alcatel 2001

  • Released 2013, November
    89g, 12.8mm thickness
    Feature phone
    microSD slot
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  • 2.4"
    240x320 pixels
  • 2MP
    240p
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  • 1000mAh
    Li-Ion

alcatel 2001 - Specs

Network Technology GSM
2G bands GSM 850 / 1900 - 2001A
  GSM 900 / 1900 - 2001X
GPRS Yes
EDGE No
Launch Announced 2013, November. Released 2013, November
Status Discontinued
Body Dimensions 112 x 61.5 x 12.8 mm (4.41 x 2.42 x 0.50 in)
Weight 89 g (3.14 oz)
SIM Mini-SIM
 Flashlight
Display Type TFT, 256K colors
Size 2.4 inches, 17.8 cm2 (~25.9% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 240 x 320 pixels, 4:3 ratio (~167 ppi density)
Memory Card slot microSD, up to 16 GB (dedicated slot)
Phonebook 200 entries
Call records Yes
Main Camera Single 2 MP
Video 320p@30fps
Selfie camera   No
Sound Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
 Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
Comms WLAN No
Bluetooth 3.0, A2DP, EDR
GPS No
Radio FM radio, RDS; built-in antenna
USB microUSB 2.0
Features Sensors
Messaging SMS, MMS
Games No
Java No
 SOS emergency help
Voice dial
Organizer
Photo/video viewer
Weather forecast
Predictive text input
Battery   Removable Li-Ion 1000 mAh battery
Stand-by Up to 500 h
Talk time Up to 7 h
Misc Colors White, Black
Models 2001A, 2001X
SAR EU 0.80 W/kg (head)     1.28 W/kg (body)    
Price About 60 EUR

alcatel 2001 - User Reviews

  • The widescreen display I thought were only reserved for QWERTY feature phones, not this. Also the keypad design of the phone most resembles the Nokia X3-02.

  • I must choose call from a list, How can i make a call faster??

  • The keypad looks...kinda off

  • If you are in Australia, telcos are switching off their 2G networks, which affects this phone completely. But if you live somewhere else, you may like to see if your provider still operates with a 2G network.

  • I do

  • There's a problem with messages. It can send them, but it doesn't receive them. Is anyone having the same problem?

  • Brilliant phone for the elderly or people with hearing or sight problems. Wish the cell co's in South Africa could market this phone better though.

  • I used to make a lot of voice reminders (they call it "voice alarm"). But one day my Alcatel 2001x says "task list is full!". I thought my voice messages are being recorded on SD card and that SD card is full, but it was 91% free. Then I counted my voice messages, there were 20 of them. Is it possible that you can not record more then 20 voice messages? Can someone help me with this?

  • Please, can anyone help me with this: I thought I could make voice alarms as much as I needed, but suddenly my Alcatel 2001x informed me that "task list is full!". I thought these voice alarms (i.e. voice reminders) are being recorded on my SD card and that SD card is simply full, but then I checked it out and found that there is 91% free space on this card. And then I counted all of these voice messages that I made before the phone said "task list is full" and there were 20 of them. So, it seems that number of voice messages doesn't depend on how much space there is on SD card, but rather that the phone is just preset to record maximum of 20 messages? Can anyone please tell me this is not true and that there is a way for me to continue recording voice messages? My life is such that I have myriads of tasks, duties, obligations etc, so the voice reminders are essential for me. I know that there is one simple solution - to buy a smartphone, but considering the shape, weight, size of letters, the simplicity of making a reminder and other features, Alcatel 2001x is the best mobile phone I have ever had.

  • Please, can anyone help me with this: I thought I could make voice alarms as much as I needed, but suddenly my Alcatel 2001x informed me that "task list is full!". I thought these voice alarms (i.e. voice reminders) are being recorded on my SD card and that SD card is simply full, but then I checked it out and found that there is 91% free space on this card. And then I counted all of these voice messages that I made before the phone said "task list is full" and there were 20 of them. So, it seems that number of voice messages doesn't depend on how much space there is on SD card, but rather that the phone is just preset to record maximum of 20 messages? Can anyone please tell me this is not true and that there is a way for me to continue recording voice messages? My life is such that I have myriads of tasks, duties, obligations etc, so the voice reminders are essential for me. I know that there is one simple solution - to buy a smartphone, but considering the shape, weight, size of letters, the simplicity of making a reminder and other features, Alcatel 2001x is the best mobile phone I have ever had.

  • is this phone can use mobile data?or gprs? how to switch it off because my credit loss due to my mobile data is on.i dont know how to swtch off.kindly help me..tq

  • How can i play music whit it? I have read the manual and there was nothing about it . please guide me . Thanks

  • We took ours to Telstra shop & they made it ring longer.

  • It's the service provider not the phone who can do this. He is pulling a fast one. Done for me n OK

  • How do we increase the length of time the phone rings before it says the person you are calling is not available? It is ringing only one or twice then cutting out and this is getting frustrating. We have talked to the service provided and they say they can't help. Is there a function on the phone somewhere that I am missing?

  • How do we increase the length of time the phone rings before it says the person you are calling is not available? It is ringing only one or twice then cutting out and this is getting frustrating. We have talked to the service provided and they say they can't help. Is there a function on the phone somewhere that I am missing?

  • Delete all the entries in the cities list. Then use the add function to add Brisbane. It will then search and it will bring up Australia(Queensland). Arrow down and then select. Simples.

  • You can only select Sydney for the time zone and I am in Queensland which does not have daylight saving. Every time the phone is unlocked it wants to change to Sydney daylight saving time. Can this be fixed in some way as it is annoying and not helpful when teaching how to use the phone to seniors? The large keys and screen are great for seniors but it requires someone to setup the phone for them as it is not really user friendly. The instructions say to download onetouch to upgrade the software. Anyone had any success at doing this as it may solve my problems?

  • How to add contacts on my ALCATEL

  • Can anyone please tell me how to make the ring longer when I get a call. Mine only lasts 10 to 15 seconds and I miss a lot of calls

  • Just got the 2001x. I can help you "anonymous". Go to "others" then scroll down to "voice assist dialling" and press "OK". Then simply scroll up to "off" and press "OK" Now can anyone please tell me how to make the ringing longer when someone calls. Mine inly lasts 10 to 15 seconds and I miss a lot of calls.wokka

  • Hi All, Great phone, but can anyone tell me if its possible to block a number on this phone? And if so, how? My mother has this phone and i need to explain to her how to do it. Thanks in advance 😊

  • where exactly can i find internet application on alcatel 2001x

  • where exactly can i find internet application on alcatel 2001x

  • where exactly can i find internet application on alcatel 2001x

  • It took me forever but I found it.

  • The phone seems to be great, but the instructions that came with it are unreadable. I can not find a user-manual for this model on the internet. Can you help??!!

  • Phonebook should be 800 enteries

  • 1."There is no dedicated key for Agenda. The same as previous, you have to navigate through Menu in order to reach the Agenda (3 steps). 2. "Another minus is that you cannot de-activate the voice (you can hear the number you are writing), on General profile. For some people is very useful, but for other might be annoying." 1.Please, how can I find this Agenda? Or, did you mean Calendar? 2.I guess you meant how to turn off keypad sound? Well, if this is what you meant, then you go this way: Settings - Profiles - General - Customize - Keypad - Edit. In "edit" you select "silence" and save it ("save?" - "yes"). After that you will type without any sound.

  • It's not true, it plays music in wav.format. After you connect your alcatel to the computer, you can, for example, download music from youtube in mp3 format (using "youtube to mp3 converter", it's free), then convert mp3 to wav (there are sites that do this for free). Wav format songs take much more space then mp3 songs (maybe ten times more), so it's essential that you have SD card inserted (maximum 16 GB). On the other hand, wav songs sound better. I have some 55 wav format songs recorded and they use 1,9 GB of SD card.

  • go into settings, go down to input settings, scroll down to either small case or large case abc or ABC and cilck OK

  • I found if I simply hold a number down it asks if I want to useit as speed dial and when you type yes it goes to contact list, click the one you want and done. I do have a problem as there was no manual with this phone and everything I have done has been by hit and miss. Not able to find a manual on Internet either. good phone poor documentation

  • I think you can't. There are lots of things that makes you wanna smash this phone at the wall. You cannot listen to the music that you recorded and in the same time text message or even see what is the time, you have to stop the music in order to do anything else. You cannot just simply record your music in mp3 format, no, you have to convert it to wav. format which takes a lot more space on your SD card (around 10x more per song). And you cannot just put the music on and listen to the songs going one after another, no, every time one song is over you have to make a click to start a new one. If you typed a long message and you decided to forget about it and not to send it, you cannot just simply get out of there by one click, no, you have to erase your message letter by letter, word by word by pressing the red button, it is so annoying. You cannot make for yourself any longer reminder because there are only 35 characters that you can use for writing a reminder, so you have to write abbreviations etc. There is no stopwatch, no timer (!). In message folder, you cannot erase entire conversation with some person because there is not such feature (like in Nokia), you have to erase message by message and if there is some 38 messages, there is no fast way to sweep through messages (like in Nokia), you have to open every one of them to make sure you're not going to erase something important. I have problem with my eyes, so this phone is ideal for me, I can't find phone with bigger letters and buttons, but as I said, there are so many annoying things about this phone and I hope people from Alcatel will read this and do something about it.

  • I had the same problem. The solution is this (at least in my case): turn off the phone, wait for a little while, then turn it on. I had problem with radio and with camera, but everything was okay again when I turned off - turned on my phone. I hope this will help.

  • Fine for a 13 yr old too!

  • Does this have an mp3 player? I'm a high school student wondering if this will be suitable.

  • Thanks, this was extremely useful, I loaded my alcatel with wav format songs, but before that I was desperate...

  • Could anyone tell me, please, how to go on internet in alcatel 2001x? It's under: Others - Services. When I try to get this "Services" it says "SIM not support!". What a heck is that? When I put the same SIM card into any smartphone it goes to internet without any problems, but it doesn't work with my alcatel 2001x (which i wouldn't change for all the smartphones in the world!). Does this mean that alcatel 2001x doesn't provide this service (internet) at all, or is it just some problem with this particular piece?

  • You wanna speed dial? You go this way: settings - phone settings - speed dial. Then you choose a number which you want to assign to some particular phone number, then: options - edit - select name(i.e. number) from your contacts. Now you have a particular contact (i.e. person's phone number) assigned to a particular number on your key pad. All you have to do is to press and hold for a little while this particular number and your alcatel will dial this person immediately. Piece of cake.

  • Why tells me i have insufficient memory whenever i want to use camera when there is a lot of memory available?????

  • Hi Lainy, Did you manage to use the speed dial. I have the same problem for my mum. It would make it easier for her.

  • The phone alcatel ot 2001 from line x does not play songs in mp3 and mp4, you must convert it to a .acc, .wav format.

  • How do I remove the predictive text from this phone? It drives me crazy every time I send a message.

  • I took the mobile to the Vodafone and they transfer the contact if you are in Egypt go to city star

  • Hello Everyone! I've got a question about the Internet connection in this phone. Is there any way of switching that off? I bought the phone for my Mum and she doesn't use internet on her mobile, so she wants to switch it off - unfortunatelly, I didn't find any settings/options saying "Disconnect the Internet" or sth like that. Can you help me please?

  • Hello Everyone! I've got a question about the Internet connection in this phone. Is there any way of switching that off? I bought the phone for my Mum and she doesn't use internet on her mobile, so she wants to switch it off - unfortunatelly, I didn't find any settings/options saying "Disconnect the Internet" or sth like that. Can you help me please?

  • Greetings. I've purchased this phone (2001X) for my dad. I have tried using bluetooth connectivity to transfer his address book from his old phone (Sony Ericsson K750) but It was impossible (it would not accept the incoming file). I have tried to use the alcatel suite but again there was no way importing the address book (I could not find such an option). Has anyone tried this before on 2001X phone? Thanks

  • me also i'm asking the same question did you know any thing about this query ???

  • please i want to know if that phone playing songs like mp3 and mp4 or no ??? thanks

  • Hi how can use a mp3 file for rington? (Can Alcatel 2001x support mp3 file?)

  • 1 just for mailbox. Start whit 2,3,4,5 etc.

  • how do you use speed dial? it is not in the instructions

  • Delete GPRS settings.

  • Where can i buy this phone?

  • Hi guys, I have questions, yesterday I buy this phone an I hold number 1 and ask me do you want to voice mail and I chose yes after that I tipe name and number and then ok but I don't know, how can I cancel it!! is there anybody can help me???? Please

  • How do I turn off internet. This phone is eating money. I switch GPRS off but it switches back on when I return to normal use

  • Please do they do this phone in white love the phone this is my 4th Alcatel mobile love them but would love it in white thank u here's hoping tks

  • Iv just bought this phone love it but would love it in white was told you don't do it is that right thank you

  • can be - just gotta press desired and premade key for a quick call

  • No, I read somewhere that it's not possible to assign a picture to a contact. And I have a question myself. Does anybody know for sure if it's possible to make a quick call with this cellphone? By quick call I mean to assign each number on the dial-pad from 1 to 9 to specific contacts so when you want to call those contacts you just need to press and hold one number instead of searching for the contact or dialing his/her number. Because I want to buy this cellphone for my grandmother because it's not easy for her to dial a full number with trembling fingers. Thanks a lot.

  • Can you select a picture for the contact, so it's displayed when they're calling you? thx

  • isn`t true u can set up any ring tone u want , just download it on the memory card , u need one bcz the phone comes with a small memory ,after u have it on the memory card u can set it tlike ring tone .

  • how do i answer my voice mmmmmmail

  • Hye there. I just bought my mom one.. her telco plan comes with data and I forgot to asked the seller on how to use Internet via this handphone.. Help please. Tq

  • Disappointing you can't set other ringtones. Don't like what comes with the phone.

  • Just pushing the button between radio fm button and camera button, that's all!!!!

  • It's no true, it plays music too, it has a really simple mp3 player too.

  • this phone has a facebook app.

  • turn off the GPRS (data transfer)

  • only gprs

  • No it doesnt play music . only radio

  • I am 80 and deaf on one side. Superb phone all round for a senior citizen. If you want all the bells and whistles buy something else

  • Who can are

  • Can you enlarge font size for texting and reading texts?

  • great phone .......perfect method of communication !!!!!

  • does anyone know how can i play music in this phone?

  • Brilliant little phone for seniors or arthritic hands. Clear reception and voice for punching in numbers. This is a phone just for making and taking calls - no internet or fancy bits. I love my new Alcatel! Wish it had 3G for black spots. Very pleased with this phone - the instruction book is useless because the print is way too small.

  • How to using internet plz help frnds

  • This mobile have emailclient?

  • does this phone support chinese language ?

  • I am hearing impaired (70% hearing loss) and sadly just bought an amplified mobile supposedly with a 40 decibel amplification. If I had found this Alcatel first could have saved a lot of money. It's volume and clarity beats anything else I have found. I cannot fault this phone & strongly recommend it to anyone with bad hearing. I am totally amazed & delighted with it's sound volume & clarity.

  • Been helping a friend with this monstrosity. Possibly the worst phone on the market. Very clumsy operating system. Poor systems for writing sms. Almost no internal memory. Poor camera. Bad geographical information, can't set local timezone! Not enough volume on ringing. Poor small screen. Clumsy keys. Can't use apps. A disaster. Much better available for similar prices.

  • How can I get ringtones its my friends I'm trying to set it up for can't find ringtones

  • why tells me i have insuficient memory whenever i want to use camera when there is a lot of memory available

  • Excellent fone

  • I was able to use mp3 as ringtone, maybe they changed the firmware lately (I just bought it as a gift for my mom), you should look for updates in the official website

  • I was able to use mp3 as a ringtone, maybe the change the firmware, you should look for updates in the official website

  • you can buy it in argos

  • change setings from internet to mms setings

  • I have a alcatel 2001 and I had to convert my mp3 files to pmc wav audio but with no media player ya can't play list music only good for ring tones hope this helps :)

  • I just wanted to use it as a phone and camera. it just eats credit at a 1£ a time for no reason.I have returned to my old nokia my alcatel20-01 was a waste of money and the so call quick start guide is hopeless and explains nothing

  • *bump* Anyone know how to turn of GPRS/mobile internet on this phone? Any help much appreciated!

  • Does anyone know how can i make this phone (i have it ten days) and i cant make it to ringing with sounds from my 8giga sd card?

  • i would like to send you one of this model

  • Does anybody know how to switch the internet off using lots of data

  • nice phone..big keyboard

  • Where can I buy one Please!!!! desperate to find one even secondhand

  • Excelent phone, internal FM antenna! charging dock! flashlight! great keyboard very simple menu you can disable the voice help for dialing cons: short charging cable no headphones

  • menu supplied also on download probably translated from another galaxy, alphabet is faint enough to be useless, we purchased 2 in haste and of course will ditch these and get 2 others when we can afford the outlay.......stay clear of them, or at least look hard at the keyboard and the manual beffore buying.

  • The manual supplied is hopeless, the key letters are illegible,the keys are jammed tight together, reading the maunal ''sheet of paper'' with a magnifying glass one needs a masters in gobildy gook, all in all 5 out of 10!

  • It seems is a new phone, Does anybody know where does it produce, It seems like cheap Chinese phones ,

  • hey can whats app work on this fone

  • Who produces in 2013 a phone without MP3 player??? Maybe the elderly ones want a ring tone that is not a stupid midi.... I am very disappointed.

  • I don't understand how it was designed for old people since: 1.There is no dedicated key for General/Silent switch (Profile). You have to enter into Menu, to navigate, and after 4-5 steps to reach the option. There is a must for all phones, not only for old people ones. 2.There is no dedicated key for Agenda. The same as previous, you have to navigate through Menu in order to reach the Agenda (3 steps). Strange, is that you have dedicated key for Weather instead of having that previous 2 dedicated buttons. Another minus is that you cannot de-activate the voice (you can hear the number you are writing), on General profile. For some people is very useful, but for other might be annoying.

  • Bought this for my 84 year old mother and has already caused great distress as cannot get signal, either can't get through at all or calls just drop continually. Today cannot get through to her at all. Will be taking it back for refund. Where my mother lives is an old building and signal not great but her Motorola is much much better so will have to go back to using this again.

  • Hi, friend! You can see the Alcatel 20.01 specs here:

  • tell us more bout this phone, no review no comments... someone make the first review and turn the lamp on!