Sony Ericsson Walkman W518a Unlocked GSM Phone with 3.2MP Camera, GPS and Bluetooth - Black

The phone is great. I got this to replace the one I had for the past 3 years, because I thought it was broken. Unfortunately, the one I purchased was refurbished, not new as advertised. It died after about a month. Thankfully Amazon took it back and gave me a refund. So I took put my SIM card back in my original phone and haven't had a problem since. So I highly recommend this phone. After 4 years of rough use, it's still working wonderfully. Just email the seller before buying to make sure that it is actually new first.

I have tried to purchase a used Sony Ericsson W518a Cell Phone for about since January this year. The reason the orignal phone gave me was problem with the charger,it stop working. Thought it was battery, bought new one ,still didn't work, so tried new charger .it did not make the phone work either. So, tried to purchase another. Got one on ebay great price, but once I got it the lite didn't work. it was full charged everything except.when you open the flip phone lite flash..then out lite...so, thanks I didn't stop I just wanted my Sony Ericsson phone back.. Then I tried Amazon.com I received great price..and working. excellent cell phone with no problem. Thank You to the seller.

Purchased the Sony Ericsson W518a from BytesOfDeals to use on a trip to Vietnam and was going to give it to a friend over there when i left. But i couldn't charge the phone, displayed an error when trying to charge the battery. So i was without a phone for 98% of my visit. I found someone with a universal battery charger so i was able to charge it right at the end of my trip. The phone work fine while i had a charge so I can't fault the phone, rather Amazon who couldn't do anything to replace the phone charger because i was gone for a month. All they could do was offer a discount on a replacement charger. I did try to charge the phone when I got back to the US but it still wouldn't but this time it said the battery was not a Sony Ericsson battery which it was clearly stated on the battery when i looked at it. So i won't buy a phone from Amazon or BytesOfDeals again.

it fails a lot and shuts down by itself a lot and and is not reliable. Do not recommend it

I bought the red version for a relative and it worked fine with O2 Sim card, previous simple flip phone finally went bad considering that it was several years old. Decided to get the grey version for myself as a backup phone liking its simplicity. 1st issue like the first phone the random music playing, simply leave the lock slider on. Also decided to erase any MP3 on my relatives phone lol, she did not need that. 2nd issue - inactive Sim, appeared random but would constantly go inactive. Searched the sony forum which I found similar issues claiming a bad Sim. Since I had the red version to test I was able to swap Sims and worked fine on red, but both Sims would not work on grey model. An article on Sony site mentions the Sim cable may come loose and simply re-seating it would fix it. [...] getting the tools on amazon 6$ and followed it.15min to disassemble and back if you have the tools. The connector is next to the Sim slot under a square foam, lift up and place back down. Now it works fine. No missing Sim message. For now I am going to wait to see if the other issues listed here occur before changing my 3 rating. Freezing calls, battery life etc. So far so good. Bluetooth works with my wireless headset, as my alternative MP3 player to my main android phone. The size makes it easy to stash anywhere on myself or bag.

I owned another Walkman w518a for over three years until I broke it I ordered the very same one. Durable and reliable I use it every single day and has never failed me yet. Congrats to Sony Ericsson for a great product.

Nice quality, thanks! It works well and takes nice pictures. It was worth the price, which was very reasonable! Thanks

This is a reasonably priced no frills basic cell phone. It works well for voice calls, photos, and text messaging. When used as a speaker phone it's okay. The phone's not much use for the internet, but the button for accessing the internet is so prominent that at first you may use it inadvertently, triggering unwanted data usage charges. A batterty charge can last several days. We got three of these phones (one black, two red) initially. They all performed well and lasted well beyond the life of the ATT contract. We went month to month thereafter since ATT had increased the price we'd have to pay under a new contract. Eventually one of the red phones broke due to hard treatment. We replaced it with another of the black phones for under $60 on Amazon. If we'd gone under contract again using the contract most similar to the terms we now have to get three new phones, the minimum cost to us would have been $240 additional over two years. (It'd also be a good purchase if you needed an inexpensive phone to bridge the gap from the time you lose a phone to the expiration of your contract when you can "reup" and get a glitzier phone as part of your contract.) A caution: The first replacement phone (red) we got through Amazon was inferior to the ones we had initially (poor sound; no pictures would come through on texts); no internet connection; when we worked unsuccessfully with ATT to correct these problems, ATT gave up and decided to provide warranty coverage instead. Then we (and the ATT rep) learned the warranty had expired. Though the phone had been advertised as new, it in fact was used, first activated on the ATT network almost two years earlier. We're guessing someone was dissatisfied with it and returned it under warranty (it still looked great) with its original packaging, and thereafter someone palmed it off as new. We returned it to Amazon and got another (black).