The Sony Ericsson W580i is the latest music phone in the Sony Ericsson W-series lineage. The device is a slider phone. It is compact and includes a large color screen. The screen is viewable in both the slider open and slider closed position. This smartphone is a soft touch phone that weighs only 94 grams. This Walkman music phone is compact in size measuring 99 x 47 x 14mm. The phone offers an incisive visual experience. It comes with a 262,000 color TFT screen with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. The technologically rich and advanced camera is one of the best features of this phone. The phone has a 2 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom. With such a camera, storing life’s vivid moments is just a click away. The Sony Ericsson W580i mobile phone is even more exciting. The device has benefits like video streaming, video player and image blogging in video recording.

The Sony Ericsson W580i music player is enriched with an FM radio with RDS. The phone has some special features for music lovers like TrackID, PlayNow and Bluetooth Stereo (A2DP). Embedded Java games and downloadable games are also part of this high-tech device.

The phone supports a quad band technology. Multiple connectivity options are present in the phone like EDGE, USB, Bluetooth, fast port, GPRS, modem, and PC sync. Access NetFront web browser and RSS feeds make browsing the Internet on your mobile phone a truly enjoyable experience. The phone has 12 MB of internal memory and supports a Memory Stick Micro M2 for memory expansion. Now there is no shortage of space to store large media files.

A mobile email service is a feature of this phone that allows you to receive, send, and store email on your phone. The fully charged battery lasts for 9 hours of talk time and up to 370 hours of standby time. All these features decorate the beautiful and tempting gray Sony Ericsson W580i mobile phone.

The Sony Ericsson W850i is a 3G-enabled tri-band GSM mobile phone with a wide range of entertainment features. The W850i is also a Walkman series phone that is slightly heavier than the Sony Ericsson W580i. Its dimensions are 98x47x21mm and it weighs 116 grams.

The phone has a sharp 256,000 color TFT screen. It displays a resolution of 240×320 pixels. The phone can store up to 1000 contacts in its phonebook. It has 16 MB of shared memory, higher than that of the Sony Ericsson W580i. This device also uses a Memory Stick Duo Pro as external memory. The phone’s camera is 2 megapixels. Take images with a resolution of 1600×1200 pixels. GPRS, 3G, Bluetooth, Infrared and USB are present to transfer media files.

The Sony W850i has software called Walkman 2.0. This is an excellent medium for listening to your favorite music. This is one of the main features of this phone. An FM radio with RDS is part of this device. The phone is fitted with a 950mAH Li-Po battery, providing a talk time of 7 hours and a standby time of 350 hours.

So you can see that both the W580i and W850i are more or less equally stylish mobile phones. If we put aside one or two specifications and certain features, both devices are equally entertaining.