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Sony Ericsson W580i White Phone (AT&T) Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: AVOID ALL SONY ERRICSSON PHONES !!!!
Comment: I am giving this phone and other SONY ERICSSON MODELS a BIG ZERO STAR not because it has any functional flaw in terms of lost signals, voice quality, wifi features etc. Even the phone with latest and greatest of features won't last for more than 6 months because of a very simple flaw in their design.

WITHIN A COUPLE OF MONTHS YOU WONT BE ABLE TO CHARGE IT !! When you put the phone on a charger, the battery charges through a pin-point contact. (LOOK AT THEIR CHARGING INTERFACE CLOSELY AND YOU PROBABLY DON'T HAVE TO READ THE REST OF THE REVIEW). Its literally a pin-point contact. After a couple of months the contact becomes dysfunctional as you would expect from such a contact. Compare it to the charging connector you get on other phones.

Me and my wife bought two SONY phones which has the same interface and the contact broke in 6 months on one of the phones. Luckily both the phones were same so we managed to swap the battery each night before we got a new phone. There is no way out of this dead end except throwing that phone because the battery is perfect but you CANNOT CHARGE it !!...

Imagine someone gave you a Macbook Air with 2 spare batteries but you cannot charge the battery. I don't know what the bozos at SONY were thinking when they designed this phone.

And if that is not enough, they have the same flaky interface for transferring data, or connecting their head phone.

If any sane person reads and understands this review he will NOT BUY SONY ERICCSSON phones which have this NOVEL and CRAPPY interface. I am a big fan of SONY and 90% of all electronic items in my house is SONY, but this is ridiculous. The problem is NOBODY will look at this flaw when buying a cell-phone because its so rare that you cannot charge your cell phone even though the battery is fine !!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Try a different slider
Comment: I loved the idea of a slider and this one looks great, but this one has given me nothing but problems! The sliding action is great, but the design for the charger is the WORST EVER!!! I've returned it under warranty twice within the first 3 months of having it! I barely got to even use the FM radio because I couldn't get this stupid phone to hold a charge. It was very frustrating. First they sent me a replacement after less than a month(!!!) and then when it still wouldn't work, they said it was the battery since that's the part I kept. I told them it wasn't the battery but they insisted I try that first. I did and it made no difference. I'm so fed up I just want a new and different phone altogether! Great idea, but it just doesn't work. Like I said, very very poor design for the charger. Also, because of the connection design, the ear piece for the FM radio won't always connect properly either- can't charge it, can't use the ear piece! Try a different slider!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great phone!
Comment: Bought this phone last February and I love it. I have not experienced any of the problems others have mentioned. It has great reception. The few problems I have had are due to where I live, not the phone. My 15 year old niece just got one and she loves it as well. It is also holding up quite well to the demands of a 15-year-old. I would definitely recommend this phone.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: My Beloved Phone
Comment: Christmas 2007 I purchased two of these phones, one for myself and one for my younger brother. Brother's phone lasted two months before the buttons began to crack. Four months into his ownership the screen busted and we had to purchase something else. My phone had been great up until the last month (june) where my buttons began to crack and the phone would "stick"...i would press a button to get to the menu and the highlighted area would stay that way and nothing would happen. I wanted to like this phone, but this a.m. my screen is black! When I turn the phone on I can see a faint red line running from the top of the screen to the bottom. I guess it's over. For these two phones it was over $400 at the time. What a rip off. My fiance's phone is a SE W810i (walkman but not the slider) and it has held up for almost four years now. Good Luck!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: All around good phone
Comment: I've had my w580i for a little over 2 months now and it has been working great. The keypad is easy to use, and the screen is very bright and attractive. I've gotten good battery life with this phone. A charge usually lasts 3 to 4 days, probably because I talk about an hour each day, I rarely text, and I set the screen brightness to 80%. I love the camera, which includes a panoramic feature. The menu is straight-forward and easy to navigate.

At first I was a little skeptical about the slider design, but I find it's easy to open and close one-handed. The only downside I can find about this phone is the darn M2 memory card slot. Why can't Sony just go with the cheaper, mainstream MicroSD cards?

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