Posts Tagged ‘Alcatel’

Alcatel has been busy on the mobile phone front, and today the company passed its OT-880A slider, aka the Piano A, through the FCC.  The device has a sleek, curvaceous design that seems apt for the teenage crowd.

The Piano A boasts a better than average feature set that includes a media player, email client with support for Gmail, still and video camera, ebook reader and web browser.  Alcatel doesn’t have much of a presence in the US with its mobile phones, but the Piano A does support US GSM 850 and 1900 bands.

French telecommunications equipment vendor Alcatel passed the OT-800 tri-band mobile phone through the FCC today.  The device bears a slight resemblance to the BlackBerry, with a bit of Palm Centro thrown in for good measure.

Alcatel doesn’t have a huge presence with its mobile phones here in the United States, but the company is a large vendor of back-end networking equipment that may help it beef-up its presence in the mobile device market.