Hi-Mobile sent us over the Sony Ericsson W580i Walkman feature phone for a review, and we give it a whirl. It's been over a year since the last time we tested the non-smartphone Sony Ericsson platform and it's interesting to see the advancements in the software department.
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Member since:2007-03-26
Only time will tell."
I've never had a problem with any of the Sony Ericssons I've owned. That said, like most people, I upgrade every 12 to 18 months so I've not exactly beaten my phones to their last dying breath.
Member since:2005-08-26
I've a T637 that I've been beating up for over 2 and a half years now.
I expected this phone to last me a year.
It's taken a licking and kept on ticking. Sure, there are things I don't like about it, but I've been unable to find another phone at a price point I'm willing to spend that justifies giving this one the boot.
The worst part is, that Cingular has mostly stopped carrying the good SE phones, and since I'm a bigot when it comes to phones being responsive and not over-blown, I refuse to buy the total Pieces Of Crap that a company that starts with M and ends with otorolla produces. I find Samsungs to be chinsey, and LG's are almost as offensive as Motorolla's piles of shit.
I just want a good, solid, $100 phone that has a non-crippled bluetooth stack. So I can pair it with a laptop. If it plays music, great, but it's certainly not a requirement.
Member since:2006-01-08
I've owned 3 SE phones to this date, all of them were/are lower-end: T310, K300 and W300 (which i'm using right now) and none of them experienced any problems like that. A few of my friends have SE phones (a T610, T630 and 2x K750) and they work fine also.
The k300 after 24 months of usage looked terrible, but was still working fine - i gave it to a friend who exchanged the case and still uses it now.
The way things are going my next cell will probably als o be a Sony Ericsson.
You must have been unlucky or something (or maybe I was just lucky 
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Member since:
2007-03-31
will it keep working or will it also be made ike the others; joysticks failing to work, keys that stop working etc.. How good will it be able to sustain some abuse.
Only time will tell.