Alcatel One Touch E801 is a stylish and easy to operate mobile phone that will not provide you advance features but all the basic features of a mobile phone you will get in this. It is very slim with size 45 x 96 x 18 mm and weighs 76g only. A 650 Li-ion mAh standard battery that has capacity to work up to 250 hours in standby mode and talk time up to 10 hours powers Alcatel One Touch E801. Alcatel One Touch E801 battery takes 105 minutes to full charge.

The Alcatel One Touch E801 comes with CSTN 65K colors display with resolution of 128 x 128 pixels, which is standard resolution for a small mobile phone like this. A nice numeric keypad is just placed below the display and easy to press keys you can comfortably dial the numbers and send SMSs to your family an dfriends.

Alcatel One Touch E801 supports for Dual-band GSM 900/ GSM 1800 MHz. It comes with a massive SD card that allows to store plenty of things (Wallpapers, MP3s, Screensavers and ringtones). It plays MP3 files, you just connect your phone to PC with USB cable and activate the connection in the phone menu. It can only play mp3 files. No wma, aac, wav or whatever else, but the good thing is that they can be of any bit rate.

Other features of One Touch E801 are Vibration alert, SMS, Games, T9, Calculator, built-in speaker and a phonebook where you can store up to 250 records.

MP3 files cannot be played on the speaker. Only using the headphones. This is a big dissapointment for every new customer looking at this phone. But if you consider the fact how cheap the phone is and the fact that the quality of the headphones is good than it can be justified.

Alcatel HC 1000 is a single band (GSM 900) mid range mobile phone, which is launched by Alcatel in 1997. It is not comfortable to hold because it is too wide at 143 x 60 x 23mm and also feels bulky at 172g. In mobile one of the most important part normally people see that screen display. HC 1000 offers Alphanumeric Monochrome display with the resolution of 32 x 96 pixels, which is not a high resolution, but normal for low end cell phones.

For giving you attention to some one calling you it has Monophonic but nice ring tones, which can be set as different volume levels through the menu of cell phone. If you do not keep memorize and you feel uncomfortable to dial each time a long 10 digit numbers, don't worry, Alcatel HC 1000 provide a spacious phone book where you can keep 100 records of numbers and names of your friends or families. It also allows user to send text message via SMS facility of the phone.

In addition to these stunning features Alcatel HC 1000 also offers Built-in clock, alarm and Vibration alerts. If you are game lover you may feel disappointed because it doesn't provide any game, for this you should buy a high-end mobile phone. Powered by 600 mAh NiMH standard battery Alcatel HC 1000 gives up 28 hours of standby time and 80 min of talk time. Battery takes 60 minutes to full charge.

In conclusion, Alcatel HC 1000 is a easy to operate a startup mobile phone that will suit to user who just want a mobile phone for their normal daily use, they don't need funky features like camera, tri-band, mp3 etc.

The only downside of this mobile is it is heavy, but its black color will appeal you.