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| Brand: Sony Ericsson
List Price: $399.99
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Rating:  52 reviews
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Color: White
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Model: W580i
EAN: 7311270151969
ASIN: B000UWGSWM
Release Date: August 24, 2007
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Great Phone/MP3 Combo December 16, 2007
HS (CA USA)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I had been looking for the right phone/mp3 combo for quite a while and finally settled on this phone after trying and rejecting the Nokia N75 -- no stereo bluetooth on ATT version, poor battery life. The W580i is a clear winner. Although I wrote much of this review on the phone, I would say that a heavy texter probably won't like the small keyboard.
Design:
Compact form, sharp, colorful screen and sturdy slider. Can answer calls with phone closed (not so N75). Don't like flips, wanted a candybar, but this now feels like a better format. Faux metalic finish on large front nav control already beginning to show the plastic underneath.
Nav buttons on the closed phone are raised, textured, and of different sizes and shapes allowing me to control many features without looking at the phone (not so iphone). This is great for stopping/starting the music player, ending a call, closing out apps.... without looking.
Keys have a nice click but number pad probably too small for heavy texters.
Menus:
Easy to use and logical. Easy transition from my 3 yr old Nokia. Voice recognition is speaker dependent, but works. Don't voice dial much anyways as most calls are on speed dial. Pop up submenus are also great and always seem to be where you expect them.
Calls:
Strong signal, no drops or interference. Sound from the speaker could be a bit clearer, but calls on the included headset are excellent.
MP3/Storage:
This is a really nice interface and the sound is very good and includes an equalizer. It is easy to complain about the proprietary POP port rather than a standard headphone jack, but the included earbuds are just fine for podcasts and non-critical music listening. Better still, their 2 part design allows you to plug in your own standard headphones and use the included headset simply as an adapter. This POP port design is a lot better than the Nokia one. It is easy to insert and remove but still stays put; not so Nokia.
Sony includes a POP to USB data cable, but Sony's included Disk2Phone music management software hangs up under Vista. Fortunately the phone synchs fine with Windows Media Player. Maintains tracks by album and artist automatically, but playlists can only be created on the phone. Album art gets transferred too, but only in a very small thumbnail (bet there will be a firmware upgrade to allow viewing full size).
Other phone management software works just fine and the phone shows up as just another drive in Windows, so you have access to all music and photos that way too. Threw away all the kid pics in my wallet and just copied the jpg's to the phone. POP to USB doubles as a spare phone charger.
M2 memory: yeah, another proprietary memory format from Sony. Don't worry, available cheap over the net with an adapter to allow use in any modern memory card reader. 2GB works just fine. I hear 4GB is out now. Inserting and removing is not very fun, and the card cover feels flimsy. Who cares, just use the included data cable and leave the memory alone.
Photos: Wow, not bad, but not why I bought the phone. No flash, still cant get zoom to work.
Web/Email: sorry haven't used these.
Other: Cute fitness apps, plus usual calculator, stopwatch, calendar... It's all here. Have not tried synching w/ Outlook or the like.
Battery life: Excellent. Play music, make calls, take photos, never use up more than a 1/3 of the battery in a day.
Myths: Battery cover hard to remove? Not for me. Slide a thumbnail in the crack, pop off cover. Cracking keys -- maybe, but not sure how much abuse you need to throw at them to make this happen.
Summary: Need a great phone and music player without heavy texting. This is it.
Small, dainty, NOT white November 10, 2007
W. A. Carino (Sacramento, CA USA)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
I've had the phone for a little under 30 days now. I doubt this review will be much help. I love everything about this phone except:
Battery cover is difficult to take off. I found myself using the point of a letter opener to try to pry it open. If you take it off every other day, it gets easier! Trust me, it really does! You'll also need a long fingernail or a thin card (i.e., driver license or credit card) to insert the SIM card or the M2 card in place.
Battery life is hit or miss. At first, it only took about 3 days until I had to recharge the phone. I blame this on my curiosity of trying everything out. To make your battery last longer, turn off the flashing lights, reduce the backlight to 50%, and turn off the screensaver. Now, I'm getting about 5-6 days on one single charge.
My phone is NOT white like what Amazon or any other website says. Depending on the light, it's sort of silverish/whitish. But I'm not complaining...I looove the color.
Compared to my old RAZR phone, this phone is dainty. With the phone closed, it fits in the palm of my hand. Some people look at me funny when I'm talking on the phone. WHY is that guy talking in his hand? :-)
The headphone jack is a bit bulky, if you try to put it in your pocket. I wish you could just insert the headphone jack like you see on Ipods.
Not sure, if anyone else might be having this problem, but I found the phone charges faster on the wall jack - NOT the USB jack to the PC. On the wall jack, it takes 2-3 hours to charge. On the USB jack, it took almost 7 hours to charge, but only charged up to about 95% (It was time to go home from work!).
...and the one thing I'm looking for...something with a case where you can wear it on your arm and operate the keys while working out!
HUGE improvement from the RAZR.
 This Is The Ultimate Phone! March 3, 2008
Martin A Hogan (San Francisco, CA.)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
I'm not going to repeat what you can read above other than what is really, really special about this phone over others.
It is a slider phone, instead of a flip, so I can have it open on my car's dash and it's slim to fit in any pocket. The buttons are small, but we are all used to that by now. Sure it also has the obligatory camera and video, but it is 2.0 mega-pixels which is better than most. It provides support for "PictBridge technology" so you can print your photos without the need of a PC, but again, 2.0 mega-pixels is good for the internet, built not great for printing out.
It is a Walkman that shuffles the songs with just a shake of your wrist. With the "TrackID" service, you just identify any song that you can hear by just recording a bit of the song (using the microphone, like at `Starbucks'). Later, you can send the file for recognition. It gives you the name, artist and album right to your phone. That's cool.
You have FM radio access and a slot for extra memory for songs, pics, video, etc. The ear buds are actually good quality and are attached along with a microphone (for hands free or finding that bit of song). It has all your high-speed mobile internet access, web browser, email, messaging, Java support needs and plenty of the basic games and is "Bluetooth" compatible.
If you like listening to music while working out, the integrated motion sensor counts your steps, your calories and monitors your running speed, distance and time. Your workout results are stored in your phone so you can monitor your progress.
There is even a calendar, place for notes, an alarm, a calculator, stopwatch and timer! There are plenty of good free ring tones and more you can buy on-line. There's more!
But what I like best is this phone has one of the cleanest, clearest and brightest (adjustable for night) screens available. I intentionally bought this so I can use my "Allen Sports GPS" system with it. It just has everything but that silly kitchen sink!
Lovin' this phone! September 25, 2007
Tina Sexton
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
So far so good.... I got the phone the other day and I couldn't be happier. It looks good and sounds great! It is slick and just really fun to play with. I changed cell carriers and I am really happy with AT&T now. THe only thing that I have to get used to is the small number keys. I think the reviews before me (at least 2 of them) sum up the functions of the phone. I have had no problem playing music. I downloaded some MP3's onto my memory stick and all is working well. I even listen to the FM tuner, it's fantastic. I am REALLY happy with this phone.
 Returned them and bought Motorola phones instead. December 12, 2007
G. Gulley (Chicago, IL USA)
12 out of 26 found this review helpful
Bought two of these phones for a family plan. Call quality was terrible on both (in the city of Chicago!). Lots of dropped calls, static, etc. Phone is cheap plastic (our new Motorola Razr and Krzr phones have metal housings, very nice). Typical Sony poor build quality. While trying to get the battery cover off of one of them, I ended up accidentally popping off the Sony Ericsson logo which was glued to the cover! I'd like to see anyone remove an Apple logo from an iPhone. Based on forums I've seen, I'm not the only one who had trouble with this.
The user interface is mediocre, meaning it's typical for a cell phone. One highly annoying problem is that I couldn't see the time on the main screen because of the color of the font blends in with the wallpaper pattern. And Sony only provides two themes, which do not appear to have any way of setting the font color. The only solution is to customize the wallpaper with a picture that doesn't blend with the font color.
Oh, and to listen to headphone using the so called "Walkman" feature? You have to use a special Sony adapter (included in the box) with plugs into the charging port, then plug the headphones into that. Now, this is the same as my KRZR, EXCEPT, the Sony adapter is this huge bulbous thing that sticks out of the side of the phone. Terrible ergonomics. It's readily apparent how Sony lost to the iPod just by looking at these terrible design decisions. I could just picture a product designer at Apple handing a design like this to Steve Jobs, telling him this is the new version of an iPod or iPhone. They'd be in surgery about an hour later trying to get the thing extracted from various body cavities.
I'm glad these phones are out of our lives. My wife hated them as much as I did.
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