Mobile Phone Reviews

“Gesture Control.” We imagine this is similar to the “Shake Control” found on the Sony Ericsson W580i we reviewed recently. The company says that Gesture Control will be used to perform such functions as answering or muting a phone call, or for snoozing the alarm clock on the phone. On the W580i, Shake Control was used to skip a song on the Walkman player, so presumably this will work for the W380a as well.The W380a is a tri-band GSM phone with EDGE networking. A clamshell phone, the device features a slick purple shell with a translucent external display that gives you control over the Walkman player without having to open the phone. For music fans, the phone works with A2DP for stereo Bluetooth headsets and speaker systems, and comes bundled with a 512MB Memory Stick Micro (M2) card, which is small, but respectable. For shutterbugs, a 1.3-megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom has also been incorporated.

Features
The W380a has a 1,000-contact phone book with room in each entry for five phone numbers, both an e-mail and a Web address, a job title, a company name and work address, a home address, a birthday, and notes (the SIM card holds an additional 250 names). You can save contacts to groups and pair them with a photo and any of 14 polyphonic ringtones for caller ID. Other essentials include a vibrate mode, a voice memo recorder, text and multimedia messaging, an alarm clock, a calendar, a task list, a notepad, a timer, a stopwatch, and a calculator. More demanding users will find Bluetooth, PC syncing, a speakerphone (usable after you make a call), USB mass storage, and a code memo for storing sensitive information.

Sony Ericsson W380a - purple Reviews From  einnews
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The good: The Sony Ericsson W380a offers a compact design with unique external music controls. It also has a respectable feature set, including Bluetooth and a music player.

The bad: The Sony Ericsson W380a’s volume level was a bit soft. Also, it lacks video recording and its internal memory is too small.

The bottom line: The Sony Ericsson W380a is a respectable, midrange Walkman phone that offers some nifty design touches. But there are better Walkman options out there.