The BenQ M580 mobile phone is a Tri band GSM phone which was announced earlier this year and is now available for a price of $300. The phone weighs close to 95 grams and measures approximately 88 x 44 x 22 mm. The BenQ M580 mobile phone houses a 65k colors CSTN screen with a 128 x 160 pixel display resolution. The screen measures about 29 x 35 mm. The external screen on the other hand is just a mono display.

The BenQ M580 mobile phone does not come with a memory card slot, and contains just 2mb of shared internal memory. The phone comes with GPRS support but unfortunately no EDGE or other high speed networks. The BenQ M580 mobile phone also has a good WAP / xHTML browser so you can browse the internet with the GPRS. The BenQ M580 mobile phone is available in Silver, Black and white colors. It also has a VGA resolution camera which can take still photos at 640 x 480 pixels. The BenQ M580 mobile phone is capable of adding 40 channel polyphonic ringtones.

The BenQ M580 mobile phone has a battery life of 5 and half hours and about 160 + hours of stand by duration.