As the successor of the E680, there are a lot of improvement in E690, the camera is boosted from 0.3 Megapixel to 2.0 Megapixel and it is now only 15mm thick. The phone runs on Intel XScale 312MHz processor and it features 2.4-inch 260k colors 240 x 320 pixels TFT LCD touchscreen, Music playback with the built-in RealOne player and your favorite headphone via the 2.5mm headphone jack, MPEG 4 recording, SD card slot and Bluetooth with A2DP support.
The E690 comes with Picsel which can be used to open Word, Excel files and also can perform biz card recognition. One thing to note is that the phone supports only USB 1.1.