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Clock

By default the home screen clock is the same size as all the other text, however you can set it to be positively huge. When the phone is in standby mode, with the screen off, a quick press of either volume key will display the time, however the backlight is dimmed, so this only works indoors or at night.

Bluetooth

Connecting to computers or headsets is relatively straight forward as long as you use the My Devices menu; it seems the handsfree menu is only for connecting the W580 to cars. Once done the phone maintains a good connection with the headset or headphones. But as with all phones and Bluetooth headphones, it is prone to cutting out when you're listening to music on the move.

You can just as easily connect to a computer to transfer files or use the phone as a modem.

Java

The W580 is an impressive Java performer. A MIDP 1 score of 6989 isn't the highest of any phone we've ever tested, but it is very impressive. However a MIDP 2 score of 1002 is among the best we've seen, especially for a feature phone.

Fitness

Amongst the usual array of extra applications like a calculator, alarm and datebook is an entire main menu icon devoted to fitness.

On the home screen is a tiny icon of two foot prints and a number next to it. The W850 keeps track of how many steps you take per day using a built in accelerometer. While I couldn't get shake control to work in the Walkman application, this seemed to work fine. There's also modes in the fitness menu for tracking your mileage and speed while running. You can fine tune the accuracy and see graphs of your daily progress.

Fitness  

fitness menu

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