Sony Ericsson W580i Phone, Jungle Green
Posted by admin | Posted in Gadget | Posted on 18-04-2010
5
- Walkman 2.0 Media Player with one-touch music shuffle and dedicated music control keys on the front; integrated FM radio
- Quad-band connectivity for global roaming and EDGE data network compatibility for AT&T Mobile Music streaming and downloads
- 2-megapixel camera with video capture; Memory Stick Micro expansion; Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR connectivity with stereo music streaming
- Up to 9 hours of talk time, up to 370 hours (15.4 days) of standby time; up to 20 hours of music playback in Music Mode
- Includes: Battery, Charger, Corded Headset, USB Cable, User’s Manual and Quick Start Guide
Product Description
The slim form factor of the W580 hides the Walkman 2.0 music player to make it simple to organize and play your favorite music. Easily create custom playlists. The Disc2Phone music management software and included USB cable make it easy to transfer music from a PC on to the phone. Additionally you can listen to favorite radio programming as the W580 offers an RDS-FM radio. The TrackID feature powered by Gracenote makes it easy to identify music tracks you don’t reco… More >>
Everything is cheap plastic with this phone. You could make a sturdier phone from a PEZ dispenser. I’m an agile fingered pianist with a sensitive touch, but nevertheless all of my keys have split in half. Also, the sticker/emblem on back has popped off. All of this started just a few days after warranty (which is almost immediately).
Rating: 1 / 5
Great features, great look, great price! I installed a 4gig card and all my music is bluetoothed to my home and car stereos. I only with for greater range in the house, but I think all bluetooth has this short range issue.
Rating: 5 / 5
Purchased two Sony-Ericsson w580i’s for my wife and I, about 6 weeks ago.
Good: Small, nice colors available (we have one red and one green), plays FM radio as well as MP3 (when using headset – the headset wire is the FM antenna). Very good sound quality.
Bad: Requires Sony M2 storage card instead of SHDC (more $$). Keypad buttons are a little small. The jog dial is kind of flimsy.
So far I’m very happy with the purchase. The sound quality of the included wired headset is very good, and I can easily switch from music to phone calls. The sound quality of the music is great, and the controls are nicely laid out. I also like the SE PC Suite for synching phone to Windows PC (this is a free download from Sony).
Rating: 4 / 5
I don’t have anything bad to say about this phone. The navigation is easy, the sound is great, the design is slick, the camera is great (for a cell phone), I love it. Ok, the ONLY negative I have to say about it is that I can’t change the colors of the font on my main screen without changing the theme. There are 2 loaded on the phone and I’m not going to download a theme just to have a black font. I’ll deal with it as is. But if that’s the only thing I have to complain about…
Rating: 5 / 5
So far been pretty happy. Went with this one over the other colors since it looked the coolest (note that it may not necessarily indicate it, but some of them are more two-tone). The music feature is pretty neat, I don’t use it as a true Walkman but more as a backup to my ipod. Phone has been fine so far, no dropped calls. I bought this phone for the added features like the radio, the ability to add the 4MB chip (buy it online for like $20) so you have a music and phone player, and the pedometer/step counter. Overall, have been pretty happy.
Only down side is the proprietary power and headset, which is a major drag. While they include an adapter for you to attach a headset (note, NOT a microphone, but a walkman style headset, different size jack), who wants to have to carry that around. I was also a little dissappointed to have to carry around the headphone jack to serve as the radio antenna, but if that means less radio waves going into my head, I’m cool with that.
Overall, 4 stars, still a little too early to rate battery life. I also bought one of those accessory packs only for like $5 that provided a car charger and an extra regular charger and a phone protector. I’ll try and update this review once I’ve had this longer to comment on durability and other factors, but so far, so good.
Rating: 4 / 5