The Walkman series by Sony Ericsson is a flagship series that can be held responsible for creating mammoth waves in the world of mobile telephony. It is a one of its kind series that includes music-based handsets that delivers exceptional looking handsets with an even more exceptional sound quality.
The W580i is part of this same prestigious range of phones. It is a quad band GSM and EDGE phone with a plethora of exciting features. This slim and compact slider phone weighs just 94 grams, making W580i a light weight handset that can fit in your front or back pocket easily. The handset boasts of a QVGA 2" screen, 12 MB of available storage, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP support, an M2 slot, a 900 mAh battery, a 2 MP camera, and an FM Radio with RDS.
The phone can be your best buddy if you are a fitness freak. The has a calories/weight counter that saves the information in the .xls format, and also allows you to share the information with your friends and family. The handset also incorporates a track & field manager. Plus, there is a cute little application that lets you know how many steps away cities of the world are.
The music player in the phone is a nice piece of technology that keeps you occupied and entertained whenever and wherever the need be. It might not have been able to beat the iPod, but has been successful in providing the users with a rich musical experience. The handset is able to playback MP4 video in QVGA size, even though its camera can barely be termed as providing satisfactory results.
The battery life of the Sony Ericsson W580i is known to easily manage about 7 hours of talk time and about 7 days of standby. With all this and more, the handset can be said to be an all-rounder with all the features and specifications expected in a new age high-tech phone.
