Although at the press conference last year Alcatel's leader has been talking about his company becoming one of the five largest manufacturers in a couple of years, we didn't see any sign of this at this year's congress. They won't have a press conference and the new handsets are not in a cool truck, but in a simple tent, which is in front of the largest hall.
Their products are of course only low-end handsets, but there are some more pleasant ones amongst them. One of these is the full touchscreen model called OT-707, but unfortunately there has been only a dummy available, we couldn't test it, but we have asked some questions. It's based on the MTK platform, although the screenshot glued to the dummy is from Windows Mobile. Its screen diagonal is 2.4", it has QVGA resolution, the camera's resolution is 1.3 megapixels and the fastest data transfer protocol supported is GPRS. As for multimedia it has an RDS FM radio and a music player, this latter one is playing tracks not from the 10 MB onboard memory, but from a microSD card (up to 4 GB). Launch date and pricing have not yet been revealed, according to a company representative they are negotiating with carriers across Europe.
Translated by Szaszati
