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Motorola C290

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Motorola C290 Overview: The Motorola C290 is a model mobile phone which is compatible with Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility. It operates on the frequencies of CDMA 800, CDMA 1900, For Bell and Telus Mobility customers, we recommend not trying to use this phone on their networks unless purchased directly from your provider.

Motorola Company Overview: Motorola started as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1928. The name Motorola was adopted in 1947, but the word had been used as a trademark since the 1930s. Founder Paul Galvin came up with the name Motorola when his company started manufacturing car radios. A number of early companies making phonographs, radios, and other audio equipment in the early 20th century used the suffix "-ola", the most famous being Victrola; there was also a company that made jukeboxes called Rockola, and a film editing device called a Moviola.

Audio Playback: The Motorola C290 does not come with an MP3 player.

Video and Picture Taking: The Motorola C290 is not equipped with a camera or a video recording function.

Messaging and Internet: The Motorola C290 is capable of surfing the Internet with the built in browser of the phone. Unfortunately, there is no MMS capability. On top of sending messages, the Motorola C290 is equipped with intelligent t9 typing, which allows you to easily type text messages without pressing each key upto 4 times for the correct letter.

The Motorola C290 comes fully equipped with a WAP browser, and additionally an HTML browser for normal web page surfing.. including support for java.

Connectivity and Interactivity: With the C290, you can't really do much when connecting to other devices, since it's USB capabilities are limited to nill.

The phone is equipped with , sound recording , speaker phone .

More information about Motorola C290 is available at the official homepage

Technical Details:

Networks
CDMA 800 and CDMA 1900.
Providers
Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility.
Weight
102 Grams
Case Type
clamshell
Model Year
Not Available.
Size
87x49x24 mm
Volume
-
Battery Type
Li-Ion
Battery Life
3 Hours Talktime, 168 Hours Standby
Faceplates Available?
No.
Internal Antenna?
No. Oldschool External.
Protective Casing?
No, not included.


Mediamedia on the C290:

Camera
Megapixels
Digital Zoom
Video Recording
Camera Flash
No camera.
-
No zoom feature.
-
No Flash.
MP3 Player
No.
Ringtones
Polyphonic Ringtones, MP3/Realtones
Phone Type
FM Radio Tuner
No radio tuner.


Display Features on the C290:

Resolution
Colour Depth
65 k
Screen Size
-
2nd Screen Res
-
2nd Screen Depth
-
2nd Screen Size
-
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At this time, this mobile phone is not compatible with any networks in Canada. This phone was not designed for use on the North American market. This mobile phone will not function on Rogers, Fido, Bell nor Telus.

Additionally, this mobile phone should also function on the US-American mobile networks of Cingular and T-Mobile and International GSM networks.