Alcatel OT-983 - user opinions and reviews

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Wow, just picked this up as a spare phone as I don't want to take my nexus 4 out training (swim/bike/run). What a fantastic phone, £50 from tesco (prepay locked to orange). Very responsive, great experience.

Camera is great (for the money, poor if you compare to high end devices). Screen is pretty good also (not sure about direct sunlight yet).

Only down side I've found so far is that there's not much space for apps. Only about 140mb of storage total in the phone (but mine came with 2gb sd). Once Google/Facebook/Twitter/Maps/etc are installed and the junk removed you've only got 37mb to play with!

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  • 2013-05-22 16:07
  • nFRN
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This little smartphone is amazing. Apart from you need a Google account for many of the apps. Only thing I don't like is the battery life is easy to use up

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  • 2013-05-21 17:50
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i am an 11 year old girl who has always been picked on for having a terrible phone. But just yesterday i had the phone of my dreams, the samsung galaxy mini. somehow, i managed to break that phone on the same day i bought it. So now its up to me to save up for a new phone. I saw this one and i fell in love. it is so cheap, and should only take me about a month to get £50. lets hope the price doesnt go up!

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  • 2013-05-19 11:27
  • pJE2
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A good phone, great quality for the money. It does exactly what the more expensive phones do, just at a cheaper price.

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  • 2013-05-08 18:17
  • 3Hxx
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is it play high quality movies........! can we do vlc media player in it......?

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  • 2013-05-05 18:21
  • sytI
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This a brilliant little phone,im still finding my way about but cant fault it yet,i have had it for just over a week and it has more than lived up to my expectations.The on board memory is not brill,but i bought a 32gb class 10 sdc card and have loads of room for apps etc.love the fact that its so fast.i would definitely recommend this phone.The cost is very low compared to some other android phones.you cant go wrong.

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  • 2013-05-04 13:10
  • pKiC
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This is a great phone for the price - let down by not enough on board memory. I would have happily spent another 10 pounds extra just to get at least 500mb of memory. You just can't install many apps because the phone is constantly saying low memory. Even if you root it and move all the apps to the sd card (which I have) it still complains.
Negatives aside, it's a great little phone, fast, well built, and has a decent screen for the price range. If all you want is a phone to make calls etc, this is perfect. But if you like to install lots of apps that do all sorts of things, this phone might struggle...

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  • 2013-04-01 00:34
  • nE6V
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This is a great phone for the price - let down by not enough on board memory. I would have happily spent another 10 pounds extra just to get at least 500mb of memory. You just can't install many apps because the phone is constantly saying low memory. Even if you root it and move all the apps to the sd card (which I have) it still complains.
Negatives aside, it's a great little phone, fast, well built, and has a decent screen for the price range. If all y

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  • 2013-04-01 00:29
  • nE6V
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> In reply to Archangel @ 2013-01-06 00:53 from 3Jav - click to readOMG fantastic phone!! Its ridiculously fast for the price AMD exceptional build quality BUT the headphone and speaker quality is shocking. ..the volume would go from. Quiet to stupidly loud and deafen you with head phones and speaker and with headphones its doesn't give you equalizer or the lefty eighth effect which makes your music sound bad.

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  • 2013-03-26 18:04
  • nxUg
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> In reply to balooon @ 2012-11-28 12:17 from t7X2 - click to readi don't care about no flash!

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  • 2013-03-16 11:02
  • nGmf
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I think I prefer this phone over the iPhone 3GS. This has a 1GHz processor, and 512MB RAM, for a decent price of about $70, or less, I guess? I would highly recommend this phone for anyone looking for a budget smartphone with good quality. It also has a 3.5in display, which is the same display length of the iPhone 4. The only downside of a phone of this category is the pixel density, which is 165ppi. Maybe if they could make it a bit higher, and bump the price up a bit, this phone would become an instant bestseller for those people who can't afford a high-end smartphone such as the Samsung Galaxy SIII or what.

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  • 2013-02-08 16:35
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For the price this phone is unbeatably good. Apps run fast, overall everything works well. Camera is definitely not great but for this price very good. Battery life (with battery saver app running) is also great.

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  • 2013-02-07 13:03
  • njbY
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I really like this phone, considering the fact that it was affordable and has good performance. I would definitely recommend this phone to someone looking for an affordable smartphone :)

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  • 2013-01-20 19:02
  • m5L%
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> In reply to Anonymous @ 2012-12-04 01:04 from BwdE - click to readI have got the same problem.It's very annoying to hear yourself in the speaker. Have you sorted the problem out?

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  • 2013-01-14 23:13
  • 3Jhr
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I would take the 983 over the galaxy ace - the camera is 3.15 with standard android on screen features, but the 1gb progessor makes apps and browsing exceptionally fast easily as good as the iphone 3gs if not better. Still can't believe how good this phone is for the price, have had it for three weeks now and not a single issue or bug. Fantastic!!

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  • 2013-01-12 05:12
  • njxg
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I originally wanted to get the Alcatel OT 983 but then I saw the Samsung galaxy ace and I'm wondering which is better. You see I would need a good camera which the ace has (5mp) and good Internet and app view. But I don't know if the Alcatel is good enough for what I want.

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  • 2013-01-06 13:56
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> In reply to biscuits1234 @ 2012-12-30 13:35 from JChN - click to readAwesome little phone,hard to beat for the price. Anyone had problems with the speakers? I have it at full with earphones!

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  • 2013-01-06 00:53
  • 3Jav
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this phone is a bargain its very good and ur right if it was made buy someone else would cost well over £100, its better than my old galaxy ace and alot faster, who cares if its got 150 mg of space everything goes straight to sd card anyway so its never really touched, a must buy before it goes up to £99.99 :-)

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  • 2012-12-30 13:35
  • JChN
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Got this handset for £40 on O2 at Christmas, didn't have high hopes but I have blown away by this phone - excellent solid build quality, clear bright screen, lightning fast operation, responsive screen and buttons. The camera is quite low spec but still works perfectly fine. If this phone was made by one of the bigger manafacturers it could sell for two or three times this price and would still be excellent value! RECOMMEND!!!

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  • 2012-12-29 01:17
  • njxg
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too little internal memory, a 5 Mp camera & a 720p video camera would perfect this phone. I would rather pay a higher price than to buy a inferior spec phone at today standard.

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  • 2012-12-26 07:47
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Total of 31 user reviews and opinions for Alcatel OT-983.