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| Brand: Sony Ericsson
Category: Wireless
List Price: $399.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 125
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
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Model: W580i
EAN: 7311270170304
ASIN: B000X1M9B4
Release Date: October 15, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great features... INVEST IN THE INSURANCE!!! July 31, 2008
Let me start by saying I love the features of this phone.
MUSIC:
I love that I can create my own ringtones, and drag & drop them like it's a flash drive when hooked up to my computer.
INTERNET:
The internet is a little slow, so you wouldn't want to use this phone primarily for that. I do check my email on it from time to time, but it is very slow.
TEXTING:
As far as ease of texting, the buttons aren't a breeze to push. My razor was faster, and I hated that phone. My texting speed is definitely faster then these buttons can be pushed, so you have to go a little slower.
CAMERA:
The camera is pretty good, but it really needs a flash. I've seen an older Sony phone that looks very similar to this phone, and that phone had a flash. I'm not sure why they would discontinue that, because the older phone had a similar camera and the pictures turned out much better. Even in normal light, it seems like the pictures this phone takes are on the darker side. It's fine if you're just going to take a pic and text it to someone, but I've just purchase a separate digital camera to take more high quality pics.
MAKE SURE YOU INVEST IN THE INSURANCE:
Please be aware that the top buttons started cracking on this phone within 2 weeks of normal use. I never dropped my phone, or did anything besides normal phone use, and yes... all it took was 2 weeks for the buttons to begin to crack. I have now had this phone for 8 months, and some of the cracked buttons have stopped working. Luckily, the phone is still under warranty because I haven't had it that long, but it is still inconvenient to have to take it to the service center to get fixed. If you are unfortunate enough to have this phone past the warranty when the buttons stop working, you're out of luck, so I would suggest investing in the insurance if you purchase this phone.
FEATURES IN GENERAL:
This phone has a lot of features, but definitely focuses on music and ringtones. If you want a lot of features, I would suggest go for it but make sure you invest in the insurance. I was thinking of getting a different phone, but haven't really found one that has as many features as this one. I'll be taking it to the service center (which is not exactly conveniently located) with the next few weeks to get the buttons fixed.
 Mediocre Phone. July 29, 2008
First the good stuff
-- The hardware design is pretty good. The phone looks good, it's flat and fits nicely in a pocket.
-- Works well as a plain phone. Sound quality is good, battery life seems adequate to me. Sound quality of the included ear buds is also good.
Now the bad.
-- The software installed on the phone is extremely 'clumsy'. It feels like an alpha or, at best, a beta version. There are millions of usability issues with the phone that come from the bad software. For example, the phone is extremely hard to unlock. It often takes me 4 or 5 button presses to unlock the phone, which is extremely irritating.
-- The media player interface is also bad. The controls are extremely unintuitive.
-- The phone connects to a computer using USB 1 interface which is extremely slow. I bought a 4GB card to use with the phone and it took it all night to download mp3 from my computer. What is worse, the phone turns off (cannot be used as a phone or to receive phone calls) when connected to the computer.
-- Finally the connector that is used to attach the headphones to the phone is just horrible. Sony chose to use the same 'universal' connector for all external connections -- power, usb, headphones. The result of this is that the connector is huge and flimsy.
My overall conclusion -- no attention to detail. Spend your money somewhere else.
 good experience July 27, 2008
I've had this phone for about four months now and so far there have been absolutely no problems. I am still loving it. The music system is great, with a good interface and nice sound, although you will have to buy an SD card to put into the phone, as it comes preloaded with hardly any memory. But those cards really are not all that expensive anymore, so it's not a big issue. Also, I have a Mac, and although technically the phone isn't supported for Macs, there's bluetooth (which is quite slow) or as long as you have an SD card in the phone, when you plug in the phone the card will show up as an external drive, so it's really not an issue.
As to the issues I've read about various people having with this phone (intermittent signal, static, cracking keys, etc), I have had none of these problems. I have great signal everywhere but the most out of the way places, the keys are still fine despite substantial texting, and personally I feel that the sound quality is excellent- much, much better than my old samsung A437 at any rate.
Also the screen is beautiful- very large and bright, and the camera is the first cell phone camera I've had that actually takes decent pictures. The fact that the lens is covered up whenever the phone is in my pocket and so doesn't get covered in dust and lint probably helps.
To be fair, I do have a friend who got this phone before me and had problems with three different copies before getting a different model altogether. But I feel that he and the people making negative comments are the anomaly rather than the norm here.
 not the best July 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have had this phone for about 5 months. I insisted on a sony ericsson since I loved my last sony ericsson phone. However, I was foolish enough to pay $225.00 with a new 2 year contract at ATT. The biggest problems with this phone are that 3 keys are cracked in half, the battery life isn't very long, it often echoes your own voice back to you and it stores about 3 pictures without an added memory card (my last phone held hundreds). Needless to say I am very disappointed.
Not a keeper July 16, 2008
This was my first 'slider' phone. At first, it was a good phone. Then after about one month it started to delay after clicking buttons. The buttons are very flimsy. The phone then started to shut off for no reason (the battery was charged!) The phone is also very delicate and cannot withstand hard falls. I dropped it once and the screen broke.
Overall it looks good, but its performance is lacking. The only thing that was neat (i don't know how accurate) was the pedometer.
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