clue who was calling.
In a beautiful afternoon, the phone died out and it's internal memory was reset, so I lost all the numbers... :(
In the week-end, my operator is using HR (Half-Rate) since the calls in the network cost only 1c/min. This phone was terrible then, the other party could not understand me. It seems that the middle of the words was not transmitted at all! Reception was ok though.
I have now a Panasonic GD93 and I am really satisfied with it!

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