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Posted: 23 Apr 2010 Announced: 20 Apr 2010
Market Status: Released
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The Motorola WX290 comes with 1.8-inch screen, built-in VGA camera, MMS capabilities, LED torch-light, Bluetooth 2.0, WAP 2.0 browser and FM radio with RDS.

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Motorola WX290 US specifications

Pros

Small dimensions (4.24 x 1.78 x 0.56 inches)
Built-in flashlight

Cons

Low pixel densitiy screen, below 180ppi (116 ppi)
Low resolution display (128 x 160 pixels)
Lacks global positioning system (GPS)
Low-resolution camera (0.3 megapixels VGA)
The camera lacks autofocus
Lacks a standard (3.5mm) headphones jack
Lacks an ambient light sensor for automatic screen brightness adjustment

Design

Device type:
- Budget phone
Form factor:
Form factor - Refers to the form factor of a phone. The main handset designs are bar, clamshell, slide, swivel
- Candybar
Dimensions:
- 4.24 x 1.78 x 0.56 (107.6 x 45.3 x 14.3 mm)

Display

Physical size:
- 1.77 inches
Resolution:
- 128 x 160 pixels
Pixel density:
Pixel density - The pixel density of a display represents the number of pixels over an area of one inch. It’s measured in “pixels per inch”, or ppi. The higher the number, the more detailed and good-looking the display is.
- 116 ppi
Technology:
Technology - There are two main screen technologies currently used in phones and tablets: LCD and AMOLED. The former usually features a light source and liquid crystals, while the latter is based on organic light-emitting diodes. Newer LCD variations like IPS-LCD and Super-LCD allow for very accurate color reproduction and very wide viewing angles, where no significant image quality loss is observed. Current AMOLED screens differ in such a way that they can exhibit much more saturated colors (sometimes too much) and incredibly high contrast levels, which is due to black color being completely black in AMOLED displays.
- TFT
Colors:
Colors - Shows the number of colors that the display supports
- 65 536

Battery

Talk time:
Talk time - Maximum talk time in hours
- 8.00 hours
  the average is 8 h (497 min)
Stand-by time:
- 24.2 days (580 hours)
  the average is 21 days (496 h)
Capacity:
- 750 mAh

Hardware

Storage expansion:
- Slot Type:
  - microSD
- Maximum card size:
  Maximum card size - Shows the capacity of the memory expansion slot that can be added
  - 2 GB

Camera

Camera:
- - 0.3 megapixels VGA

Multimedia

Radio:
- - FM, RDS

Internet browsing

Browser:
- - Yes
- Supports:
  - WAP 2.0

Technology

GSM:
GSM - Global System for Mobile communications. A world standard for digital cellular communications using narrowband TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access), which allows up to eight calls at a time on 800 MHz and 1800 MHz frequencies. Introduced in 1991. Is the standard most commonly used in Europe and Asia, but not in the United States. GSM phones use a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) smart card that contains user account information. Any GSM phone becomes immediately programmed after plugging in the SIM card, thus allowing GSM phones to be easily rented or borrowed.
- 850, 1900 MHz
Data:
Data - Shows the particular phone's type of data. the major mobile phone data types are GPRS, CDMA2000 1xRTT, EDGE, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO, UMTS, etc.
- GPRS

Phone features

Phonebook:
- 800 entries
Organizer:
- Alarm, Flashlight (Standalone unit)
Messaging:
- SMS (500 messages), MMS, Predictive text input

Connectivity

Bluetooth:
- - 2.0
USB:
- - Yes
- Features:
  Features - Universal Serial Bus - is a plug-and-play interface for connection a computer and add-on devices such as joysticks, keyboards, wireless phones, scanner, cameras etc. USB supports hot-swap (ability to add a new device without having to reboot the computer). USB supports data speed of 12 megabits per second.
  - Mass storage device

Other features

Notifications:
- Music ringtones (MP3), Polyphonic ringtones, Vibration, Silent mode, Speakerphone

Availability

Officially announced:
- 20 Apr 2010

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