The Motorola W490 is a strikingly thin cellular phone that offers svelte design and lots of features. The unit boasts a shiny clamshell form and a meager weight of 3.77 ounces. The overflowing features lie in a number of different areas ranging from productivity to pure fun.

The Motorola W490 is primarily concerned with productivity as evidenced by its many features. These include voice record, alarm clock, calendar, calculator and currency converter. The unit boasts an integrated speakerphone and advance speech recognition.

The unit has MP3, MIDI, I-Melody and AAC supported audio for excellent sound quality that comes into good use with its MP3/AAC enhanced digital music player for songs and ring tones. The unit also has airplane mode for safe access to information while in flight and PIM functionality for organization and ease-of-use.

The W490 also boasts Bluetooth wireless technology and class 10 GPRS. The system uses a wireless application protocol. The W490 offers up to 5 MB of internal memory and an up to 2 GB of removable memory.

Messaging is becoming more and more important in today’s cell phone devices and the W490 delivers. The unit features short messaging services (SMS), enhanced messaging services (EMS) and multimedia messaging services (MMS). The system also supports instant messaging (IM).

Call management features include a jaw-dropping phone book that allows up to 1000 entries on phone plus up to 250 on SIM card. The unit also has VibraCall alert and caller group profiling. There is also a convenient time and date stamp for quick reference on the cell phone.

There are plenty fun personalization features offered by this impressively sharp mobile phone. Users can take amazing pictures using the 1.3 mega-pixel camera with 8x digital zoom and fixed focus. The unit also offers MPEG4 capture and playback.

The Motorola W490 is a prime choice because of its outstanding good looks, excellent sound quality offered by CrystalTalk audio and simple fun offered by downloadable games. It’s a great mobile phone that suits just about every occasion.