Alcatel One Touch Easy DB

This Alcatel One-Touch dB Easy mobile phone isn't 'sexy', it's cute. A good basic phone that does all I ask of it (if you want a multitude of tunes, buy an MP3 player!). Outstanding standby time (I charge it once a week for around 45 mins). I've dropped it several times and apart from minor marks on the casing, it shows no signs of damage. Not tiny, but feels good in the hand.

Keep it away from the microwave

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.

Overall, i think that this phone is quite good, if your the kind of person who is looking for a simple phone that works and is affordable.

If your looking for a little innovation in your handphone, then stay away from this phone.

Nothing is perfect except the Alcatel Easy Touch DB.

I 've had other mobile phones but this one is special. Easy to deal with, bright colour (mine is orange/red), when I have it on my desk everybody wants to look at it - I am very happy to have bought this mobile phone. I reccomended it.

Nothing Specific. Only that I read somewhere it also has a vibrator. How do I enable that?

I like the way that it hides messages so people can't read them when you dont want them to. It's lightweight so it doesn't weigh me down, but it doesnt fall out of my pocket either.

I'm glad that I've bought it, because it's cheap, and because sometimes, when i get drunk, I throw it on the floor and it still works! thats all folks...

I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. It's so hard to use and I'm really disappointed. It's no exaggeration when I say that it dents your fingers when you press the up and down buttons. The only half good thing is the 'speaker phone' facility!!!

I curse the day I bought this fone. There is nothing good to say about this fone. But then again there is nothing good to say about alcatel now is there? They should stick to making telecommunication equipment that do not have the word "mobile phone" in them.