Sony Ericsson Walkman W580i Piece 'O Junk!

I purchased this phone for my 17 year old daughter. She wanted the orange and black phone. I found out later the white one came with speakers and a memory card.... and this is where I start getting mad.

I'm not even going to list the phone's features for you, because I really really recommend you DO NOT BUY this phone.

We paid $49 for the phone because we renewed our contract with AT & T or Cingular or whatever company they were at that time for an additional two years.

What they didn't tell me at the time is that most of the cool features, music, pictures and so forth required a memory stick if you want to be able to store anything (of course you do). So back to the AT & T (or Cingular) store I go to purchase the memory stick but they didn't carry it. I went to Best Buy and they Do carry the memory stick required which is the size of the fingernail on your pinky finger and costs $69!!!

The white phone (as i mentioned earlier) came with little speakers, but you cannot purchase the little speakers for the black phone, they are only for the white phone. At this point I am nearly rendered speechless by the whole annoying sequence of events that have required me to run around town spending lots of money.

Sooo.... I'm finally over it, my teenager is enjoying her new phone and I move on. 2 weeks later, the phone isn't working but it's still under warranty and they send a new phone and we return the old phone in a handy dandy package they sent us. Not too difficult or annoying and the phone is replaced.

3 months later, phone not working again. When the buttons are pushed nothing happens. There are problems with the screen going out for long periods of time so you can't see anything on it even though the phone still works. We return the phone again, and they send us a new one.

Couple months later phone isn't working again. All in all we've had a total of 4 phones shipped to us in under a year.

My sister in law and brother in law also have these phones which they affectionately refer to as POS. I don't want to have to spell it out, but suffice it to say they are not happy with the quality of these phones either.

Teenager had a birthday last week, bought her an iPhone.