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| Brand: Sony Ericsson
Category: Wireless
List Price: $399.99
Buy New: $0.01
You Save: $399.98 (100%)
Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 387
Color: Pink
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Bluetooth
Model: W580i
EAN: 7311270197110
ASIN: B0012DFMKC
Release Date: January 17, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
Great But I Wish I Had Better Service May 17, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I've had this phone for about a month. It seems sturdy. Getting the battery cover on/off was a HUGE pain but at least I feel confident that it's not going to pop off in my pocket. The screen is bright and shiny and it'll hold a charge for days if you aren't listening to music or surfing the internet excessively. The size is perfect for carrying around in your pocket. The call quality is great, if you have more than two bars, and the speaker phone is nice and loud. It's easy to customize with themes and ringtones and best of all, it plays well with Mac.
Mobile Email: There's no audio indicator to let you know you have received mail. The screen flashes to let you know an email has come thru but there's no sound or icon displayed on the main screen to let you know a message is waiting. Also, the Mobile Email app does not allow attachments so you must use MMS to send photos.
Media Net: It's usually very fast to load but does not allow you to set your own homepage. You HAVE to load the Media Net page first before going to your bookmarks.
Camera: For a mobile phone, the photos are pretty good. There is an option to change the size (VGA, 1MP and 2MP) and the white balance. There's also a very cool panorama setting. There is no flash but the night mode is decent.
Messaging: I LOVE being able to send voice text messages. It's incredibly useful when you're on the go and don't have time to click-click-click just to type one letter. (I've only ever used QWERTY keypads so the click-click-clicking is annoying to me.)
Address Book: To avoid all the typing, I just dragged and dropped my contacts from my desktop address book to the phone's address book via Bluetooth (on Mac OS X).
Organizer: A lot of great features (alarms, fitness stuff, tasks, notes, calendar, timer, stopwatch, etc.) but I do wish there was an easy way to sync it with iCal. It would save me a ton of time.
Music: The radio is great. The MP3 player is great. I love being able to shuffle songs with a flick of my wrist... and being able to listen without having my headphones plugged in.
Games: I haven't explored this yet.
Memory Card: It uses an M2 card which I found easily at Best Buy for $20 (2GB).
My only big complaint has to do with AT&T. I can't even begin to count the number of dropped calls I've had. I was on T-Mobile before this and never experienced a dropped call. Also, the signal strength is sporadic. I've literally seen the bars go from red (no signal) to three blue bars and back again in a matter of seconds with the phone in a stationary position. It's bizarre. Also, I have to go outside to talk because the signal is terrible in my house. According to AT&T's coverage map, I'm considered to be in one of the "best" coverage areas... and yet the best I can get is three bars OUTSIDE.
Great Phone But Additonal Costs May 7, 2008
24 out of 26 found this review helpful
It is a slider phone, instead of a flip, so I can have it open on my car's dash and it's slim to fit in any pocket. The buttons are small, but we are all used to that by now. Sure it also has the obligatory camera and video, but it is 2.0 mega-pixels which is better than most. It provides support for "PictBridge technology" so you can print your photos without the need of a PC, but again, 2.0 mega-pixels is good for the internet, built not great for printing out.
It is a Walkman that shuffles the songs with just a shake of your wrist. With the "TrackID" service, you just identify any song that you can hear by just recording a bit of the song (using the microphone, like at `Starbucks'). This features costs $3.99/month!!! Later, you can send the file for recognition. It gives you the name, artist and album right to your phone. That's cool.
You have FM radio access and a slot for extra memory for songs, pics, video, etc. The ear buds are actually good quality and are attached along with a microphone (for hands free or finding that bit of song). It has all your high-speed mobile internet access, web browser, email, messaging, Java support needs and plenty of the basic games and is "Bluetooth" compatible. You need to buy UNLIMITED DATA USAGE from your server which can be about $20-$40/month!
If you like listening to music while working out, the integrated motion sensor counts your steps, your calories and monitors your running speed, distance and time. Your workout results are stored in your phone so you can monitor your progress. This is free, thankfully.
There is even a calendar, place for notes, an alarm, a calculator, stopwatch and timer! There are plenty of good free ring tones and more you can buy on-line. There's more you can BUY!
But what I like best is this phone has one of the cleanest, clearest and brightest (adjustable for night) screens available. Great phone, but the extras will cost you!
missing features of old versions April 30, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I just upgraded my Sony Ericsson W600i to the W580i. The sound and picture quality is much better and I get better reception but I lost two of my favorite features from the old phone. The W580i does not have a LED light and it will not play mp3 files as ringtones. I really miss having mp3 songs playing as my ringtone.
 4 broken phones March 13, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is an update to my original review dated back in March 2008:
If I could have returned this phone, I would have. AT&T does offer a 1-year warranty with this phone and I've put it to good use. I've had to exchange this phone a total of 4 times now.
The keypad continues to crack after a week or two of use. I've had both receiver and speaker problems where either I can't hear people or they can't hear me. I wouldn't suggest buying this phone (the pink one). However, a friend of mine has the black one and hasn't had any serious problems with it. I did an online search and found that both the pink and white 580i's have had manufacturing issues.
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
I purchased one of these phones 2 weeks ago, only to have the phone die 4 days later (when people would call me, it was like the phone was on permanent "mute"). Plus, my keypad was cracking so I went back to the AT&T store and exchanged it for another one ~ which I've had now for just a little over a week... and the keypad is cracking again! Neither phone was abused in anyway. This phone has a lot of fun features. The sound quality on the MP3 player is great! But after 2 broken phones in less than 2 weeks, I don't plan on getting a 3rd one.
Nice Phone February 21, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
OK, Nothing really fancy. I got it for my wife, she likes it. It has all the basic features and headphones sound good for the music. You need to get the micro card probably other $30 or so a 2gb.It has the basic bluetooth,camera and stuff. The picture resolution is pretty good. It does not have 3G thats a negative. Overall its a good phone, not for guys..It looks like a toy in my hand, but looks good in my wife's hand...
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