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The only physical controls are a power button on the left-hand side, and a volume-adjustment button on the other. Otherwise you control the handset via the 61mm (2.4-inch) resistive touchscreen, and the touch-sensitive area below the display. This area features blue LED lights that form various patterns depending on which part of the user interface you're in. That's about as flashy as this handset gets.
The OT-708's resistive touchscreen is nowhere near as slick as the capacitive touchscreens on high-end smart phones. There's no multi-touch functionality for zooming in with a pinch of the fingers, for example, and you have to apply a degree of pressure to make the display register your input.
People who can't be bothered to look out of the window may find the weather widget useful. You can drag and drop them from the panel on to the home screen to see an expanded version, so the music player widget, for example, will show play and skip-track buttons.
As well as a music player and elementary features such as a clock, calendar and calculator, the OT-708 offers an FM radio. If you want to store more than a few tunes on the OT-708, you'll need to get a microSD card, of up to 4GB, into the slot under the battery.
We'd recommend transferring your music on to your microSD card and then putting it in the phone, rather than using Alcatel's PC Suite software to transfer files directly to the handset. The software is repellent, and our handset didn't come with a mini-USB cable for connecting it to our computer anyway.
The 1.3-megapixel camera takes snaps fairly quickly and offers plenty of settings to play with.
The OT-708 offers a Web browser, but without 3G or Wi-Fi connectivity it can be a little slow.
It's possible to bash out a text message fairly quickly using the OT-708's on-screen alphanumeric keypad, as long as you've got the predictive text mode turned on.
The phone's call quality is fine, with voices coming through loud and clear on both ends. You can expect the battery to last a few days with normal use.
This handset comes with £10 airtime. To apply this, please see the instructions on the box. If you have any problems then be sure to contact us via eBay messages.
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