Our folks at gsmarena just recently released their Sony Ericsson Vivaz review, and I’m here to bring you the summarized review of the Sony Ericsson Vivaz. First of all, before we enter the review part, let’s take a brief look on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz specs and features:
Here are the Sony Ericsson Vivaz specs and features:
- 3.2″ 16M-color resistive touchscreen of 640 x 360 pixel resolution
- 8 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, face and smile detection, geotagging and touch focus
- HD 720p video recording @ 24fps with continuous auto focus
- Symbian OS 9.4 S60 5th, topped with a custom-brewed homescreen and media menu
- 720 MHz CPU, PowerVR SGX dedicated graphics accelerator
- Quad-band GSM support
- 3G with HSDPA 10.2Mbps and HSUPA 2Mbps support
- Wi-Fi and GPS with A-GPS
- microSD card slot (up to 16GB, 8GB card in the box)
- Built-in accelerometer
- Turn-to-mute
- TV out
- Stereo FM Radio
- microUSB and stereo Bluetooth v2.0
- Web browser has full Flash support
- Preinstalled Wisepilot navigation software
- Office document viewer
- Decent audio quality
Sony Ericsson Vivaz Design review
Sony Ericsson Vivaz has a standard design for a touchscreen phone. It has a large touchscreen display with nHD resolution (360 x 640 pixels) and three buttons bellow. Compared to the Sony ericsson Satio, the Sony Ericsson Vivaz is pretty similar but the top and bottom part is more curved. The material used for the Vivaz’s case is mostly plastics, but surprisingly it is very good and solid. All in all, it’s a well-built handset using quality plastics. Compact and lightweight, the Vivaz is a very friendly device, and beautifully styled too.
Sony Ericsson Vivaz Display review
As we’ve mentioned before, the 3.2″ resistive touchscreen has 640 x 360 pixel resolution and 16 Million colors. It has nice picture quality with excellent contrast for a TFT unit. Resistive displays generally need more pressure to get a click registered. As we found out though, the Vivaz screen response is excellent. The resistive technology is certainly not a drawback here. Unfortunately, the sunlight legibility is poor – the Vivaz does slightly better than the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, which has a screen with the same size, resolution and touch technology.
Sony Ericsson Vivaz User Interface (UI) Review
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Sony ericsson Vivaz loud speaker and audio review
Our folks at gsmarena have conducted a loudspeaker test for the Vivaz. And the result is not so good. Compared to other phone such as Acer NeoTouch, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, SE Satio, and HTC Touch HD, the sony ericsson vivaz loudspeaker fall behind.
The Sony Ericsson Vivaz isn’t the loudest of them handset as far as headphones volume is concerned. However when subjected to our traditional audio quality test it showed a decent overall performance with even a few excellent marks here and there. The noise level, dynamic range and stereo crosstalk are particularly impressive, while the distortion levels are both pretty decent.
The cut-off extreme bass frequencies are the only slight shortfall of the Vivaz frequency response. However it is excellent for the rest of the audible range so no biggie.
Sony Ericsson Vivaz Camera and Image Review
The Sony Ericsson Vivaz packs an 8-megapixel camera and is capable of taking photos of up to 3264 x 2448 pixels. It also sports a LED flash, but its serves video better than the still images. The interface is quite comfortable. In the options you’ll find several features such as self-timer, white balance, flash on/off, effects, image stabilizer and picture size.
Regarding the image quality, Sony Ericsson Vivaz produces splendid photos. The colors are vibrant and rich (too bad we don’t have the weather to prove it), the amount of resolved detail is very good and the noise levels are low. Overall the image quality is very impressive!
Sony Ericsson Vivaz main disadvantages:
- No camera lens protection
- No auto mode for the flash/video light
- LED flash not powerful enough
- The S60 5th edition UI isn’t to the best in class standards
- No proximity sensor sensor to lock the screen during a call
- No DivX or XviD support out-of-the-box
- No smart or voice dialing
- No office document editing (without a paid upgrade)
- No stereo speakers
- No digital compass (magnetometer)
- Videocalling uses only the main camera (no secondary one)
Ok, I think that’s about it. Now what do you think about the Sony EricssonVivaz Review? Don’t forget to read the comparison between Sony Ericsson Vivaz vs Sony Ericsson Satio vs Samsung Omnia HD vs Samsung Jet
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