The Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro Review
The Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro Mobile Phone Review
Background and Look and feel
The Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro is identical to its sister phone, the Sony Ericsson Vivaz, with the exception of a few slight changes. The most obvious difference is that the Vivaz Pro is a slider phone.
Check out more hot deals on Sony Ericsson mobile phones.
Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro
Hardware – Display, Keyboard, Battery, Communications, Memory, Connectors
The QUERTY keyboard that slides out is not only practical, because of the wide spaced keys, but it’s also very good looking. Moreover, despite the addition of the keyboards the phone only gains an extra 2mm in length and depth.
In terms of hardware the Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro has the same impressive display as the original Vivaz. The screen is a 360×640 pixel, 216 colour 16:9 nHD touchscreen (TFT). The screen also has an accelerometer which allows you to auto-rotate the screen.
Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro
Unfortunately the biggest disappointment of the Vivaz Pro is the removal of the 8 megapixel camera. This has been replaced by a built-in 5 MP, 2560 x 1920 pixels camera which comes with autofocus, LED flash, touch focus, geo-tagging, plus face and smile detection. The camera is capable of taking HD video (1280×720 pixels)
Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro
The Vivaz Pro has push email, instant Messaging, GPS with A-GPS support and Wisepilot navigation. The Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro also comes with USB v2.0, Bluetooth, WAP and has a HSDPA speed of 10.2 Mbps and a HSUPA speed of 2 Mbps. According to the manufacturer the battery will give you 430 hours on standby and has a talk time of 5h 20m on 3G.
Software
The Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro comes with Symbian S60 5th Edition operating system which will run apps like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. To help deal with the social networking apps and games this phone has a CPU ARM Cortex A8 720 MHz processor, a PowerVR SGX graphics processor, 75 MB RAM and a microSD (TransFlash) that can support up to 16GB, (8GB included).
Availability & Pricing
The Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro is a nice phone which should be quite successful. As yet it is unclear where it will be sold but it should start to become available in the first quarter of 2010. No guidance has been given on price.
General
| Status | Coming soon |
| Announced | February 2010 |
| Network (2G) | GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 / GSM 850 |
| Network (3G) | HSDPA 2100 / HSDPA 900 |
| Form factor | Slider |
| Antenna type | Internal |
Size
| Dimensionsweight | 109.0 x 52.0 x 15.0 mm 117.0g |
Display
| Type | Graphical |
| Coloured | Yes, TFT touchscreen, 16M colors |
| Size | 3.20 inch |
| Resolution | 360 x 640 pixels |
| - Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate - Full QWERTY keyboard - Scratch-resistant surface |
Memory
| Shared memory | 75 MB |
| - Photocall - microSD (TransFlash) up to 16GB, 8GB included - CPU 720 MHz, PowerVR SGX graphics |
Ringtones
| Polyphonic ringtones | Yes |
| Ringtone profiles | Yes |
| - MP3 ringtones - 3.5 mm audio jack |
Networking
| HSDPA speed | 7.2 Mbps |
| GPRS | Yes, Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps |
| EDGE | Yes, Class 10, 236.8 kbps |
| WLAN | Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, DLNA |
| USB | Yes, microUSB v2.0 |
| Bluetooth | Yes, 2.1 with A2DP |
| WAP | Yes |
| Browser | Yes, WAP 2.0 / xHTML |
| Email client | Yes |
| - Symbian Series 60, 5th edition - HSUPA - GPS with A-GPS support |
Features
| Vibration | Yes |
| SMS | Send / Receive |
| MMS | Send / Receive |
| Camera | Builtin, 5 MP, 2560?1920 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, touch focus, geo-tagging, face and smile detection, video (1280×720 pixels) |
| Java | Yes, MIDP 2.1 |
| Games | Yes, (changeable) |
| Clock | Yes |
| Alarm | Yes |
| Calculator | Yes |
| Calendar | Yes |
| To-do list | Yes |
| Voice memo | Yes |
| T9 | Yes |
| Multiple numbers / contact | Yes |
| Handsfree | Yes |
| Headset jack | Yes |
| FM Radio | Yes |
| - Gesture control - Google maps - Facebook and Twitter apps - YouTube and Picasa integration - WMV/RV/MP4/3GP video player - MP3/WMA/WAV/RA/AAC/M4A music player - Organizer |
Standard Battery
| Type | Li-Po |
| Standby time | GSM: 430h / 3G: 440h |
| Talk time | GSM: 12h 30m / 3G: 5h 10m |