alcatel OT 557

  • Released 2004, Q3
    93g, 21.4mm thickness
    Feature phone
    2MB storage, no card slot
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    128x160 pixels
  • 0.3MP
    No video recorder
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  • 800mAh
    Li-Ion

alcatel OT 557 - Specs

Network Technology GSM
2G bands GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
  GSM 850 / 1800 / 1900 - Alcatel OT 557a
GPRS Class 10
EDGE No
Launch Announced 2004, Q3
Status Discontinued
Body Dimensions 107.7 x 48.2 x 21.4 mm, 86 cc (4.24 x 1.90 x 0.84 in)
Weight 93 g (3.28 oz)
SIM Mini-SIM
Display Type CSTN, 65K colors
Size
Resolution 128 x 160 pixels
 Downloadable logos
Memory Card slot No
Phonebook 500 x 20 fields, Photo call
Call records 10 dialed, 10 received, 10 missed calls
Internal 2MB
Main Camera Single VGA
Video No
Selfie camera   No
Sound Loudspeaker No
Alert types Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic ringtones, composer
3.5mm jack No
Comms WLAN No
Bluetooth No
GPS No
Infrared port Yes
Radio No
USB
Features Sensors
Messaging SMS, EMS, MMS
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML
Games SpeedDevils and GylosTale + downloadable
Java Yes
 Video player
Predictive text input
SyncML
Organizer
Voice memo
Voice dial
Battery   Removable Li-Ion 800 mAh battery
Stand-by Up to 285 h
Talk time Up to 7 h
Misc Colors

alcatel OT 557 - User Reviews

  • good phone! this was the first one i have.... with camaraa an all the stuff it brings for a kid was good enough!! i like it very much!! :D

  • Beautiful phone. Colorscreen and evrything. This is all the phone you want!!

  • Very, very good phone! i have alcatel since 2000. And not where to nit-pick :)

  • Best phone I've eve had. Very resistent and cute, I still have it and I don't want to sell it, maybe I will need it in the future again :D

  • Nice phone!! and cute

  • how i can get a radio on this phone??? ^_^_^

  • I've buyed this phone second - hand for about 30$, it's nothing special. It have VGA camera but when i set the picture resolution at 640x480 it takes too long to make a photo. Then it didnt have usb, and only INFRARED for connections. The design is not bad, and the memory is too small... a low caracter phone...

  • Victorian: I'm afraid you can't send or recieve Java apps through the infrared port to or from another phone. Though, you can do this through the Alcatel PC Suite software. You also need the Java Loader to be able to send Java apps to yoour phone, that should be the same version as the PC Suite (otherwise, you'll have to edit the windows registry). Hope to be usefull... TAKE CARE, BEHAVE BADLY AND BE HAPPY...

  • Hi everybody. I bought Irda for this phone but i haven't got drivers. Can somebody give me a link with drivers for this phone.

  • it�s a grat phone, but I also had problems using mms and GPRS... besides my phone has a malfunction, i cant turn it on, i need a piece called "turning on filter" and i cant get it anywhere!!! help

  • Can somebody tell me why my GPRS & MMS ain't working,even when I have already activated them? Please Help!!!

  • hi people, i need some help with is how i do to format photos albums counter, because i delete all images, and the new photos take for example this number cam00154, and not cam00001, why? how can i do for reset the counter... send one mail please to [email protected] in english (not this english) in spanish in portuguese thanks folks!

  • I bought this excellent and wonderful low price , packed with lots of features and a brilliant 65k colour phone...But the down side is that the size is only 2Mb....I love the usage of the infrared..can sent sounds...pictures,videos,contacts,diaries...but the only problem is that i cannot sent java games to my phone...Please help me....I want to sent and received java games...

  • I just bought this phone and it seems to have all I was looking for. The problem is I bought it in Mexico, speak English and can't find the manual on line. The link on this website doesn't work. Any ideas?

  • It is very good, nice photos, relative low price, but I can not transfer .jpa and .mmf files from mobile to PC and vice vesra via IrDa. I downloaded PC Suite for this mobile and I have not any troubles to transfer all other formats. PLease for help and advise.

  • Alcatel is not my first phone, i use other brand Nxx,Sxx,Mxx before and Alcatel is worth for money with their price , feature and off couse the battery life is good compare with others,user friendly.

  • This phone is osome because of the colorful screen and the atractive prise! ------------------------------------------- the worse thing about this phone is the memory it's very small...

  • hi, i have the phone 4 about 2 months and i dont know how to send pics or sounds via IRDA to my laptop, do i need a patch, program or anything like that?? please help, i need to free some space...

  • I dont like it!!! It worked gud 4 bout a week then i started 2 work realy slow!!! Bou the screen is awsome!!!!(takes horable pics but stores a lot of them)

  • Not bad a phone, supports lots of games. Wish it had a larger memory capacity.

  • I just bought this phone, haven't activated it yet thou... How many text messages can I store? how many received?, how many sent?, how many not sent? or how many in total? thanks

  • Hi REGGIE this phone doesn't work with a cable to your PC, works with INFRARED connection or IRDA, you can find this kind of device on laptops, palms, digital cameras and all the new geneation of electronics. If you can't find it in your town, I suggest to buy it on internet good luck!!

  • hithere,i need a very big help which is my problem is i have the software for the fone but i don't have a cable to connect to my pc in order to download from the internet. the phone is not common in my country shops so is very difficult to get any part of the phone in town. so please i need help. i want to change the housing of my phone and also need a connecting cable to the pc from the phone. thanks.

  • perfect, now my irda connections works! but with the original alcatel soft i can't transfeer java, any body knows how to do it (isntall games, aplications, what ever) without internet?

  • Hello is easy!!!!! you just have to configurate your sistem in your pc!!!!! i think that you have more speed that your cellphon can recibe!!!! try to put it in 57 kpbs!!!!

  • excelent!!!!!!!!!

  • The best price/product relation that you can find!. I just got some problems trying to connect it with my IRDA, I downloaded the 5mb basic pc suit and the soft ask me to activate the irda and nothing more happens. what can be wrong?

  • I am using OT 557 since 7 months. I am facing a problem now, whenever I activated infrared through PC, it can't detect itself. I had already sent to the rer under warranty but still no use. So I think the hardware in the mobile should cause problem. So anyone who faces this problem before?

  • I am using OT 557 since 3 months. I am facing a problem now, whenver I switch on my Mobile, ALCATEL logo appears on the screen but does not proceed beyond that. Seems that it is a software error can any one please guide

  • I have my OT 557 for 7 months and i am satisfied with it very much.Sounds are great pictures are great too,and you can also record your own melodies and sounds and then to use them as ringtones or as a message alerts,and you can recive and send pictures over Ir-DA.I just have one little problem so please help me how to transfer java games and aplications over Ir DA from computer,should I use alcatel Pc suite for do that or there is onother trik.Thank you for any help given.

  • anyone know where i can download the patch for pc suite so that i can transfer java games

  • i can't send or recived nothing with infrared.Does infrared work wit pc?or i must by usb port

  • Very nice phone, nice colours, good sound, as for me, the 2MB memory is OK, photos are good (not the quality you'd get from a digital cam obviously)... The only bad point is that some games for 160 x 128 screens don't work on this phone, but if u use it for other purpouses it's ok. What's really great is the low price. If u don't have much money and u'r looking for a good phone, buy this one.

  • Really a great phone at a very very reasonable phone, the images are clear, great memory, resolution, video player is excelent, the only bad thing is that it is a little bit big, but is a gerat phone, with infrared you can send and receive everything!

  • Works perfectely with gprs servers, and with a simple USB Irda adapter, the conection with the pc is perfect. PC suite V3 is great and it has a content manager to echange sounds, photos and video with the cel. To download java, you need a patch to the pc suite, but works really fine. The only problem is the low memory (2mb). But it's a great phone!

  • truly a colorful phone at a very attractive price.

  • amazing features at a very reasonable price.

  • This phone is really great!!! Excelent ringtones, images, screensavers, sound and cam. I love this phone!!! If you are searching a page for download free wallpapers and screensavers, search in: that's an excelent page! If anyone has got the simpsons ringtone for this movil phone, please send me it to: +5491159360272 See you

  • The price of this phone in Malaysia is RM599. U can change sms or mms ringtone at ringtone setting. I want to ask how much the cost of the IRDA-USB adaptor in RM.

  • Can anyone tell me how much does the 557 cost(in RM please)?

  • hi. i buy alcatel 557 and function OK, wap and ring tones also. any body nknow how change the ring of incomming sms and mms. please answerme. tnaks.

  • I took my mobilephone to an orange dealer and they made the settings for the gprs.. it's working really well, ive downloaded some crazy clips from alcatel.com... and most of all.. the pc suite works really well if u have a IRDA-USB adaptor.. and u can put miniclips of your own if you want.. i've didi that and i'm very happy about it.. i like a lot!!

  • I want to know about setting GPRS for Alcatel OT 557. Please help me.

  • Hi, since I bought my Alcatel OT 557, I can't enter to the WAP, I can't download anything, please help me, I really need your help!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks

  • very good for this price, i have this one... so, design is strange, not very acceptable for all.

  • This phone is poorly designed. It looks like many features packed, but all only work under special condition. Hardware is OK, the firmware is buggy, not tested by the programmers at all.

  • es muy bueno

  • nice phone but i dunno how to activate gprs..and hard to download...

  • This is a good phone at this price. If u think the price is ok for u, just buy it, don't think more!!!!!!