Sony Ericsson W580: Stay fit and entertained

Finally, the Sony Ericsson W580 arrived at our test site - a music phone featuring a slim sliding construction, light effects and a pedometer to fulfill all your daily music and sports needs. The handset comes complete with a 2 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, FM radio and a flashy design. Hop on the review express and take a trip with the latest music-minded Sony Ericson W580 - it might just turn out your next mobile handset.

Sony Ericsson W580

Key features

• Intriguing design at only 14 mm thickness
• Comfortable keypad
• 2" 262K color TFT display with a QVGA resolution
• Light effects
• 2 megapixel camera
• Memory Stick Micro card slot
• Walkman 2.0 music player
• FM radio with RDS
• Bluetooth with A2DP support
• GPRS and EDGE
• Pedometer and fitness application
• Data cable, quality headphones and 512MB memory card in the package

Main disadvantages

• Only 12MB of integrated memory
• Sliding mechanism little shaky
• No notification of missed events
• Camera lacks flash and autofocus
• Records video in the outdated QCIF (176 x 144 pixels) resolution only
• Phone won't operate without SIM

The Swedish-Japanese maker has added another slider to its Walkman lineup. The Sony Ericsson W580 joins the more feature-rich but older Sony Ericsson W850 in the company's music slider portfolio. The flagship in this form factor will be the fashionable W910, with sales likely to begin in September 07.

Sony Ericsson W580 is the S500 W-twino the yet-to-come high-born relative: Walkman W910