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Sony Ericsson W580i Black Phone (AT&T) | 
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| Brand: Sony Ericsson
Category: Wireless
List Price: $399.99
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Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 305
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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| Features:
| • | 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, Headset, USB Cable, Quickstart Guide and User's Manual |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Sony Ericsson shakes things up with its new quad-band W580i 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. 
With AT&T's Mobile Music service, you can access your Napster subscription service for music downloads to keep you booming out the tunes for up to 20 hours. | AT&T Service
The W580i operates on GSM 850/900/1800/1900 networks and can handle high-speed data connectivity via AT&T's EDGE network (which stands for "Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution"), with availability in more than 13,000 US cities and along some 40,000 miles of major highways. This third-generation, high-speed, mobile data and Internet access technology is fast enough to support a wide range of advanced data services (with average data speeds between 75-135Kbps), including video and music clips, full picture and video messaging, high-speed color Internet access, and email on the go. The phone has a built-in web browser for MEdia Net downloads and mobile web browsing. AT&T's MEdia Net service enables you to receive and send emails, read news headlines, get weather updates, download games and ringtones, and more. It also features AT&T Mobile Music, which provides access to the Napster subscription music service in addition to Music ID song-recognition software, music videos and The Buzz music news portal. (A MEdia Max subscription bundle is recommended for accessing AT&T's Internet, video, and music services.) Phone Features
The W580i Walkman phone offers a full-function digital audio player that's compatible with MP3 and AAC files. The front of this slider phone includes dedicated music control buttons, and it includes Sony Ericsson's innovative "shake to shuffle" feature. With Shake control activated, press and hold the Walkman key and flick your wrist. A vibration lets you know that the track has been changed--a new song from your current playlist is randomly selected and automatically played. With the TrackID service, you can identify any song that you can hear by just recording a snippet of sound using the microphone. After sending the file for recognition, you'll have the name, artist and album sent to your phone. Other Walkman features include MegaBass enhancement for added depth of sound, a flight mode that lets you keep listening to tunes with the phone's network connectivity turned off, and Disc2Phone software for easy transfer of song files between phone and PC. It also includes a built-in FM radio with RDS, which displays the name of the currently playing song (when tuned to compatible radio stations). This phone provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity with EDR (enhanced data rate), and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and audio/video remote control. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking--surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server. The built-in 2.0 megapixel camera captures stills and video--and playback of video or still pictures is only limited to the memory card size. Picture effects and custom screensavers, backgrounds, and themes can be setup to fit your personality. It provides support for PictBridge technology so you can print your photos without the need of a PC (either using USB or Bluetooth). And the W580i makes it easy to send snapped photos directly to a blog or an online photo, complete with text. This phone is also compatible with RTSP/3GPP streaming video playback You can even take your favorite tracks to the track with the W580i, which will count your steps, your calories and monitor your running speed/distance/time with the integrated motion sensor. Your workout results are stored in your phone so you can monitor your progress. The phone also ships with a built-in email client with support for POP3 and IMAP4 protocols, while the included Access NetFront Web Browser allows you to surf full HTML web sites. It also supports RSS feeds, allowing you to use your phone to view up-to-the-minute news and other content from selected Web sites and blogs. Just subscribe to the feed and let it come to you. Support is built in for sending and receiving text, video, graphics and sound via messages. The phone also supports the SyncML PC synchronization standard. This means the phone can be used with the included Sony Ericsson Sync Station software, which lets you synchronize your Microsoft Outlook calendar, contacts, notes and tasks on your PC with the phone. Other features include: - 2-inch LCD with a 240 x 320-pixel resolution and support for 262K colors
- Up to 1000 contact entries, each with five number fields
- Built-in pedometer and fitness applications
- Picture blogging with Google Blogger
- Mobile email and messaging via AOL/AIM, Yahoo!, and MSN
- Java support for online and offline 3D games (preloaded games include PacMan and Ms. PacMan)
- USB 2.0 wired connectivity with mass storage capability
- PIM functions including calendar, tasks, notes, alarm, calculator, stopwatch, and timer
- T9 text entry technology
- 72-chord polyphonic ringtones and MP3 ringtones
- Digital audio file formats: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+
Vital Statistics
The W580i weighs 3.32 ounces and measures 3.9 x 1.85 x 0.55 inches. Its 930 mAh lithium-polymer battery is rated at up to 9 hours of talk time, and up to 370 hours of digital standby time; the phone will also play for up to 20 hours when in Music Mode. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 44 more reviews...
 FLIMSY October 4, 2008
G. Geoffroy
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. And, the menu keys have lost their sensitivity. Also, the sticker/emblem on back has popped off. All of this started just a few days after warranty (which is almost immediately).
 Good solid phone; lots of features September 26, 2008
David (California)
I've owned this phone for nearly a year. My wife's started crashing on her, but AT&T replaced it under the warranty. Except for that, this phone has been great. It's quite easy to use, syncs to my Mac nicely, and has a nice screen. The battery life is fine for my uses (charge every 3-4 days, but I don't talk much). It will run java applications and whatnot. However, and this is sad, the best feature is that you can disable the stupid press-to-connect-to-the-internet button only by manually setting up about three different dummy internet profiles. If you don't do this, you'll accidentally start the web browser all the time because AT&T in their supreme greed force you to have a dedicated button for that (expensive) feature. So once you can disable it, it's a great little phone.
Tried six different phones -all bad! September 25, 2008
David (NYC USA)
My wife and I both had 580i phones. AT&T customer service replaced both phones twice. That's six phones over a six month period. Audio was very difficult to hear. Unclear sound on two of the phones. Marginal sound quality on the others. Two phones would not take a recharge properly. Factory chargers would bring up " must use an Ericcson battery" when I was using the supplied AC charger. This happened on two of the phones. Battery could not be recharged. We are Mac people. The phones would not function with a Macintosh. The music function is is a PC only deal. All of our MP3 files were useless and could not be downloaded. We loved the size, the look, the slider, and the supposed functionality. It sometimes easily called accidentally from our pocket. The calling lock was not satisfactory. Finally all of the phones were stolen by an intruder. What a relief! AT&Ts customer service for this phone vascillated between terrible and great. Once they "forgot" to send us a replacement phone. Several support people hung-up on us - and never called back. They sent a phone to the wrong address. Others were wonderful- overnighting ASAP and treated us great! AT&T lacks oversight. Would only give us the same phones back. I am an executive with a company that includes Sony and AT&T as clients - otherwise I would leave my full name.
Never, never order a 580i. Beautiful but...
 Poor basic funtionality September 8, 2008
Jer Bear (Ouachita National Forest, United States)
As others have pointed out this phone has a number of design flaws. I'm a user that expects a phone to be a phone 1st and once it has that functionality down cold then start adding the bells and whistles. (Sounds a lot like what we've been wanting out of computer manufacturers for years, doesn't it?)
1. The phone can easily become unlocked and make calls. My daughter's phone called me while she was sitting next to me in the car and her phone was in her pocket.
2. The interface is not customizable. You cannot remove the unwanted icons (advertisements) from the interface nor can you change the icons to text.
3. Speed Dial is poorly done. Having to push 2 buttons is not speed dial by most people's definition, at least not those of us who are used to 1 button Speed Dialing. Voice dial isn't any better, at least mine can't seem to understand what I'm saying so it's hard to set up and only has a 50-50 chance of working when I want to dial with it. This is probably because it uses voice tags rather than true speech recognition, but I don't know. Plus, the voice recognition requires that you wait for a tone that is so soft that it can only be heard in the quietest of conditions- certainly not in the car where you might want to use voice dialing.
4. The menus are overly complex and convoluted. Even the "expert" at the phone store kept getting lost and basically stumbled on most of what she was looking for or trying to show us.
5. There is no direct access button to the camera. All my other phones have had a button on the side that allows quick access to the camera or I could change the functionality of a button to perform that function, because isn't that what you really want with a phone camera. I mean, it's not high quality so shouldn't it at least be easily and quickly available?
6. The only shortcuts that can be changed on the phone itself are the 4 direction buttons. Nothing else on the phone can be customized, so I have a number of buttons I don't need and would like to use for something else or just disable them entirely.
7. As a another reviewer points out, it is really easy to press the wrong button or one when you don't want to. I keep hitting the down arrow when I slide the phone open.
8. The keypad is small and I find the only way I can dial is with my fingernail. I don't have very large hands at all so this could definitely be problematic for those who do.
9. I also haven't found a way to lock the phone except to open and then close it. And then, once again, I hit the down arrow (see #7) so if I'm not careful I stick the phone in my pocket and it's not locked.
10. A small thing, but annoying: it's incredibly hard to remove the battery cover. As the lady customer who removed it in the store (for the salesperson!) said, "You've got to have fingernails to get this thing off." And even with her fingernails and experience doing it, it was difficult.
The pluses to this phone are that it is attractive, sturdily built, and it sounds good when making calls or listening to music. Also computer access and loading music are both very easy.
For those that have commented that this is a very basic or cheap version of the iPhone, I've gotta say that this ain't no iPhone.
Other than what I've listed, this phone is fine as far as I know. Of course, I haven't had it all that long or used it as a browser.
I realize that some of the things I've listed may not bother some people, but I thought I'd mention them.
 good phone September 8, 2008
SSE (College Station, TX USA)
good phone, happy with purchase, would recommend reading through entire description, compare with other models, esp accessories etc
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