The Alcatel OT-C551 mobile phone is a Dual band GSM phone which is soon to be released, probably by this year end. The phone weighs about 80 grams and measures a compact 101 x 48 x 19 mm. The phone has a decent sized screen which is a CSTN 65k color display, which has a display resolution of 128 x 160.

The Alcatel OT-C551 mobile phone has a boxish design, which gives it a pretty compact look to it. The phone is an entry level clamshell which provides the most basic of features there are to the user. There is no memory card, nor there is a very high quality camera. Although the Alcatel OT-C551 mobile phone does have a VGA resolution camera which can take stills and photos at 640 x 480 pixels. The camera comes useful sometimes but due to the low memory you cannot take a lot of photos. You can although transfer your photographs to another phone or your computer using the Infrared port provided with the phone.

The battery of the Alcatel OT-C551 mobile phone lasts for about 4 hours talk time and close to 200 hours of standby.