Basic functions
The 128 x 160 pixels large display is no big deal either in size or resolution, but at least it’s a TFT. There are four color themes, but if we want to see something from the menus, then we should choose the yellow-black one. The main menu, with its 12 icons, will be a great challenge for users who are used to other kinds of phones, as the dark icons are hard to figure out and we can’t always match a function to them without any help. There are, however, no problems with speed; everything happens at once, the menu is fast, we just have to keep focused even on navigation, due to the keypad layout.
The phonebook is quite all right, we can store 800 entries in it, the groups are on a separate tab, navigating around is easy. The contacts can have three phone numbers, a fax number, email address, birthday, picture and ringtone. Alcatel is one of the few manufacturers who are capable of offering browsing between SIM contacts, immediately after turning on the phone. We can often see, even at renowned brands, a “please wait, initializing SIM card” message or something like that. Another feature characteristic of Alcatel is that the phonebook always opens up where we have closed it last time, which is not a big thing, but it’s extremely useful, although only those can understand this who have been using an Alcatel handset for a time.
Messaging is rather basic, we have only SMS and MMS. We can store about 500 text messages; with 15 stored SMS messages the memory was 3% full. Word prediction is not T9 this time, but Smart ABC, which might cause us problems, but it can fortunately be turned off. The maximum size of MMS messages is 300KB, which is quite surprising from a phone in this price category. Multimedia content is stored on the 10 MB of internal memory, and I just sit and think if this is really the phone that is sold for €75 EUR in prepay package.
At the calendar we are thrown back to the hard reality, as we only have month view. There is one kind of entry, this can have a duration, a name and repetitive alarm. The alarm clock’s five alarm times are more than enough; the calculator’s circular graphics remind us of Vertu models; there is a unit converter, but the greatest surprise was with the Dictaphone. I see that it can record directly to the memory card, and recorded length is determined only by free space, but we can even choose what format to record to: AMR or WAV.
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