W580 Walkman Phone For Jogging Bloggers March 27, 2007
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Sony Ericsson’s Walkman line of phones is getting crowded these days. I recently covered the launch of the skinny W880/W888 and the W610, but now we have the W580 Walkman Phone.
Not due out until Q3, the W580 is pretty thin slider at 14mm thick. This is a quad-band phone with a 2Mp camera and an impressive 512Mb of storage. Unsurprisingly there’s a Memory Stick Micro slot that can boost that up to 1Gb. The phone uses the TrackID software which will retrieve the song name, artist and album information based a on a few seconds of a recording you take from the in-built FM radio.
Sony is highlighting the ability to take photos and add text for publishing to blogs, and there’s a pedometer to measure distance, performance and running speed for you active types.
No prices yet but it will be available in white or ‘urban grey’, as opposed to rural grey, I guess.-Martin Lynch
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Comments
hey i was just wondering about the phone because i would really like it.
Can you please reply to my comment with the price of it in the shops and which shops you can buy it in. Thank you your help will be very much appreciated xx
You can get it at the Carphone Warehouse PAYG for £107:
http://shop.carphonewarehouse.com/pay-as-you-go/sony-ericsson/w580i-black/.