A budget phone with excellent features (Alcatel One Touch Easy db)

Member Name: boydy

Product:	Alcatel One Touch Easy db
Date:	18/02/01 (352 review reads)
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Advantages: Wide variety of features, customisable menus, ability to use AAA batteries

Disadvantages: Flimsy battery case, buttons not too intuitive

Although not the most attactive phone on the market, this phone offers a great range of features for the price you pay!

Advantages include:

+ A loudspeaker function, which can be useful when you're in the car or when a group of people want to speak at once, and the soundquality from the speaker is suprisingly clear, although the sound for the caller at the other end is apparantly not so clear (according to friends whom I have used the loudspeaker function with).

+ Time and date display, and a reminder facility which sounds an alarm and displays an alert at a set time and date, this even works when the phone is switched off!

+ The ability to use AAA batteries (smaller batteries, found in newer remote controls), useful for when you don't have access to your phone charger.

+ The menus are customisable, so you can have your most accessed menus appear as soon as the menu button is pressed.


Dissadvantages include:

- The buttons are a little fiddly (especially the side scroll buttons) and not too intuitive to use.

- The battery compartment is a little flimsy and has become loose on both of my phones now (had to have the first one replaced).


Overall, if you can't afford a flashy phone, but still want some useful features, this is probably your best bet!

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