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| Motorola W490 Phone (T-Mobile) | 
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| Brand: Motorola
Category: Wireless
List Price: $249.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 5300
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: W490
UPC: 610214614711
ASIN: B000WPFE1S
Release Date: October 8, 2007
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 All in all, a great phone March 19, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Moto W490 is a really great phone. Like the other reviewer, I too found the Razr to be too wide and the Krzr too narrow but the W490 is just right! I have the purple one and the backlight behind the keys is a purple color too. It's a very sleek style flip phone, slim and lightweight. Purple is my favorite color so I don't even need to worry about getting a faceplate and losing the sleekness or streamline of the phone. The phone can hold up to a 2gb memory card and the memory card slot is in a very convenient place. Also, the ability to download mp3's and make them ringtones will save a lot of money! I have had a lot of fun with this phone. My only complaint, and it's a small one, is that the ringer isn't loud enough. I have it on max volume but the ring itself is very low. That isn't enough to change my opinion of the phone, though. It gets wonderful reception (even in my 2 story townhouse), the memory options are excellent, the camera works great, the sound quality for both music and calls is great, it's a beautiful phone with a spun metal finish and it's options regarding pictures, music, set up and personlization are wonderful. If you are in the market for a new motorola and need something less than the Razr 2, but more than a Krzr or a Razr V3 this is the phone for you! Go to your local cell phone dealer and play with the demo and you'll see what I mean!
 A Few Key Things Wrong with this Phone February 29, 2008
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
So, I wanted to upgrade my phone from a Nokia 6133 that I've had for about 8 months. It was doing fine for the most part, but recently, every once in a blue moon, the microphone would go out, and I was told I sounded like I was "underwater". My friends thought it was funny. I sure didn't think it was funny and was quite annoyed when I was trying to say something serious, and yep, all I hear is laughing. Not good. This happened very rarely, and was not the main reason I wanted to upgrade. The main reason was the battery life was quite short on the Nokia (up to 3 hours), and I talk quite a bit.
So, like a good consumer, I did a little research and the w490 seemed like the best deal with the most amount of features for the money. I called good old T-mobile, the phone came, and I absolutely hate it. Correct me if I'm wrong (i'm not) but a phone's main purpose is still to talk, right? Well, I can be heard fine when I talk, but when I am trying to hear you, I am missing quite a bit. The speaker for the ear piece has a much more basey tone to it, and it is not very sensitive, so you better be talking loud, otherwise I'll be saying a bunch oh "Huh's?". The volume control just won't go high enough and if people are talking around me, I can't hear ANYTHING you're saying. I couldn't stand that, and compared to my Nokia, it was about 10 steps backward, definitely not an upgrade and made me appreciate the Nokia so much more. At this point I already decided I was going to return the phone, but here are a few more issues I noticed in the one day I had the phone.
The screen resolution is pretty bad and ugly, not to mention very, very small. The colors are bleak, and it just was not very clear or pleasant to look at. The keypad is kind of small, and when trying to go through menus, I frequently found my fat fingers pressing buttons I did not want to press. I was told that the pictures I sent, compared to my Nokia 6133, also at 1.3 mp, did not come out as clear and were pretty fuzzy.
The phone itself is still kind of big and bulky as well. Final complaint, the supposed battery life of "up to 7.5 hours" talk time or whatever, means exactly that. It means "up to". I probably did not get more than 4 or 5 hours talk time on this phone. Compared to the Nokia, it was still better (at an "up to 3 hours") but not worth the $50 upgrade price.
Just to be a bit more fair, it did have some good points. The phone came loaded with several different ring tones which were decent, and the speaker sounded relatively clear and loud when it rang. There are many options on this phone, and it does have a few capabilities which can be appreciated. For the price, I guess it is a relative bargain, but the fact that I CAN"T HEAR WHAT YOUR SAYING can't make it a bargain enough for me and just an aggravation. And, no, I know what you're thinking.....I'm not 85 years old.... I still have my hearing at 26, thank you very much. I don't know, maybe I got a bad phone or something, but I wasn't going to try my luck again. In the meantime, I'm sending it back and forking over the cash for the Razr 2 v8. Yes, still a Motorola, I know, but I've had Motorola cell phones in the past and have been very happy with them. Even though the razr 2 v8 has supposedly the same "up to" battery life of 8 hours, which is probably no more than my Nokia right now (thats the rumor from people who have had them already), if I can hear you clearly, that alone is worth the extra bucks for me. Thanks, hope that helped you out a little bit ;)
No major complaints January 26, 2008
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
I have always been a fan of motorola phones. I have had Samsung, Nokia, etc. etc. and have always found that something would break after a drop or two.
I always liked the looks of the Razr but found it to be to wide... then the krzr, but found it to be to small. Then came the 490. It carries the same style and design of the razr and krzr but is a in between the two in size.
I wont bore you with the specs of the phone... although I have seen it listed as not having voice dialing when it in fact does.
I have dropped it, kicked it, gotten it wet, you name it and it still works perfectly fine. My only complaint is that the back panel that covers the battery feels flimsy. It is more solid than other phones I have but given how thin it is it feels flimsy. It has popped off a couple of times on some of the harder falls the phone has had but for the most part it is a small complaint.
I love the phone and if the last 6 months are any indication I will have the phone for another year and half.
Side note... in my experiences and those of people I have talked to there is not a single phone provider around that offers free phones that are worth their weight. Every free phone I have seen falls apart or breaks inside of 6-8 months (long enough for them to wash their hands of it.) If you are looking for a phone of quality it will cost $50-100 to do it.
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