Motorola W490 launching October 1st on T-Mobile
Remember that new Motorola W490 we told you about a while back? Don’t think we forgot about the little bugger. The handset, which closely resembles Moto’s last RAZR iteration, the KRZR, is a solid middle-end device sporting little more than a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, myFaves compatibility, and, well, not a whole lot more. It’s not a bad looking phone, and for $49.99 with a new activation, there’s not a lot of room for complaining. The handset will be available in a variety of colors, including black, bright green, and purple. The phone will launch on October 1st, with immediate availability at T-Mobile corporate stores, Costco, and Target. Complete distribution will follow on the 8th of October. Any takers? Head on over to Engadget Mobile to check out the full scoopage!
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To issue a seperate ring tone you must copy contact memory from the sim to the phone memory
Page 65 of the manual . After you do this you can install individual ringtones for each caller
how do you hear your fav ringtone then?
is there anyway of turning off the keypad beeb and still have your fav ringtone play for incoming calls
My husband and I bought both daughters these for Christmas, 1 purple and 1 green – absolutely the worst phones ever!!!! I have a Curve and wish EVERYONE had one…LOL
contacts saved to your sim will not be editable. but if you delete them and save them to the phone you can edit there caller ringtones/pictures whatever
Is there anyways to make your wallpaper move like your screen saver? because of the time out display I never get to see my screen saver. Can the wallpaper move or not>?
As for everybody who is asking questions
about the self portrait option. There is
the camera button on the side of your phone.
Close your phone, and then hold down that button.
The camera should come on, and you should
be able to take pictures that way.
The key-pads on this phone does not work! I received my replacement phone it doesn’t work as well. The numbers 4, 7 and 8’s keep popping up on the phone, I can’t answer or dial out sometimes. THis phone is horrible and it scratches really easily. DON’T GET THIS PHONE!!!
can anyone tell me where to get software to let me download songs to my W490 phone?
yea the phone is kinda kool and kinda dumb but wtf is up with the phone not taking self pictures wen u close it??? ITS BULLSHIT..!!!!!
I purchased the Green one in Feb or March, I had a rzr before, lasted me 2 years, this phone is okay, but now when I flip it open the screen is white! Whats up with that? I googled it, apparantly theres a lot of people experiancing this, I’m sure its a glitch, I am going to have it checked out today at the t-mobile store, hopfully they can fix it! Anyone else have this problem? Other than that, I love the phone…
HEY I HAVE THE MOTOROLA W490 ITS STRAIGHT BUT WHEN I PLUG IT TO THE COMPUTER TO TRANSFER MUSIC IT WONT SHOW THE FOLDER & IT SAYS SOME FILES & APPLICATIONS ARE NOT ACCESSIBLE ON THE SCREEN OF THE PHONE
Have you been able to get the screensaver to work? I followed the instructon manual with regard to the settngs for backlighting, and initial set up settngs. I read on another site that the screensaver on the Motorola W490 is defectve. Customer rep wasnt any help. If yours works, how to? Thanks.
I’m pick up this phone tonight and after reading all this…I’m having second thoughts!!! I did compare the W490 with the RZR and they seem to have identical features.
I just got this W490 and cannot figure out why it will not receive or send pics (that I’ve taken with the phone camera) with texts??? Anyone know how to solve this problem?
Thx
i cannot get thge song of the memory card and play on the phone yyyyyyyyy???????????
hi can any boy tell me how u do hard rest w490 tmobile.thank u
Need to have a microSD card to load music–you can’t just add it to the phone’s internal memory.
ALSO–don’t get crazy and try using anything larger than a 2gb microSD card (it won’t work!)
Good luck!
Same problem here, trying to figure out all the feats on this contraption. There is a tricky way to self portrait. Flip open the phone, access camera or video, set your finger on the record button, turn phone to where you are looking at the batt cover/front face of phone, carefully point the camera at yourself and presto! Requires a little aiming practice. For full body shots, that requires a mirror.
hey, well i got my fone like 5 months ago the 1st one shot the screen messed up i snt and it back and ive had this one for 3 months it wos good and is cute…. i like the features!!!
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As to the files showing on your computer but not on the phone, make sure you click on ’safely remove hardware’ before disconnecting the USB and after you unplug it the transfer should show on the phone.
As to ringtones for free, sign up for Phonezoo.com and upload your own music, edit with their easy editing software, then send the clip to your computer and load to the phone with USB. You can’t send via email to the phone unless you subscribe to the browser for an additional fee to T-Mobile. No fee and you can use any music you own.
i’m thinking about getting this phone because it’s cute and seems convenient. but i use my phone as my camera so i want good picture quality. is the picture quality with the W490 decent?
The picture quality is decent. Nothing fancy, and you can tell that the pictures were taken with a phone. Also, there is no flash, so consider the fact that you will not be able to take pictures at night.
If you can avoid this phone, do so. I’m on my third W490, and I’ve given up on it. I went to Target and bought a $30 Samsung “T-Mobile Pay as You Go” phone, and it works infinitely better.
W490 Texting is horrible and laggy, it holds very few songs, even with a 1 gig memory card in it, the RINGTONES end up in the MP3 player (yeah, you’re into your music, just spacing out, then you heat the T-Mobile Jingle. Not cool.)It doesn’t pick up good signal, and sometimes it just doesn’t receive calls or voicemail.
I want to get the Kelly green W490 and the color looks fine on the internet. but i saw another person with this phone and the color green on the bottom half totally did not match the color green on the top half. does anyone else notice this or was it just that phone?
I love my motorola w490. Its tough and sooo pink… And I mean tough my aunt ran it over with a quad and it didnt even crack. I just cant figure out to down load music onto it with the memory card… It took me 5 days to figure out to move the pics from my phone to my cmputer… Im technologically challenged, but other than that its the best phone I have ever had…