Music on your mobile doesn’t have to involve a pricey handset. Alcatel has just unveiled the OT-E801 mobile, a rubberised handset that’s available in black or white, and is aimed at music fans on pay-as-you-go tariffs.
The phone includes MP3-playing software, and comes with a 128MB memory card, capable of holding up to 50 tunes transferred from your PC or Mac. However, if you buy a bigger card, you can have up to 2GB of space for songs. But best of all – if you’re on a budget – is the price. It’ll cost you just £39.99 from Argos, Woolworths, T-Mobile and Orange shops.
Updated 8th June ‘07: Following the dozens of posts we’ve had about this phone, we asked Alcatel for some advice for those of you who are still having problems. To read what Alcatel had to say click here.
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i brought the phone and the memory card, 2 GB, i get to dowload from my computer songs but it won’t reproduce them, it’s like, he start to do it, but i can’t hear a thing… so, i was thinking that meyba only via headphone it would work, i try two different motorola hedaphones but still, haven’t listen a thing… this phone only works with alcatel headphones?!?!?
email me to frances.seiglie@infomed.sld.cu if you know anything please, becouse i’m returning it if it’s that way… i wanted to listen to music and looks like I can’t!
does anyone know where i can get earphones for an alcatel ot-c 701?
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im feed up with this fon i tried everything from manual to format anything that is posted on this site it took me a months searching but same thing happen, i hope those who write here and says that there fon works are not from ALCATEL. For sure they admit that there product works but the truth it sucks a lot..
since alcatel wont do a bloody thing about the lack of headphones for the ot e801
http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/gotastory/ please all go here and register a complaint and maybe we can get there arses kicked into sorting this problem out
hello. i bought this fon. at first i didnt know what to do to download mp3 songs but when i read the comments on how to download songs ( need to format sd card., etc ) i finally got songs from my pc.. the problem is..
the song is playing but i cannot hear any sounds.. can you please help me? email me jillannrepalda@yahoo.com ..
thankyou very much, folks.
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I just found another possible cause for problems with the mini-SD-card. At first I couldn’t find why my OT-E801 did not recognize my 1 GB card, or did not want to play the mp3’s that I succesfully copied from my PC to the card (with a card reader, not with the phone + USB).
Only then I found out that I inserted the mini-SD-card in the phone in the wrong way – upside down! I did not experience any difficulty doing that – the card just snugly snapped into place. So remember to place the card with the copper contacts UPWARDS (i.e. facing the keyboard) into the phone. The manual is not clear about that, neither the text nor the illustration.
go my computer and click SD/MMC(E:) then there make a new folder and put all your supportet mp3 in the folder.And when trying to play mp3 on your phons in such a way you will not get NO VALID FILES.