July 04, 2009
The Sony Ericsson W580i is a stylish multimedia cell phone with good performance on all fronts. Tempting to touch, designed to impress. It's all in your moves. The Sony Ericsson W580i has an attractive, easy-to-use design, a satisfying feature set, and admirable call quality. Connect, choose and transfer. The Sony W580I is a superb phone that is going to suit to anyone that is looking for a simple cellphone with amazing functions. Get that amazing gift on Tiger-Direct.com as soon as you can because as you are reading this text, Sony Ericsson W590I might already be sold out as Christmas is coming! Be quick!
Sony Ericsson shakes things up with its new quad-band Sony Ericsson Walkman phone, introducing an innovative "shake to shuffle" feature that randomly chooses another song stored on your phone with just a flick of the wrist. This thin, slider-style phone also features a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, fast Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR connectivity with music streaming, Memory Stick Micro expansion, Web browser for viewing full Internet sites, email access, an FM radio with RDS, and EDGE data support. Sony W580I is definitely a superb phone!
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Sony Ericsson deserves a lot of credit for bringing music to cell phones. Though it was not the first company to develop the idea, its Walkman handsets have consistently combined a robust music player with admirable sound quality. And that was true a long time before the arrival of the ballyhooed Apple iPhone. Now the company has succeeded again with the Sony W580i. Inside a sexy slider design are the usual high-end Walkman features, all of which deliver solid performance. The phone comes in white, black, and gray. We examined the gray model for this review but the features are the same on all models. AT&T has picked up the white model and is offering it at a very reasonable $79 with service. Otherwise, you can buy unlocked phones for $269. To find accessories for this phone, see our cell phone ringtones and accessories guide.
The Sony Ericsson W580i is a stylish slide opening music phone which has been designed to suit all music loving users who like an element of style in their life. The handset is compact & comes with an easy to open slider mechanism which allows the user to view the large colour screen in both its slide open & slide closed position.
Sony W580I Design
The 262,144-color display seems a tad small (2 inches; 240x320 pixels) for the phone's size, but it was nevertheless easy on the eyes. Colors were bright and vivid, and graphics and photos showed up well. Only the screen's brightness level is adjustable. Below are the well-designed navigation buttons, which, as we mentioned, are a step above the unintuitive controls on the Sony W850i. The circular toggle and central OK button are large and tactile, and we liked the blue backlighting. The toggle can be set as a shortcut to four user-defined applications, and you can use it to control the Walkman player when listening to music. Yet we had one small complaint. Though the toggle is raised above the surface of the phone, a raised plastic ring surrounds it. In our experience, our thumb kept hitting the ring when we tried to press the toggle. It's a minor point, but one that's still worth noting.
With a couple of exceptions, Sony W580I still hasn't fully embraced the slider phone trend. In fact, after the Sony W850i, the W580i is only the second slider model from the company that we've reviewed. And fortunately, Sony Ericsson was more successful this time around. While the W850i was bulky and had unintuitive controls, the W580i improves on both fronts. We wouldn't be exaggerating if we were to say the W580i is one of the most eye-catching handsets we've seen all year. It has a sleek shape and compact dimensions (3.9 inches by 1.8 inches by 0.5 inch; 3.3 ounces) that make it easy to take on the go. The slider mechanism is well-constructed; we could open it with just one hand but it wasn't too loose. In the phone's Settings menu you can choose to end calls automatically when you close the phone.
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Of course a phone like the Sony Mobile W580i wouldn't be complete without such offerings as full Bluetooth (including a stereo profile), e-mail support, PC syncing, USB mass storage, a code memo for storing sensitive information, and USB cable support. The handset also capitalizes on its "Walkman" name by offering a number of fitness applications. There's a pedometer for running and walking, a sports trivia game, and a fitness trainer for tracking your workouts. There's even a bizarre yet interesting application that will let you calculate how long it would take you to walk to various world locations from your home city.
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