Having had a number of Sagem phones, I thought it was only fair to give one of the models from Alcatel a try. Although Alcatel recently disbanded their mobile phone division, they certainly used to be the closest competitor to Sagem, especially in their native France. Part of the Thomson group, which in turn appears to be owned by American giant General Electric, Alcatel have been making telephones of one sort or another for years, so it is only natural that they should have progressed to the mobile phone genre in the 1990s. Upon the launch of France’s first mobile phone network in 1993, Alcatel had several models ready, and in 2003 they launched their first phone with ..  Read the complete review