The Sony Ericsson W380 is a more modest Walkman that comes in the clamshell form factor.

It sports tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support and has a 1.3 megapixel camera. It surely has a display to match those specs (read lower midrange) in the face of the 1.9" 262K color TFT display with a resolution of 176 x 220 pixels and an external OLED one with a resolution of 36 x 128 pixels.

The stereo Bluetooth and the FM radio complement the bunch. Probably the most exciting thing in a run-of-the-mill handset like the W380 is the added gesture control (seen previously in the Sony Ericsson W910).

Here it allows you to manage calls, to shuffle your playlist, to control the music player or even to snooze your wake-up alarm.

The Sony Ericsson W380 will ship again from Q1 2008 along with a 512MB memory card and two interesting colors - Electric Purple and Magnetic Grey.

This post has been edited by panasonic88: Apr 8 2008, 10:53 AM


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Nokia 6170 look alike spotted.

very square, but some features prove to be interesting.

is the << >> sensitive to touch or just a display for the "gesture control"? have a guess.

the screen is a tad too small for me (176 x 220 pixels, 1.9 inches)

maybe i am used to bigger screen (240 x 320 pixels, 2 inches)

I also get used to 2" already. When I look at my sister W800i and compare with my K800i, I just can't get used to the small screen.

Anyway, the phone at front part can do play, stop and fast forward for music ?

GSMArena phone specs say "one touch music player"

i guess so

interesting colour, but its too square-ish....

Tt should be like touch sensitive right ? As the front part doesn't look like have a button there
The photo show like it's a touch screen button there.

very very stylish phone ...jz de spec not tat attractive~

possible to be touch sensitive? like U600...

anyway, the design quite plain to me..

This post has been edited by lencent: Nov 8 2007, 03:32 PM

so this phone really is out.. the 'For Blind People Touch buttons' exterior..

Nice flip design there..






by phonedaily

dissapointed with the screen only.. too small.. but nice design..

ya de design realli nice~ like it so much

me too.

im really like it.

hope it wont be expensiver later on in the market

the price is around 250 to 300 USD.

it also 1.3mp... so sad..

i think this more focus for middle end class market, so nothing hope there is will be high quality cam.

it bring walkman name somemore

well.. the 1.3mp should be sufficient la.. since its a walkman phone.. dun expect too much for a high reso camera..

yeap, im strongly agree wif your comment

interesting new phone from SE... shud be under rm1000 right? if yes, i will get this lolz

hm... it may be around that range lar.

any idea that the front display supports asian fonts?

should be just alphabets.. maybe can support chinese gua.. since its LCD display..

W380i - 900/1800/1900 Mhz
W380c - 900/1800/1900 MHz for China
W380a - 850/1800/1900 MHz for America

General Network GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900
Announced 2007, November
Status Coming Soon
Size Dimensions 92 x 49 x 16 mm
Weight 100 g
Display Type TFT, 256K colors
Size 176 x 220 pixels, 1.9 inches
- Second external OLED mono display (128 x 36 pixels)
- Easy-touch music controls
- Wallpapers, screensavers
Ringtones Type Polyphonic, MP3, AAC
Customization Download
Vibration Yes
Memory Phonebook 1000 x 20 fields, Photo call
Call records 30 received, dialed and missed calls
Card slot Memory Stick Micro (M2), 512MB card included
- 14 MB shared memory
Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
HSCSD Yes
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G No
WLAN No
Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, v2.0
Features Messaging SMS, EMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (NetFront), RSS reader
Games Yes + downloadable
Colors Electric Purple, Magnetic Grey
Camera 1.3 MP, 1280x1024 pixels, video
- Gesture Control
- Java MIDP 2.0
- Walkman player
- TrackID music recognition
- T9
- FM radio with RDS
- Image viewer
- Picture editor
- Organiser
- Built-in handsfree
- Voice memo
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion
Stand-by Up to 300 h
Talk time Up to 7 h

specification link

tis model make me feel like jap style phone to me..

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Added on December 9, 2007, 12:05 pmi like the look but the camera only 1.3mp ......but still stated cooming soon at sony site

This post has been edited by 12oY: Dec 9 2007, 12:05 PM

looks solid but kind of out dated.....ehm....looks like nokia previous model

Looks like nokia? Which one?

Kind cool looking if the flip was not opened...

looks a lil like multiband radio

yeah it do look like a portable radio

its was a prototype for a long time already..... now only release....

seconded. lol
anyway, the flip phone is popular in Japan.

i dont really like the design, better get the flat flip phone, i mean no much design function on the phone cover, an OLED is just fine. prefer the looks like z610i or any flip phone for Japan version.

This post has been edited by Miyabi: Dec 9 2007, 03:12 PM

how about the price for this model?

waiting to see how the physical thing would look like.
my old faithful W550's LCD a bit gila gila d. normal time ok, but when it went to those stanby thingy, the wallpaper become overexpose. sigh.
need to look for backup plan soon d.

LoL...like sony mp3 player skin.

Any news of this phone's release?

Any news on this model?

GSMarena has it stated that released this month & hope to be seeing it soon.. nice flip phone.

Hope it'll be cheap.
Really looking forward to this phone

should be around rm6-700

no news yet for this model eh?

No news on the release in Malaysia yet but Sony Malaysia states that it has been released on their website.

lol.. i think the price would be 7-800...

it js another low end phone..if they put that price...then sure susah mau jual...a lot better phone with better features (maybe a little bit old models) ca get at rm700-800 range...

who knows... i mean midland... not ap...

ppl who addictive to the brand dun think about the price... lol

ooo midland...ok..

addictive to the brand will not consider price???haha...

regarding phone they still consider, thats why phone specs really matters either it deserve the price or not...like x1, there are a lot potential buyers, but if SE price it more (overprice) then, the number of buyers will reduce....

its matter of time then

strongly agree wif u bro.


price must go based on phone spec itself.

ya lor.. wait and wait...

yeah keep waiting n waiting..so when ur dream phone came out, u still keep waiting for its price drop, then came out new n latest phone, xjadi beli yg lama n keep waiting the new phone to drop price...n lastly u end up not buying any phone...

This post has been edited by squall_kay: Mar 22 2008, 12:32 PM

wakakakka......

lastly, u counter attack him oso ar.

but, im quite interest wif your comment bro. =)

ow... u know ar what i think...

thumbs up

quite a little bit...hahaha...thank you2

Hmm Q3 is already coming to an end but still no news at all =(

hmm the price now is about rm730 at my place...too bad the screen is quite small la..

mid range ya... will wait for the price drop

at last the new midland set is rm799

Eh didn't realize this phone is ady out.
Gonna go check it out soon...

but still no update from sonystyle.com.my phone section regarding with this w380i model

tat day went to sony ericsson centre n saw this hp... quite lik the feeling when holding it.... too bad spec not good... if the price can get around rm500, den i will consider for my spare hp...

its out at oredy meh..? hmm.. i go see tomolo.. hehe..

ya... itz out edi... ori selling around rm700... tot can get around rm500 for ori... haha...

owh.. okie.. will check it out tomolo see la..

the phone looks so nice! anyone wanna be the first to get it & do a review here?

waiting for u to buy the phone wor..

i m planning to get it if the price is still in my range(for ap la) hehe...

Same here
Been eyeing on this one for quite sometime.
Gonna wait til the price drops to its stable price first tho

I saw Renee's price and it's RM700 for AP May i know which place sells ori for RM700?

tat day i pass by gtoracer's shop n ask for the price... he told me around rm700+-.... tis hp is new model so i dun think he can do something bad to the hp altho he is kinda 'famous' in lyn.... i aso dunno why so expensive for ap...

This post has been edited by illegaldragon87: Apr 12 2008, 01:46 PM

yup, last sat i been to lowyat saw this orig W380i Rm700++ too. but not sure wat color available.

I'll waiting a couple of months before i get it, waiting for it to price drop

I saw Tan2222959's thread... He is selling AP RM605... drop so fast?

its not drop.. its maybe the original AP set price is tat much, but some shop tend to jack up the price.. earn more ma.. see who kena cheated lo..

ic... so next few month will drop to rm500?

i dun think tat fast la.. not until another w-series is out lo.

then wait w350 out, then its time to buy w380...

haha... dragna... got k850 still need w380?? anyway, tis hp really special to me... but the bad things is, no 3g n oni 1.3mp(at least 2mp ma).... if not, i wont hesitate to get it lo...

luv the colours.. but lack in specs.. i heard it's even has no video recording feature..
it would be better if it has at least 2mp cam..

Ya... The colours is quite nice... If w380 have black, is nicer...

got black wor.. theres black/grey and purple colour i think..

got black? Got any link or pictures...? If got black will be nicer...

the 1st post got.. dunno is grey or black.. haha... sry if i colour blind ya.. haha..

1st post is grey la...

owh.. okok.. sry sry.. hm.. just checked no black colour lor..

Is ok...
no black? em...

hey
i just checked review for this phone
stated that there is no video recording capabilities..
can anyone confirm this?

nth mention bout the fido recording capabilities yet.. but should be have... they always include this feature..

ya... I also read some review says that the phone cannot record video but the phone can play video...

confirm got black color......cz i just bouht it....hahaha
still charging tho....no time to play around with it yet

http://www.mobile-review.com/review/sonyer...n-w380-en.shtml

i wonder how true is this

saw this phone @ LYP today. didn't get to feel & test it but looks really nice. would have got it as a second phone if i got the cash.

anyway, think the price will drop slowly. RM400 seems reasonable by end of this year.

Got black? Sure? how much u bought it?
Got any pictures...?

Just came back from sg wang and lowyat.
I am so gonna get this phone... Black color FTW!!

how much u got ur baby? AP? pic pic!!

mind showing the pic of the black??

Nope haven't gotten it yet
Gotta sell my caplang nokia phone first and waiting for stable price

this phone is only ok-ok laa....
but im quite dissapointed with it....the only reason i got this phone is because it was a cheap flip walkman phone....i want to listen to mp3 with it...but the level of the sound really make me frust....

its not loud at all....the highest level of the sound for me oni up to medium for other phone....but sound quality is the same with other walkman....just the level of the loudness...

do you guys know other way to make it louder?

oh and for other wondering about the price...i bought it at SE center at uptown....800+1gb M2<--original

dont have video ..oni camera mode....and the camera oni 1.3mp...so not very reomended phone if youre into taking photos