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Cellphone: Sony Ericsson W380a hits Canada

Sony Ericsson W380a is a great phone for music lovers. Canadian residents would absolutely be thrilled to know that the W380a is now available in Fido and Rogers’ retail stores and websites. It comes in a compact clamshell design with easy to use controls when using the phone’s Walkman features. You can get a prepaid Sony Ericsson W380a handset at Fido for $300 Canadian dollars or from Rogers at $60 with a 3-year contract and $160 with a 2-year contract.

The Sony Ericsson W380a is a Walkman Phone and has all the features that you need in a basic phone. It comes in a flip phone design and weighs only 3.5 oz. It’s very compact and you can bring it with you whenever you need some music for a company. You can get it in either color gray or purple. Although not noticeable, it comes with an external display screen that shows battery life, time, signal status and caller ID. It can also display the current music title playing on your Walkman.

You can store a good number of music with your W380a. It comes with a memory card slot, but it is a real challenge to find it. You need to remove your phone’s battery to uncover the slot. At the back of your phone, you can also find a slider that includes external controls. To modify the volume of your music or voice calls, you can find a volume rocker on the right side of your phone exterior.

A 1.8 inch 262k color display is good enough for navigating through your phone can it can also display good graphics. You can store up to a thousand entries on your phone book and assign a polyphonic ringtone for each one. The W380a also comes with voice memo recorder, SMS and multimedia messaging, calculator, timer, and a stopwatch.

Connectivity would not be an issue with the phone’s Bluetooth integration and PC syncing capabilities. You can use its speakerphone features and vibrate mode. You may use your phone as a USB mass storage and encode a code memo whenever you need to store sensitive data.

Sony Ericsson W380a’s Walkman features make it marketable. It is similar to most Walkman units minus the album art option and visualization. The Walkman features of this phone are very easy to use. You can modify sound quality with its built in equalizer. This W380 can also double up as a camera and an FM radio.