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Alcatel's new OT-S211 is a low-end cell phone with an FM receiver.

It has a small 1.5" color display, no camera, no Bluetooth, and comes with the usual set of basic applications like calculator, alarm clock and phone book for up to 250 contacts. There's also T9 support and a game.

Pricing and availability details are currently unknown.

Specifications for the Alcatel OT-S211:

• Network: GSM 900/1800MHz;
• Data: GPRS;
• Size: 98 x 44 x 12.

As promised a couple of months ago, Alcatel has once again entered the U.S. market with two very basic handsets.

They are E206a and E227a and available through Locus Telecom along with its prepaid Q2 Wireless service for "students, seniors, and trendsetters".

Definitely not the best entrance, if you ask me...

Orange subscribers now can get the new low-end Alcatel OT-E227 Clamshell Phone on a pre-pay basis for only USD$19.61, if you load it with credits worth USD$19.63, of course.

The phone looks fashionable and offers a choice of three colors including metallic rose, glossy black and fuchsia with flower pattern.

Check out one of the most basic and simplest cell phone models to date. The new Alcatel OT-E221do is a low-tech budget handset lacking in multimedia features. Of course, it's not free, as you can still make calls and send text messages.

The Alcatel OT-E221 comes in hot pink, black, glossy blue and vibrant orange colors, and will be available from Woolworths in September for just GBP14.

Profits of Alcatel Inc. dropped 42 percent because sales of wireless network decreased. The company net income is just $194 million after a profit of $334 million a year-ago. Annual income increased 1.4 percent year-over-year from $4.13 billion in 2005 to $4.19 billion for the same period in 2006. Sales slipped from last year's 1.372 billion to $1.249 billion. Serge Tchuruk, Alcatel's chief executive officer stated that the decrease in earnings was partly because Alcatel's customers were not eager to buy third-generation network equipment before the close of the French company's acquisition of Lucent Technologies Inc.