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New Cellphone: Motorola W490

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

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.