At first glance, the Sony Ericsson W380 looks a bit dull. It's a "Walkman" branded GSM clamshell phone with a 1.3 megapixel camera and a 176x220 pixel display. The relatively low model number (i.e. 380) indicates that this is a pretty low-end phone.

And yet, the Sony Ericsson W380 has a few surprising features that actually make it a pretty cool phone. Firstly, it's a Walkman phone, so you know that it's going to have good multimedia capabilities.. but there's more. Perhaps the cleverest thing in the W380 is a motion sensor which allows you to wave your hand over the phone in order to snooze an alarm or to silence an incoming call. This is perhaps a silly thing, but you have to admit that it's a pretty cool feature. The exterior media controls are quite funky too, and the W380 has a fashionably discrete external display as well. Talktime is a useful 7 hours.