Sony Ericsson W580i Unlocked Cell Phone with 2 MP Camera, MP3/Video Player, Memory Stick Micro–U.S. Version with Warranty - Buy Cell Phone | Cell Phone Review | Best Cell Phone Deals

A long-time Motorola phone user now converted. Not only is this phone lightweight and amazing looking, it’s feature packed.

Pros:

- Crystal-clear calling. No static and loud when needed.

- The screen is amazing. The resolution is awesome. By far the best I’ve ever seen on a phone this size.

- This phone is tiny; in a good way. Super-slim and tucks nicely in your pocket. Being that it’s a slider, you’ll never have to worry about pocket-dialing.

- The software is very easy to navigate. This is nicely improved over the Motorola interface of my older RAZR.

- The MP3 player rocks; no pun intended. The Walkman software lets you sort by Artists, Albums, Tracks, Playlists and more. This is light-years ahead of the my old RAZR’s MP3 player. This one rivals any standalone MP3 device I’ve used.

- The stereo headphones that comes with it include a 3.5mm adapter. While the included headphones sound great, this adapter gives you the flexibility to use your Bose, Shure or other stereo headphones. A very nice option.

- Carbon grey and anodized blue color is slick; nothing else like it. The back side of the phone, when in the up position, is where the anodized blue metal is. Amazon doesn’t show a photo of it. It is stunning.

- Unlike “some” other sliders, the camera is protected and kept under cover when the slide is closed. This works great in keeping dust off the lens.

- The 2.0MP camera is actually pretty good. It takes great outdoor photos.

- I LOVE the fitness/step counter. It measures distance in steps and calculated miles along with the calories you’ve burned. It also keeps a daily average and each days results.

Cons:

- No 3G

- Sony Proprietary Memory Stick Micro M2 versus easy to find and less expensive MicroSD

- No LED Flash or Photo Light

In conclusion, if you are looking for a super-slim phone with great call quality and superb music capability, look no further. This Sony wears the Walkman name with pride.

UPDATE 9/27/07: I bought a SanDisk SDMSM2-4096-A11M 4GB Memory Stick Micro (M2) and it works perfectly. 4GB of music!!!

Rating: 5 / 5

I bought my second Blackberry by Amazon, the first one which was a BB Pearl was excellent, but this time I can’t say the same thing.I live abroad so I didn’t see the telephone until the end of August, when I came back to my country I tried the phone and since the beginning it had a lot of problems, first of all the icon of BB messenger was not there, (I downloaded),the only language it had was English, then it goes off if I talked more than 1 minute and the noise you hear is awful. If you connect the phone it works perfectly, but even if you download a program it goes off, I reset it a couple of times but the problem continues. I really don’t know what to do any suggestions? I also read all the reviews and they were fine.

I feel very dissapointed and I’m not planning to buy more phones through Amazon.
Rating: 1 / 5

I have used RAZR, PPC phone, and other “state of art” phones. I think this SE W580i is the best phone I’ve had. Of course, this is from my personal preference. I don’t like big and heavy phone with short battery life time – like PPC phone. I don’t and won’t ever like text messaging or watching video over phone screen. But I like small and long-lasting device with multiple (and useful) functionalities. Following are what I found with the phone so far

0. This phone is light and small enough for me to do running exercise with. Its size and weight do not bother my running at all. Handfree headset fits well in my ears so while running, any ear piece does not fall off from my ear.

1. Memory Stick Micro (M3) slot with 4GB capacity to store any type of data. With 4GB memory stick micro (about $64 from Amazon) and bluetooth connectivity, the phone can act as wireless multimedia device with 4GB hard drive.

2. 2M camera that is far from perfect but much much better and tolerable than 1M camera from usual phone. picture quality of 1M camera was too terrible to use it for any purpose. But 2M camera actually provides enjoyable and sharable(?) quality of the picture.

3. Media player is very good. It automatically identifies album title, singer, and other info from MP3 and WMA – Yes it can also play Microsoft wma file. This means you don’t have to subscribe anything or download/buy any software to convert your existing music files. You just connect phone to PC with USB adapter or bluetooth, and copy the files into the phone. That simple. About ringtones, as one of reviewer said, you have to make music file size less than 600K to use it as ringtone.

4. handfree headset includes 3.5mm (mini plug) adapter. With the adapter, you can connect your W580i not only to any PC speakers but also to car audio system if your car has 3.5mm Aux Audio port. Luckily, my car has the Aux Audio port. I don’t even use CD changer in the car any more. When I connect my w580i to the Aux Audio port, I can listen to thousands of songs in the small device.

5. Battery life is surprisingly long. Talking life time is about 9 hours as advertised. As I frequently use bluetooth connectivity for various purposes, I always keep bluetooth on in the device. But unlike other phones, the bluetooth connectivity does not eat up battery life that much. In my case, full charge once a couple of days would be enough with bluetooth on.

6. Internet browser has been much improved. It is still not Safari on iphone. It can only read WAP web sites, not normal web sites PC can display. But it has nice zoom capability and tolerable speed. Don’t forget to subscribe a AT&T Media.Net program – cheapest one is $10/Month. Otherwise pay-per-connection may cost you hundreds dollars after you download several files.

7. Email software is automatically checking email arrivals and let you know.

8. Voice Recorder is good enough to record a call session or a lecture.

9. Yes, keys are not big but once you are used to them, it does not really matter.

10. I love screen of this phone. It’s bright and sharp. Still I don’t like to watch TV on it but I love to see pictures taken with the phone on the screen.

Briefly, this is poor man’s iphone. With 2 year contract with AT&T, you can buy this phone from Amazon for 1 cent. The price and many functionalities I mentioned might be the reasons this phone is #1 bestseller in Amazon these days.
Rating: 5 / 5

phones are used and rebuilt, very bad, corrupt company.

Compre 4 telefonos y vinieron malos con defectos por q son reconstruidos los telefonos son unos corruptos ladrones
Rating: 1 / 5

I have had several different phones over the years. I am a long time AT&T, then cingular and now back to AT&T customer. My own preference was to get an unlocked phone and not deal with the locked version (when i wanted to upgrade, the current selections sucked).

I do agree with the previous remark on the keys. They are quite small and from the touch, seem delicate. I sometimes wonder if the keys cracking are due to pressing the keys with a finger nail vs the tip of your finger. Time will tell with this phone. I will remark later if any of my keys start cracking.

The OS on this phone is very good, I used to have a nokia and liked the symbian OS, so this feels very similar to that. The Windows OS for the smart phone is not very good. Actually it was quite cumbersome, all the subscreens and white screens of death (oh yes, even the OS’s they create for phones have this windows fault).

Reception quality has been very good, the camera is ok (no standard flash like the other sony ericsson phones),the fitness feature is interesting (if you exercise enough), Internet Gui is still better the Windows OS version and the phone is very compact.

This phone overall is good, not perfect (what phone is), it gets the job done and has the extra bells and whistles to keep you entertained at church.
Rating: 4 / 5

Sony Ericsson W580i Gray Phone (AT&T)

I’m a former Motorola customer. My last phone was the RAZR. I recently purchased the Sony Ericsson W580i after reading several reviews. The size of the phone is comparable to the RAZR (with the RAZR folded) however I find the W580i more comfortable to hold when placing calls.

This phone is feature packed. The MP3 player has a great interface and is easy to navigate. The shake to shuffle feature is also useful, just hold the walkman button and give it a quick shake, then voila a new song starts playing.

The fitness feature is what sold me on the phone, over other MP3 capable phones. It keeps track of the steps you’ve taken in a day, and if calibrated (easy to do) keeps track of your distance and calories burnt also. There is a training log, and easy to use application to keep track of your training progress.

The phone has the usual calendar and appointment reminder most phones have these days. But the W580i comes with software and a data cable to sync with your Outlook Calendar also. This is a great tool for those who are shy of needing a more powerful PDA, but could still use some help with weekly or daily reminders.

The camera is decent, compared with the RAZR it is fantastic. I do believe there are better cameras out there, but my main concern was the MP3 player, and the camera was an added bonus.

I could write forever about the many features and possible uses for this phone. It is easy to customize, looks stylish, good battery life, and so on. But on top of all this the most important part of a phone should be the phone. The W580i has great call quality and good call coverage. Even my callers claim they can hear me better. What more can you ask for?
Rating: 4 / 5

The phone arrived at time in good conditions, I had some problems with PIN in Movistar, Venezuela. I had to upgrade the software and it works fine. The phone came in english only, but with the new software was solvented, now I have it in Spanish. I repeat, works fine with Movistar, Venezuela, but need a software upgrade.
Rating: 3 / 5

I purchase this phone thinking it was one of the best out there. But is, in fact, a complicated and boring phone.

First of all, is SLOW, way too slow. If i want to take a picture, i literally have to wait for almost a minute and a half for the camera view appear, and then i have to wait another minute just for saving it.

Another thing is the graphics, even though the cellphone has a big screen with a pretty good resolution, all the graphics and themes are horrible.

I put an 8gb microSD card that i used in my previous phone (a nokia) but i cant use the phone as a pent drive, and is REALLY complicated to load photos, videos and music. And if you have a Mac, it is a pain because there’s no official programs that can run in mac os x.

My phone comes with this rare thing that start to call people without me doing anything… and is so annoying!!

Bottom line, this phone is a waste of money!! I feel angry and so disappointed.
Rating: 1 / 5

I’ve had this phone for 2 years now. I needed something light enough to clip on while at the gym. I hate carrying around my cell phone and mp3 player. The radio funtion is also pretty handy when at work. With AT&T, I almost always get indoor reception.

As a bonus, it takes great pictures! I personally love the “bursts” setting which takes 3 images in one second. It also takes great video! The external speakers work just like any other mp3 player, nano, etc. that’s meant to be heard by one or two people. You wanna rock the house… invest is some external speakers.

I also use it for web, texting, checking my e-mails, and playing rockband. Heavy use of these last items would be more convenient on a smartphone. Time for an upgrade and I have my eye on the iPhone, but it’s hard giving up my small phone.
Rating: 4 / 5

I bought this phone and after a week of use, did get locked!… Then after that, the phone does not turn on again!! So, when I did try to fix it at an expert phone company, they told me that the phone was used and repaired, so they can’t fix it in this condition! So BEWARE!!… Stay away of this phone!…

I don’t know what happened with amazon.com, It’s my fist bad experience in 5 years buying from you!!… You didn’t help me with this case!
Rating: 1 / 5