Sony Ericsson W580i
Discontinued 27th March 2007
A rare slider phone from Sony Ericsson,
the W580i is a slim "Walkman" branded device
with a QVGA display and a 2 megapixel camera.
Sliders are few and far between in the
Sony Ericsson range, the W850i
is one other one with a confusingly similar name. However,
the W580i is a quad band GSM device, rather than the
3G W850i.. but even so this is an attractive and interesting
handset in its own right.
The
W580i's specifications are decent enough, but not
groundbreaking. There's a 2.0" 240x320 pixel display
in 262,000 colours, a 2 megapixel camera, FM radio,
Bluetooth (although it is not clear if this is stereo
Bluetooth), expandable memory using Memory Stick Micro
cards (up to 2GB with 512MB supplied as standard) and
the W580i is available in two colour schemes - the traditional
orange and white as seen on the original W800,
plus a more subdued "urban grey" theme. Sony
Ericsson fit all of these features into a handset just
14mm thick and weighing a pretty reasonable 94 grams.
As you would expect, the Sony Ericsson
W580i comes with the well-regarded multimedia setup
found in other Walkman branded phones, plus a web browser,
email client, RSS reader and those applications that
you might just use once and then forget about (VideoDJ
springs to mind).
It's a little bit more that just a standard
Walkman phone with a slider - the Sony Ericsson W580i
comes with a range of applications to help with your
personal fitness regime, including a calorie counter
and pedometer also the W580i doesn't appear to
be ruggedised in any way.
The W580i also supports EDGE data in
addition to quad band GSM and GPRS. Maximum talktime
is quoted as an impressive 9 hours with up to 14 days
standby time.
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Sony
Ericsson W580i at a glance
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Available:
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Q3
2007
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Network:
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GSM
850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
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Data:
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GPRS
+ EDGE
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Screen:
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240x320
pixels, 262k colours
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Camera:
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2
megapixels
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Size:
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Medium
slider 99 x 14 x 14mm
/ 94 grams
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Bluetooth:
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Yes
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Memory
card:
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Memory
Stick Micro
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Infra-red:
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No
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Polyphonic:
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Yes
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Java:
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Yes
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Battery
life:
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9 hours talk / 14 days standby
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