Alcatel's "GlamPhone ELLE" slated for US release

by Chris Ziegler, posted Aug 9th 2006 at 2:43PM

If showing your allegiance to ELLE Magazine ranks high on your list of priorities when cross-shopping phones, you may not be alone -- if Alcatel did any market research on this one, that is. We first told you about their "GlamPhone ELLE" last year, but at the time, we thought the uninspiring clamshell would only be finding its way to GSM 900 / 1800 networks; a new version sports 850 / 1900, though, and will be dropping stateside on September 1 in your choice of red or black for $180. Unfortunately, the phone's 3MB of internal memory, VGA shooter, and GPRS data leave a bad taste in our mouth that no mirrored display or free year of ELLE Magazine can overcome, but we're guessing they'll manage to push a few through in-mag advertising.

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Filed under: Culture, Handsets, Others, GSM, GPRS

Tags: alcatel, clamshell, elle, flip, glamphone, mirror

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-_- @ Aug 9th 2006 2:50PM

it's nice to see more phones on the market in red and green and blue, but c'mon! that phone sucks! if it's gonna look good, it has to perform just as well.

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Sebastian @ Aug 10th 2006 12:55PM

Hey, i´m from Argentina, and this phone has been here for awhile. I´m a cellphone salesman, and it really realy sucks :(
It´s more expensive than a SE Z520, and it´s PLAIN UGLY, the termination is awful, specially in the red version (the other is black) and the "mirror" deforms the reflection

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Mere @ Aug 10th 2006 1:12PM

This phone looks cool. I love Elle magazine so a phone like this will be perfect for me. Where can I get one?

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