Sony W580i A flawed gem?

Advantages: Easy to use, great features in an affordable phone
Disadvantages: Poor quality keypad.

...I bought the Sony Ericson W580i as a gift for my daughters 13th birthday, and she loves it. We got her the pink one which was exclusive to Orange shops, so it had to be on an Orange pay as you go, which caused some problems as they refused to offer the texts deal they were advertising at the time. Anyway onto the phone which my daughter mainly uses to listen to music, and make occasional calls to let us know where she is, and text her friends. All of the basic functions are easy for her to use (if not for us old fogies to use) and the 2.0 megapixel camera is ideal for quick snapshots of her and her friends and sisters when they're doing something silly. It all fell down when the keys started cracking though. After 3 weeks of use the first of the number keys cracked, followed quickly by 2 others. We then had problems with the shop we...

titchmarsh1 06.01.2008 (05.01.2008) · Read review
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My Sony Ericsson W580i

Advantages: Thin, Good Memory, Aesthetically pleasing, good value for money.
Disadvantages: Cover is worn quite easily, buttons crack quickly.

...I have had my Sony Ericsson W580i for around 1 and a half years now, after receiving it as a gift from my parents two Christmases ago. The version of the W580i varied to the dark grey and blue one stated in the picture, and was instead a white and orange version, which was bought on a pay and go tariff on o2. I was in desperate need of a new mobile and picked the W580i from the Carphone Warehouse catalogue, as it was aesthetically pleasing and had many advantages over my current mobile; 2mp. Camera, a 512mb memory card, and the new format were also appealing to me. When i first got the phone, i noticed that many of my friends and others i knew had also received the W580i for Christmas - proving it was a popular choice! 17 months on and I?m still using the mobile... Although it is beginning to get a bit dilapidated - possibly due to...

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Sony Erricson W580i

Advantages: free 515mb memory card, extra options, "Shuffle" control and music & picture quality very good
Disadvantages: buttons crack and stop working for no reason at all!

...I owned this phone for just over a year I was on 02 network and I paid £139.99 for it. The mobile phone software is very good but the phone itself is very disappointing!!!!! First of all the Sony Ericsson W580i comes with a 512MB memory card and a 2.0 mega pixel camera. This obviously means that there is alot of space for pictures, music and video files. The picture quality is also brilliant too. The menu's are easily accessable and is practically the same as other Sony Ericsson mobile phones. On the Sony Ericsson W580i you can listen to the local radio station, Play the Games (My phone came with two games), TrackID (This you put your phone next to a speaker and the song is ID'd but comes with a price), Video Player. A "Video dj" Which allows you to add your videos together, PhotoDJ which allows you to edit...

cwishay 27.11.2007 (21.03.2009) · Read review
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Sony Ericsson W580i

Advantages: Good all round phone
Disadvantages: None

...I have owned this phone for about a month now, on a pay monthly orange contract. I have had sony ericsson phones since 2005, and will probably never go back to another brand. Sony Ericsson has the easiest user interface (once you get used to it, as with all phones) and they are built like bricks. Needless to say, i was just as impressed with this phone as I was with any others I have owned. Having read reviews about buttons cracking and the phone freezing and crashing, I decide to chance it anyway, such was my faith in Sony Ericsson. I have experienced none of these problems, and, again, as with my other phones, I have managed to bounce it down the road a couple of times without more than a slight chip in the casing. The number buttons are quite close together, but they are also quite large and responsive so texting is not a problem, as...

kiara5162 16.07.2008 · Read review
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Sony Ericsson W580i

Advantages: slim, light-weight, feature packed phone
Disadvantages: Battery life could be better

...I have had Sony Ericsson phone for the last 3 or 4 years now and am very happy with them. I find they are the easiest to use (nokia come very close) and they are good quality feature packed phones. This phone is not an exception. If you have used Sony Ericsson before you will be familiar with most of the features on this phone - the only difference really is the appearance and one or two features have been added or upgraded. If you are considering getting this phone, I would imagine you won't have to pay for it, it will be free on most contracts or around £200 sim-free! Shop around for the best deals? As this is a slide phone, you can answer a call by simply opening the phone up and end the call by closing it?it also locks automatically when it is closed which is good. The camera on this phone is 2megapixels. In good light...

haji4746 20.09.2007 · Read review
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Sony Ericsson W580i in Pink!

Advantages: Nice little compact phone with plenty of features.
Disadvantages: Needed external memory stick in order to make full use of Walkman feature.

...I had the Sony Ericsson W580i as a temporary replacement when my other phone needed repairing. It cost me just £60 for the pink version as it was a customer return, not used but the seal on the box had been broken. Anyway back to the phone; was pleasantly surprised by how powerful the phone was considering how small and lightweight it was compared to my previous one, it weighs around 94grams. The menu function was clear and concise and it was easy to find what I was looking for. I found it quick and easy to enter additional contact infomation that wasn't stored on my Sim Card, and the whole phone was simple to navigate. The sound clarity when using the Walkman function was very clear and a novel way of shaking the phone to get to the next track was a lot less fiddly than having to keep going into the menu function. The phone...

lisajay 06.11.2008 · Read review
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W580i sony ericsson walkman phone

Advantages: good for music and entertainment in general. Pedometer feature and shake feature v good
Disadvantages: pricey and buttons can be annoying at first

...I had never had a sony ericsson before and some how i got the impression that they would have been complicated to use. How wrong I was!! Being strictly a nokia buyer in the past i had felt a little aprehensive about this purchase. I got the phone for around 150 pounds in Argos which was a special deal on pay as you talk vodafone. I was surprised at the slim body of the phone as sony ericssons in the past have been chunky. It fits very nice in the hand and looks very smart . The phone came in a really smart little red box like a cube with software for the computer,a cable,instructions, headphones and charger. I couldn't wait to use my new purchase so i plugged it in for charge and turnt it on and it already had half a battery which was a very nice thing if you want your new phone straight away. You have to get used to...

shiv24 18.10.2007 · Read review
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the sony ericsson w580i

Advantages: light gd memory
Disadvantages: battery doesnt last tht long

...i find that the sony ericsson w580i is a very neat and compact phone it has a very slick look to it and keeps up with the standars of todays technolagy i enjoy using this phone very much but there are quite a few disadvantges to this phone 1 which i find is quite a big thing is that it does not hav a flash on the camera which i find is quite important because if u like to take pictures whilst you are out and about at nite time the picture quialty can be quite poor another thing i find with this phone is that the battery does not last longer than a day and if you are out and do not hav a charger then you are stuffed. but the reason i highly rate this phone is because it is very light and on the sides of the phone it has flashing lights of all colurs tht flash to the sound of the music it also has a button which u can press and shake...

LIVERPOOLSTAR 31.08.2007 · Read review
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Sony Ericsson W580i

Advantages: Stylish. Easy to Use. Fantastic Applications. Great Sound.
Disadvantages: Buttons split easily..

...you can input your personal details and use the pedometer which counts your steps everyday and measures who many calories you're burning.. My phone also includes many other great applications including Photo DJ, Video DJ & Music DJ and my favourite.. Track ID, which enables you to record a short clip of music from the radio, TV or another external music source and it'll send it over the internet and find the song title, artist and album name it is from [if available] Genius! :) The phone includes some fantastic, modern themes, I especially love the 'Splat' theme :) Camera isnt as great as it could be, but its a Walkman phone.. if you're after a Sony Ericsson with a fantastic camera, go for 'K' range. But for a great looking, easy to use music player phone.. this is definately worth looking at!!...

liannebaybee 24.05.2008 · Read review
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Sony Ericsson w580i

Advantages: Looks Good
Disadvantages: Tends to break after a few months

...with some improvement. From the screen we get to the built in functions. This phone comes with a rather unique function to me, a pedometer. I found this a weird function and feel that Sony are just putting silly functions into their phones. A function that every phone now-a-days has built in is of course bluetooth. The bluetooth is simple to use and is very fast at transferring files. However, after a few months, faults with the functions tend to appear. For example, the keys stop working. This is probably because of the sliding of the screen and causes the wires to break, similar to the continuous bending and twisting of headphones. Overall this phone is only good for the fist couple of months before it starts to play up....

Jammie1000000 05.10.2008 · Read review
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