Alcatel OT-980

Alcatel launches into the fray with Android EO-980

With its slider format and BlackBerry touch screen, the Alcatel OT-980 Aboard Android 2.1.

This first Android mobile 2.1 Alcatel is distinguished by its size slider with touch screen and qwerty keyboard physics. Rather successful for a first try.

Presented by Alcatel MWC Barcelona, the mobile OT-980 is good, as we foresaw. The first smartphone Android manufacturer. To differentiate themselves while enjoying Motorola, the appeal of air created by the operating system from Google, Alcatel offers this phone with an original format. Indeed, OT-980 is a mobile sliding qwerty keyboard and touch screen, similar to the more traditional BlackBerry, even at Palm Pre. Above all, this device, shown today in Android version 1.6 will be released with version 2.1 (Eclair) mobile operating system from Google and comes with a week of pre-installed applications, such Deezer (music Streaming) Or Layar (augmented reality).

A limited level of equipment

Available in cherry red and silver color, OT-980 is compatible Edge and 3G +. It features Bluetooth 2.0, the Wi-Fi 802.11b / g and embeds 70 MB internal memory which can be extended to 16GB with a MicroSD card. Its screen does not exceed 7 inches diagonal and the 2 megapixel camera sensor (with video capture though). According to Alcatel, its autonomy as high as 6 hours of talk 3G and 35 hours music playback.

The commercialization of the OT-980 is scheduled in the month of July in France. As for his greatest asset is probably its very affordable price: around 200 euros in bare version.