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what's up guys and girls Jon render a TechnoBuffalo here with an unboxing for you of the sony ericsson w580i i don't do many feature phone unboxings generally it's smartphones this one's actually by popular request it's a new phone available for 18 t wireless it's run you $49.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a two-year contract and what's unique about this phone is its one-button access integration with Facebook so I'll show you that during the review but let's just go ahead and get to the unboxing you've got a picture of the phone on the front letting you know that it's got music GPS could take video email it's got a camera telling you the same bit of info on the side bottom is just the same some legal stuff and some skew so let's see what we got inside of that so here we've got the device itself I'll wrap the plastic this is a nice presentation actually with the phone just sitting right on top put it off to the side it does feel nice and thin though let's see what else we get in the box pretty sparse here we get a battery of course of what size 1200 milliamp hours so it's not a giant battery but it's not a feature phone it's not a smartphone so it should last pretty long in case you're wondering it's the BST 39 that sony ericsson puts out we get a charger with some bizarre proprietary thing going on there but it's a sony phone and of course they love proprietary formats keep going down the box you've got this another layer to lift up and you've got all of your user documentation i assume there's a CD in there some sort QuickStart guide an actual user's guide you don't see that very often in English and Spanish looks like you have to print that out and some other stuff down below then most people probably won't look at so let's go ahead and take a look at the phone took it out of the plastic it is actually nice and thin zooming here we'll do a real quick size comparison so here is the sony ericsson w580i and actually thinner as well here it is next to the just-released Nokia surge as well let's stack them on top and that's all fine and good but what does this look like in sides go ahead and open it up and it's got a very interesting keypad layout no full QWERTY keyboard just a standard number pad and they're all sort of inlaid but the main attraction is actually that button right there and that's why a lot of you were emailing and asking about it so there's one touch integration with Facebook you can see you're right there Facebook at your fingertips so actually very curiously how this works and how Facebook actually looks on such a small screen but it's supposed to be pretty neat you can check out all your friends on Facebook you can follow 18t on Facebook you can check out 18t I think I've got a freedom of choice but I actually am a fan of AT&T on Facebook potentially ask a lot of questions and they're pretty responsive there too so if you've got concerns or comments you can go in and generally getting it back to you so let's see what else we got take a look at the phone and run through it so it's obviously a music player you've got music controls on the front you've got your play and stop and your track back or track forward and there does appear to be an external LED on the front and there is a camera as well on the right side of the device we've got a volume rocker it looks like a lock key what's similar what you'd see on an iPod shuffle or an iPod does look like it's got except Sony's proprietary memory card format and there's that bizarre charging port let's go ahead and take a look at the specs and see what this thing can do or can't do for that matter alright so this guy has a 3.2 megapixel camera a full HTML capable browser obviously he's got a music player it can support mp3 WMA AAC aac+ and e aac+ can handle subscription services it can do all your messaging text messaging even MMS it's got singular video which is actually 18 key video but it's still called CV and it's got the to listen to music feature obviously on it as well so let's go ahead and power this thing on and see what it looks like alright so we're gonna go ahead and pop the battery so your SIM card goes right there and your memory stick would go right in there put it in the back it's just me a plastic but it does have a sturdy feel to it although it's a little bit of a pain to get off it's not too bad got a kind of snap in place all around it's going to power this thing on let's peel off the screen protector that's always kind of satisfying to do you got the big whooshing sound that was nice there we go get the big AT&T logo insert sim card we're going to pass by that I think the battery is almost dead as well so I would go ahead and use this for a little while and per my usual and give you my review and update on it I'm actually very curious how this Facebook integration is going to work if it's a gimmick or if it's actually functional for exclusive contents be sure to follow me on Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers and to learn more about TechnoBuffalo check out twitter.com slash TechnoBuffalo I'll see you guys in the next video buh-bye