The Samsung E490 is a 2006 model mobile phone. The Samsung E490 features 65K color OLED display, Stereo Speakers, 40 channels polyphonic ringtones, microSD slot, Class 10 GPRS, 1.3 Megapix camera and EDGE. Mobile-Review reviews the Samsung E490 and writes, “Keeping in mind that the E490 has external stereo-speakers included I had been looking forward to seeing a decent music player in here, but eventually I was deceived with these dreams. The bundled player supports .mp3 and .aac formats and is incapable of working in background mode, thus after launching the application all you have got left to do is close the clam and enjoy your favorite tunes. Standard playback modes are enabled on the E490 – sequential, random playback and shuffle. At that it presented me only with a single playlist, which is very manageable though (track order may be changed manually). Both equalizer and presets are missing on the handset, but in return it empowers with an ability to send tracks over Bluetooth onto other devices and set them as ring tones.”

Fonebiz.co.uk reviews the Samsung E490 and writes, “The Samsung E490 mobile phone has a 1.3 mega pixel camera which can take photos at 1280 x 1024 pixels. The camera is capable of video recording and comes with a Mp3/ AAC/ AAC+ player. The phone also has Java MIDP 2.0. The Samsung E490 mobile phone has a WAP 2.0 / xHTML browser to use with the GPRS facility on the phone.”