The Sony Ericsson Vivaz

Background Information & Look n’ Feel

The Sony Ericsson  Vivaz is Sony Ericsson’s first phone of the year and it tries desperately to get away from the flat monolith designs of 2009. Sony Ericsson say they have used their new design philosophy “human curvature” on this phone. What they probably mean is that they have used ergonomics in the design of this device. The phone will be available in “Moon Silver”, “Cosmic Black”, “Galaxy Blue” and “Venus Ruby” colour combinations.

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Hardware – Display, Keyboard, Battery, Communications, Memory, Connectors

The Sony Ericsson Vivaz mobile phone comes with an impressive 3.2”, 360 x 640 pixel TFT touchscreen. The display also comes with an accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate. The Vivaz has a built-in, 8 MP 3264×2448 pixels camera which has autofocus, LED flash, touch focus, geo-tagging, face and smile detection.  The camera is capable of video capture of up to at least 1280×720 pixels at 25 frames per second.

This mobile phone has a HSDPA speed of 10.2 Mbps and a HSUPA speed of 2 Mbps. The Vivaz also has push email, instant Messaging, GPS with A-GPS support, Wisepilot navigation, USB v2.0, Bluetooth and WAP.

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Software

The Sony Ericsson Vivaz  runs on the Symbian S60 5th Edition operating system. It will be able to run integrated applications such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube plus a document viewer and a couple of games. To power all this software the Vivaz has 75 MB RAM and a microSD (TransFlash) that can support up to 16GB, (8GB included). The Vivaz comes with a CPU ARM Cortex A8 720 MHz processor and a PowerVR SGX graphics processor.

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Availability & Pricing

In sum this is a nice looking touchscreen with the right amount of power. Whilst the Symbian software is not our ideal, it will certainly do the job for this mobile phone. The Sony Ericsson Vivaz should be available during Q1 2010. Sony Ericsson have not given a price on this device but it is estimated to be around the £400 mark.

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