Sony Ericsson W580i Pink Sony W580i joins the range Walkman

Pink mobile phones were introduced to the market about three years ago when the pioneering manufacturer Motorola has launched its pink version of Motorola RAZR V3 phone just before Christmas, then other producers followed suit and this has led to a flood of new pink phones.

The latest pink mobile phone is the Sony Ericsson W580i, the fourth color variant in the range of models in the wake of the original Urban Grey, Style White, Boulevard Black, the official name for the new color scheme is Metro Pink.

Usually this time of year that retailers have a good idea of ​​what is going to be on offer throughout the festive period with manufacturers and dealers are slowly giving press releases on new products and items flying around on the forums mobile. This year is undoubtedly the year of different colored phones, never before have so many color combinations available.

The new Sony W580i Pink Edition will fit in a niche of its own, is just another pink phone with software that is music to the Samsung F210 pink, but the W580i is the Walkman range of Sony Ericsson which means it offers the latest Walkman music software.

The music software allows the user to easily upload music files OT New albums from a PC to the phone, entire CDs can be copied directly into the phone's memory with a clever piece of software called Disc2Phone. Users can also download new music tracks directly from mobile Internet and then organize them into playlists according to the style, genre or time, the W580i has 2GB of memory with Memory Stick Duo, which can contain up to 1600 songs which compares favorably Many MP3 players with stand alone.

There is also an additional feature not found on the F210, TrackID is a service that recognizes the songs, if a user wanted to know more about a piece of music you were listening to, and around, they can simply record a few seconds sound and the phone will send a recognition database which in turn return a telephone message to the artist's name and the track, this can be very useful if in a night club, instead of asking the DJ to break through that track that the user can find out almost instantly.

Staying with the theme music, there's also an FM radio to keep updated with the latest versions of music, local news, sports and traffic reports and weather, which also has RDS which displays information sent from the station, as the 'artist name and track playing.

The Sony W580 features a 2.0 megapixel camera with support for video recording and playback, digital zoom for image capture and a near flash for low light conditions, it is a camera like the F210.

One feature that the W580i has still above the F210 is a suite of applications for fitness and sport including a pedometer, especially useful if you prefer listening to music while jogging, and you want to track your progress.

The Sony Ericsson W580i Pink Edition offers a more feminine quality to the expanding range of Walkman phones, which until now have been very masculine look, women also like mobile users to enjoy their music, so it makes for a welcome addition to the range .......