New Cellphone: Motorola W490
I now have a new cellphone: The T-Mobile Motorola W490. Like all recent T-Mobile phones, it has their fabulous myFaves service and EDGE data. Like any respectable modern cellphone, it has Bluetooth 2.0 support, as well as a microSD slot, exterior screen, and 1.3MP camera.
Pros:
- World Phone (GSM) on T-Mobile USA’s amazing network, with free national roaming on both 850 MHz and 1900 MHz.
- Fast EDGE data with free tethering via the USB port or via Bluetooth (requires a proxy on the tzones plan)
- Uncrippled phone for the most part (Java apps have iffy Internet access, but I’m just on the tzones plan)
- Stylis “thin” Motorola phone, people thinks its a KRZR (at NONE of the cost)
- AIM/ICQ/Windows Live/Yahoo! Messenger
Cons:
- the Motorola buttons are a bit.. odd
- You can’t use exterior screen as an egocam
- J2ME applications can’t use the internet without some hacking that damages the built in applications
Got any more comments on this phone, T-Mobile service, what not? Hit me up in the comments.
Tags: cellphone, motorola w490, t-mobile
December 20th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
i know i got it also
ivv had like 4 people say is that a krzr or wow that looks like a krzr
its an awsome phone….but dont forget you can add apps threw a mini sd memory card,no hacking needed.
you have mail for AIM/ICQ/Windows Live/Yahoo
and its way cheap
December 26th, 2007 at 12:04 am
The most important feature of a phone: The voice quality. The w490 sucks. T-mobile service is fine. Had great voice quality on my very old Moto v66.
December 26th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
I like the W490’s voice quality. Much better than the Blackberry 8800 on Verizon Wireless.
January 7th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
I’ve had the w490 for a week now and it’s a lot more versatile than I thought a free fone would be. Style, voice quality, functionality are all completely practical and convenient. I even use the voice commands when I’m driving. It’s efficient and pretty too.
I just wish I could set up GPS…