Motorola W409G Review

Still working out on basic phone market, Motorola released its very basic phone namely Motorola W409G. Everything on this phone comes in a simple and minimalist way, both on its design and on features. In details, here is the review of the phone for your reference.

Motorola W409G

Motorola W409G comes with a clamshell phone measuring 97 x 48 x 18 mm and weighing 77 grams. The phone is designed in a minimalist and simple appearance. Similar to other clamshell phone these days, it also comes with external display. The external display features monochrome screen that shows signal strength, profile status, battery life, date and time. Above the screen, there is a camera lens. Around the phone’s side, there are microUSB port, volume rocker keys, and 3.5 mm headset jack. Flip open the clamshell phone to reveal the internal display that features 1.8 inches display with 128 x 160 pixels resolution and 64k colors supports. The keypad below the internal display is arranged in a simple way consisting of navigation array and alphanumerical keypad. Navigation array consists of two soft keys, a camera key, a back key, a Send key, an End or Power key and a square four directional pad.

Keep in mind that Motorola W409G is a basic phone, not a smartphone. Therefore, do not look ahead to great features or performance. It can be said that it is very basic phone with calling and texting features as its main features along with other basic features. In term of connectivity, Motorola W409G operates under dual band GSM (850/1900 MHz) network. It also manages to support GPRS and EDGE data network. Due to its low data network, opening WAP web pages become very slow. Other connectivity includes Bluetooth and microUSB connection. Coming to its messaging features, Motorola W409G only offers text messaging (SMS) and multimedia messaging (MMS). Unfortunately, there is no standalone email clients’ service but you can still open your email through web browser.

For multimedia features, Motorola W409G delivers poor performance. The camera that is located on the front side of the phone (clamshell closed) only comes in 2 megapixels camera with no flash and no autofocus. It manages to capture images up to 1600 x 1200 pixels resolution but the qualities are still average mostly poor. Luckily, it can also be functioned to record video. To store data, it provides external memory via microSD card up to 32 GB along with its internal memory. Other multimedia features include music player and FM radio, no standalone video player appears.

Notification types available on Motorola W409G include Polyphonic ringtones, Vibrate mode, and Flight mode. Phonebook provided is able to save up to 500 entries whereas each entry supports multiple phone numbers, picture caller ID, ringtone ID and other related information. Motorola W409G also comes with other features such as alarm, calculator, organizer, calendar, clock, call waiting, voice memo and speakerphone. To support all of its features, Motorola W409G comes with powerful Li-Ion battery. Powerful as it can last up to 6 hours of talk time or up to 16 days of standby time.