The new Sony Ericsson smartphones, Xperia X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro have finally announced officially and right now people are expecting the official prices’ for these two phones. Lately, the updated news stated that these two smartphones’ prices will come together with their first appearance on European storefronts. The price will be different for each phone depends on the categories it belongs to, whether the unlocked category or the locked one.
Certainly, the different prices should be reasonable learning the slightest difference of specifications between Xperia X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro. The features are commonly the same that both smartphones are equipped with Android-based operating system, a 600 MHz processor, ‘Rachael’ User Interface, and a 5 MP camera. The only difference appears between these two models is the presence of physical keyboard. The X10 Mini Pro comes with a slide-out keyboard for more convenient typing. Continue reading ‘Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini and XPERIA X10 Mini Pro Price revealed for Europe Countries’ »
Sony Ericsson Vivaz, the latest phone from Sony Ericsson has gained a lot of attention these days. Now we get another review of this smartphone by all about symbian, the first impression and video.
According to them, the Vivaz’s photo doesnt like a smrtphone as it is even smaller than the average smartphone today. With the same screen size, a 3.2 inch screen, it is smaller than Nokia 5530.
There is what the company calls as ‘human curvature’ on Vivaz. It means the smartphone has been designed to be comfortable in hand. They say that Sony Ericsson Vivaz as the most comfortable phone in the world today.
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
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
Checkout the video below
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)
Our friend Eldar from Mobile-review has done it again! Just recently he revealed his personal preview and first impression on the Sony Ericsson Kurara U5, the phone we’ve talked about (saying that it might be better than the Sony Ericsson Satio) several days ago. The Kurara U5 development was started at the same time with Satio, and it seems that the Kurara U5 will be rolled out in February 2010. Some say that the SE Kurara U5along with the SE XPERIA X10 will be the Sony Ericsson’s flagship device in 2010.
According to Eldar’s Sony Ericsson Kurara U5 preview, the SE Kurara U5 has nothing new to offer. Compared to the Samsung i8910 OmniaHD, the Kurara has a similar display (3.5 inch touchscreen) minus the AMOLED technology. Other features are 3.5mm headset jack, MicroSD card slot, and Twitter and Facebook apps.
About the Sony Ericsson Kurara U5’s camera, it packs 8.1MP camera with autofocus, but this is what Eldar think about it: “nothing to write home about, and except for its 720p resolution for video, it’s little to no different from your average cheap 8 MP module.”
However, the phone does have the Cortex A8 processor, which makes the Symbian UI is faster compared to the OmniaHD…. And this combined with the perfect pricing (I hope ) could just make this Sony Ericsson Kurara U5 a popular one next year…
So what do you think about the SE Kurara U5 preview and first impression? Do you agree? Some more Eldar’s deeper thoughts can be found from the link provided below…
We all were excited to hear this rumor. According to the buzz over at the internet, it seems that Sony Ericsson is planning to release a brand new and hot phone codenamed Sony Ericsson Kurara. This Kurara is one heck of a phone, with lots of leading tech stuffs included inside.
Speaking of the SE Kurara specs and features, buzzes over at the internet are saying that the it will pack the 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, with ARM Cortex A8 CPU that has graphical branches of the likes of PowerVR GPU.In addition, the SE kurara packs 256 MB of RAM and video recording at HD 720p.
Previously, many people thought that the Sony Ericsson Kurara is the cheaper version of the Sony Ericsson Satio; but with this latest rumor, the Sony Ericsson Kurara might be better than the Satio. The Kurara release date is said to be on February next year. The Price? around $750.
Let’s hope that this rumor is real Stay tuned for the updated news on this babe…
Ok so the hottest device of Sony Ericsson to date, the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 is officially announced along with X2 official specs and features… Recently we found a video preview of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2. And since we love our readers, we present you two video preview of the XPERIA X2 The first video came from Aaron Duke and the second one from Sumit Maholtra…
Anyway, you can find the videos after the jump Enjoy folks….
Finally the big announcement day has come. Just yesterday Sony Ericsson has officially announced the long-awaited Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2… The XPERIA X2 is the successor of X1, which also took a lot of attention, but failed to impress the market due to the delays…. Anyway, the XPERIA X2 specs and features offer nicer things compared to the X1. One of them is Windows Mobile 6.5; which makes the X2 will be stuffed with office things such as Microsoft Office Mobile, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and Internet Explorer Mobile. It also offer you the new SlideView feature, allowing the XPERIA X2 users to gain a “quick access to frequently used phone activities”. Panels is still the attraction in this series of XPERIA. There are 14 preloaded panels and you can download other 16 panels from the web. Some panels are Skype, Google, Mytopia, CNN, Windows Live, games and so on.
According to our source, the new XPERIA X2 which comes with 2 options of colors (Elegant Black and Modern Silver) will be sold on early Q4. However, there is still no information on the Price of the XPERIA X2… Anyway, here are the XPERIA X2 specs and features:
So let me tell you about the 2 latest rumor on Sony Ericsson that draws me and phone geeks’ attention: The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 and Sony Ericsson XPERIA X3. Well, from the specs and features of the 2 SE phones we got, the XPERIA X3 seems to be more attractive; but now it is time for the X2 to show up
What you are about to see is a video demo of Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 running on Windows Mobile (WinMo) 6.5 . There will be many actions and you can also see panels made for the X2. It is still disturbed with bugs a bit but hopefully Sony Ericsson will improve the OS soon. Enjoy the video after the break and share your opinion under Continue reading ‘Video: Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 with Windows Mobile 6.5’ »
This time Sony Ericsson XPERIA Rachael; or also known as the XPERIA X3 got a video preview. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X3/Rachael’s video focuses on the preview of the X3’s User Interface (UI)
You might have known that the XPERIA X3 will use the latest Android version and what makes me excited is that it might be totally customized! That is very cool….
Aside of the Android OS, the XPERIA X3 also comes with 1 Ghz CPU and 8MP camera with many features. Well, for the complete list of the XPERIA X3 specs and features, just click on the link, will you? Anyway, the video after the break
Meanwhile, enjoy the video and tell me what do you think about it
Hohoho…. it is time for another big news… Did you read my post about the powerful Sony Ericsson Rachael? It is the first Android phone from Sony Ericsson and it packs a great specs, including 1 Ghz of CPU; 8 Mpx camera and the latest Android OS version, the Android 1.5…
This time the Rachael got an official name of XPERIA X3; acccording to an online store named Expansys. They also released the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X3/Rachael specs and features, which includes:
Dual-band 3G (900/2100 MHz) with HSDPA 10Mbps and HSUPA 2Mbps
4 inches touchscreen display with 800 x 400 pixels
8MP camera with autofocus, image stabilization, face detection, smile shutter, LED flash and VGA video recording.
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11g
A-GPS
Bluetooth 2.1
3.5mm audio jack
E-mail (POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, MS Exchange)
MiniUSB
MicroSDHC card support
Sony Ericsson Rachael / Xperia X3 will have a customized UI on top of Android (probably Android OS 1.5). We might also see the XPERIA X2 and X3 be announced together soon. So cross your fingers and let’s hope for the best
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