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Friday, June 11, 2010

Sony Ericsson Vivaz - Multimedia Expectations


The first thing you’ll notice about Sony Ericsson Vivaz, and most definitely appreciate is that it is sleek, elegant phone with a curved design across the whole phone. Sony Ericsson calls it ‘human curvature’ and we found it most pleasing.

The Sony Ericsson Vivaz is the Japanese-Swedish tech team’s latest handset running on the Symbian S60 v5 platform, replete with snazzy 8.1 megapixel camera and HD video recording, supporting autofocus, with touch focus, face and smile detection and geotagging.. Essentially a successor to the 12MP-packing Sony Ericsson Satio, it’s been billed as the latest in a long line of cool camera-phones from the mobile manufacturer. The main focus of the Vivaz is easy sharing of user generated content, high quality video and images, which can be shared via messaging and the web with family, friends, and anyone else. The open platform also allows users to personalize their entertainment experience by downloading great applications through PlayNow™ and the Symbian Developer Community.

At a relatively small 52x12.5x107mm and weighing lightweight 97g, this device is umber pocketable, yet doesn’t skimp when it comes to the display, serving up a 3.2inch, 360x640 pixels TFT touchscreen.  The Vivaz is shorter, narrower, slightly slimmer which weighs only ninety seven grams & its overall measurements are 10.7cm tall by 5.2cm wide by 1.25cm deep. This handset is easy to hold, carry & use, due to its neat size & overall shape of the casing, making it much easier on a trouser or jacket pocket.

We mentioned media as another plus point - this is mostly down to Sony Ericsson adding in a 3.5mm headphone jack into the mix. It's the second phone the brand has done this with (the first being the W995) and is a real plus point, seeing as it was missing on the Satio.

This gorgeous looking Smartphone comes in a wide selection of colours which include a cosmic black, galaxy blue, venus ruby & a moon silver version. The touch screen has a screen resolution of three hundred & sixty pixels by six hundred & forty pixels & the user can view up to sixteen million colours on this clear touch screen. There are three keys located just below the touch screen which are neatly built in to the casing to enhance both the overall design & usability, as the user can access their call keys with ease.

The device is a quad band GSM phone for complete roaming coverage in all GSM countries and for data the Vivaz utilises HSPA, with uploads at up to 2Mbps and downloads at up to 10.2Mbps supported on the phone. Class 10 GPRS and EDGE support backs this up when outside 3G coverage, and the handset also includes WiFi 802.11 b/g with support for DLNA which should mean integrating your device into an already existing WLAN should be a simple process. For local connectivity the Vivaz supports Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, and there is, almost uniquely for a Sony Ericsson device, a MicroUSB port for connecting to a PC.

Messaging was also pretty good - the screen is smaller than other phones out there, and the resistive screen can be hard to text on, but overall using the phone in landscape mode made for some pretty swift messaging - and push Exchange email from RoadSync is pretty handy as well.

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