The Alcatel OT-990 is an average priced smartphone that offers some very exciting features, so how will it compare to the other smartphones on the market today.The OT-990 sports a 3.2 inch capacitive touchscreen that is quite responsive to commands. Underneath the unit is a physical home button that slightly sticks out from the phone, this will give you some light from your device when you are in dark places.Inside Alcatel OT-990 You can find: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, HSDPA 900 / 2100, HSDPA 850 / 1900, Android OS, v2.2 (Froyo), 600 MHz, Accelerometer, compass, SMS(threaded view), MMS, ...

Alcatel offers the Venture to Virgin Mobile’s prepaid crowd, an Android smartphone that includes a QWERTY keyboard, Gingerbread, and a 2-megapixel camera. Here’s Phone Scoop’s full review of this $99, no-contract smartphone. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Virgin Mobile USA recently began accepting preorders for the Venture, a monoblock Android smartphone that includes both a full QWERTY keyboard and a 2.8-inch touch display. The phone is made by Alcatel One Touch and distributed by PCD. The Venture also includes a 600MHz processor, Bluetooth 3.0, a 2-megapixel camera with LED flash, microSD support up to 32GB, Wi-Fi, GPS, and speakerphone. It runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread and costs $99. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Orange UK has listed the new Alcatel mobile phone, the Alcatel OT-355, which is the design resembles the previous model, the Alcatel OT-255.The handset is a budget phone with a QWERTY keyboard and a small color screen.Alcatel OT-355 phone is equipped with 0.3 megapixel camera, microSD card slot (up to 4GB), music player, and FM tuner with support for RDS. The battery is enabling up to 9 hours in talk time, up to a week of standby time. There is not reported on pricing but offers the Alcatel OT-355 to Pay As You Go ...

French vendor Alcatel Lucent running LTE trial in rural Wales in 800MHz band already vacated by digital switchover.The UK’s first rural Long Term Evolution (LTE) trial has kicked off in the Preseli Mountains in West Wales to evaluate whether ’4G’ LTE is economically and technically viable for rural areas with no broadband coverage, or with broadband speeds lower than 2Mbps.The three-month pilot is being carried out by telecoms equipment vendor Alcatel Lucent and communications technology provider and media services company Arqiva.The trial uses the 800MHz spectrum band, ...

The Alcatel OT-880 is an advanced type of smartphone. Alcatel goes a step further and aims at the user that wants to get the most value for his money with the Alcatel OT-880 Crossover Experience. And he also gets more than he would normally expect. What to think of a Smartphone with a touch screen and a complete QWERTY keypad? The combination of both is equal to having the best of both worlds, at least in the experience of the basic level consumer that has both for the first time. In any case, the Alcatel OT-880 Smartphone offers flexibility and makes it possible to update social networks ...

We will highlight a few Alcatel Smartphone. Such as the new Alcatel Touch Experience, or Alcatel OT-710, a new Smartphone from Alcatel which emphasizes Fun and Experience. The Alcatel OT-710 is a cheap alternative for a Smartphone, but is equipped with a relatively large display. This is obviously not a high-end cell phone, but that is also not the part of the market that Alcatel is focusing on, or hoping to claim a market share of. The Alcatel OT-710 Touch Experience will be successful for its price / quality ...

Next to a large pile of cell phones that were already available on the market last year, we still saw a nice series of Alcatel Smartphones in a small demo space in the Mobile World Congress complex. According to a spokesperson from TCT Mobile, especially the Alcatel One Touch Tribe and the One Touch Mini were successful last year. To match this success a bit, TCT Mobile introduced a new series of Alcatel cell phones. Alcatel’s most important spearheads are an excellent price /quality ratio, user-friendliness, and a unique design. But aren’t these the features that every cell ...