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The phone is nice with lots of nice features that I enjoy. The battery life of my phone last me only two to three days, but I talk a lot on the phone. I got my girl friend the same phone and it seems little bit better than mine. So I guess it could be my battery is defective. I ad the 810i before and the reception was great and battery lasted longer. The reception doesn't seem to be as strong and consistant as the 810i. Sometimes it just get NO SIGNAL at all for no apparent reason. I have an aluminum case for it, but it shouldn't be causing problem for the reception... Overall, I really like the phone. The main things that I don't like about is the battery life and reception of the phone. I would say the phone is average.
I bought this phone cause at the time i didnt have an ipod...the sound is pretty good and can hold a lot of stuff like music, pics, and video. However it can be very delicate. If dropped it will break! If youre on a walk and wanting to talk to friends, USE THE HEADSET, it is very easily infected with moisture. As the phone ages the keys become difficult to text with. The camera is decent however i never could take a decent pictue of myself with it...not a good myspace bathroom picture phone! ;-P All in all its not too bad, however i drop phones like there was no tomorrow, and if youre like me, well, i think there are better phones on the market!
I love Sony Ericsson Phones. They have so many features on them that are actually useful. Plus they're durable as all hell. I had my w810i for years and kicked it around, dropped it, smacked it into walls and yet it kept playing. They're not overly bulky but I definately think they can work on that. The W580i slide mechanism is pretty nice. Although it does feel a bit awkward to use it. I wonder if that's why they made it this weird curved shape for better grip? Anyway, some very minor things I don't like about this phone are the inability to set an mp3 as a ringtone. I found that they only way I can do this is to get an mp3 editor and keep the file under 600kb . So you can only have a small snip of a song instead of the whole thing. The problem with this is if you want a lot of ringtones, they're all stored in the same places with your regular mp3's so if you have the walkman function playing on "Play all", it will play the ringtones as well. That's annoying. They really need to let you manage the files from the phone and not just on the computer. Plus if you try and put files on this phone without the supplied software, it screws up the phone. Pretty darn annoying. Another thing that is kind of strange about the phone is the charging connection pretty much sucks. If you don't have it on just right, it doesn't charge. You're stuck fiddling with it until it says "Charging" then you have to put it down delicately to not lose that connection, being careful not to look at it crosseyed or breathe on it wrong because it may jiggle lose and not charge. Yes I've missed work because I thought my phone was charging and it ended up dying mid night. My alarm clock is my phone so it's kind of annoying. Other than this the only complaint I can make is the lack of phone holsters that you can get for this phone that let you open the phone with the holster still attached. If you're any form of a texter, it gets annoying to constantly be removing the phone from it's holster to reply. This is mostly due to the odd shape of this phone. If you have or have seen the phone you'll know what I'm talking about. I've heard complaints of how close together the buttons are for texting but i don't seem to have any problems with that whatsoever. One thing though is that the 1 2 3 buttons are pretty close to the top of the phone where it meets the sliding mechanism and it leaves the top buttons a little hard to push. I could see this being a problem for some of you guys that have the massive sausage fingers. Other than these extremely small things I have to complain about, the phone works well. Maybe not as good reception as my w810i but nothing to complain about. They definately improved volume when talking on this phone over the w810i. This phone rings a bit louder as well which is great for all of us deaf people. I think the vibration function on this phone is weaker than previous Sony Ericsson phones in my past. But that's pretty much it. If you want a multimedia phone that you can take pictures, videos, play music, games, schedule things on your calenders and a ton of other random things (Like the built in pedometer which told me I walked 22 thousand steps at work which said is the equivalent of a 10.3 miles covered and gives calories burned!) This phone is quite amazing.Read full review
It was a cute phone with fun features like light effects and built in animations for text messages. However, be cautious about connecting to the browser when the phone is closed. If you send or read a text message and don't actually go back to the home screen and just close the phone it doesn't lock the buttons even though you have it set to lock upon closing. Very strange glich that took me a few days to figure out why the browser was on without me knowing about it. Also no dial or hang up button..confusing to use the back and clear buttons...and the actual buttons on the phone are very small and these 40 plus year old eyes really coudn't see the numbers even with the cool pink backlight. So I think this is an ok phone for younger girls but be really careful about that internet glich.
The SE 580 is a great phone. The slide action is cool and works much more smoothly than I've seen on similar models from other brands. Reception is awesome. Battery life is better than average. Looks awesome! The buttons are well laid-out making one-handed operation easy for using basic features (like making calls or choosing songs). The small keys, however, make life rough at times for someone with big hands like me. This is NOT a phone for folks that text endlessly. The goofy predictive text feature is a pain to work with and the little buttons ensure you press the wrong key regularly. I don't text, so this is fine by me. There are tons of phones out there for that purpose. This one is made to play music and it does its job well. The Walkman software is easy to use and the provided headphones sound decent. The phone really shines when connected to an external source, like PC speakers or the car stereo. You can jack it into any Ipod ready head-unit using the USB cable. Be sure to buy an M2 memory card to store you MP3s. There's not much room on the phone itself. Sony provides many free software applications making the phone easy to load files onto and the graphics easy to customize. The only problem I've had with this phone is its size. It's small, making it to easy to drop and lose. I'm on my 3rd now, having lost my first and dropped my second (it was then run over). I keep my latest in a skeleton holster (available here on eBay for cheap) and so far, so good. The hard part is fighting the temptation to just slip it into my pocket again... Lesson learned. I know many people who have been less than satisfied with their Sony phones, both older and newer models. I believe they got it right with the 580. I'll keep the one I have for as long as I can. When it finally quits or (more likely) I lose it again, I'll probably buy another.Read full review
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