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what's up fellow tech head John revenue from TechnoBuffalo here with a review for you of the sony ericsson w580i feature phone for 18 t wireless this suckers gonna run you $49.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a two-year contract as they might begin the unboxing I don't generally do that many feature phone reviews this one actually I got by popular request let's go ahead and get started before we get to the features it's a phone and it's got to make good phone calls it actually does that quite well picked advantage of 18 T's 3G HSDPA Network and takes advantage of it actually quite well phone calls were clear people on the other end of the call of heard no white noise and it sounded nice and crystal clear on my end so kudos to Sony Ericsson for putting a nice radio in the phone let's go ahead and talk about some of the features of this thing it's got a pretty slim design as you guys can see and it's got three buttons on the front and an external display let me show you what the next year on this plate does if you go ahead and open up the phone so you close it you get the time your signal strength if you have any new messages battery and even what network you're on the H signals HSDPA these three buttons here obviously take advantage of the Walkman features into the sony ericsson phone if i go ahead and hold down play for example they are touch sensitive buttons by the way as well it'll start to play a song and actually got a really loud speaker as well move in stop that before i get into any sort of music violation but it does function as advertised you can scroll from next song to left and right hey I could do that quite easily and this thing will play mp3 WMA AAC aac+ and e AAC as long as they're not copy written or they don't have any sort of encryption on them like if you download a song from itunes for example and you get it with the DRM it's not gonna play but if it's just a sand np3 love no problem playing them so this one of the nice things about this - it's got a 3.2 megapixel camera which actually does a quite nice job take some really stellar pictures it's not your standard kind of features you'd expect it's got HSDPA like I mentioned it has assisted GPS meaning it'll use the cell network and its internal GPS antenna to get you a good location so you can take advantage of navigation software on the phone it really does a lot of thing that does a lot of things quite well so I'm picking Singh in that as you guys know and this does have a web browser although it's a little bit gimped because it is just a feature phone and I say just a feature phone if you're looking forward just as same to telephone that you can send a few texts you can answer calls and you can make calls you know this is a pretty decent option let me show you what this web browser looks like go ahead and hit this button right here and those ins got Facebook I'll talk about that in just a moment and we'll go to Medianet and it connects using the mobile network and you get that sort of option this is claimed to be an HTML capable browser my experience it wasn't quite so HTML capable but it definitely did work so you can scroll kind of using your finger and get a sort of mouse like cursor it's a very rudimentary browser but it's also very functional if you want to check some scores of the game you want to check some stocks you want to do some simple web cast this is actually gonna work out quite well for you so one of the big things about this is actually 18t is launching a Facebook app on their phone you can actually launch again using that same quick launch button right below the send key and you saw it right there under running apps actually will run jar applications so we'll go ahead and open up Facebook and you'll see you get a simple login screen you get a relatively nice Facebook application I'm gonna show you guys here cuz they're gonna have to go through my whole profile with you for taking my word for it the Facebook application does work quite well the buttons on the phone are a little bit different they kind of got these circles which I thought I wasn't gonna lie but you actually get used to the circles around them actually make sure you're not pressing the wrong one there's a pretty decent amount of space between them I found the keys were actually relatively easy to type in texting was fine it was your standard texting experience using t9 or multi-tap on a really a set 9 key keyboard but it worked and it does kind of wait expected to do so if I have to rank this phone on a 1 to 5 I'd give it a really solid 4 it works well it works as advertised I would have had a few more smart phone esque features like a better calendaring system and possibly some more alerting options but it does work very well and if you're looking for just a feature phone that will make phone calls this is quite a decent way to go so the last thing I want to mention guys is something called AT&T share and I want to give you full disclosure this is something that AT&T when they send me to this device to review they actually asked me to mention so to be nice I'm going to mention it to you guys as well and actually this kind of quite neat it's AT&T shares Facebook application essentially what that does is it lets you kind of use AT&T Facebook application I just showed you and it kind of lets you earn points we can be happy to become a fan of AT&T freedom of choice on Facebook if you haven't already I'll put a link to it in the sidebar essentially you kind of create document you share your unique 18 t-mobile phone experience for others and you can make points and you earn these points and you can use them for tickets to concerts and all kinds of other stuff it actually is a pretty neat program wanted to let you guys know about it again full disclosure or something that AT&T asked me to mention so guys that was it just a relatively short review here hope you enjoyed for exclusive content be sure to check me out on Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers so more about TechnoBuffalo check out TechnoBuffalo calm or twitter.com slash TechnoBuffalo see you guys in the next video buh-bye