Sony Ericsson Vivaz - The Fashionable and Compact Touch Screen Phone

This is another incredible Sony Ericsson's touch screen phone publicized on March 5, 2010. It was Sony Ericsson Vivaz that is available in different color options namely Moon Silver, Cosmic Black, Galaxy Blue and Venus Ruby. The mobile phone appears to be dazzling with the distinctive curved backside battery case. Its measurements are 107 mm in height and 51.7 mm wide. This phone is a light-weight model as it weighs just 97 grams. This device runs on Symbian OS S60, fifth edition.

Display

The device possesses a 3.2-inch TFT touch-screen with 16 million colors and facilitates an image resolution of 360 X 640 pixels. Sony Ericsson Vivaz presents eight megapixels camera using the image resolution as much as 2048x1536p of graphic quality. The camera attributes are auto-focus, LED flash, video light, video calls, geo-tagging, face and smile detection, touch focus, and continual autofocus. Additionally, it contains accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, scratch-resistant surface, turn-to-mute and snoozing alarms and handwriting recognition

CPU and RAM

This handset owns a 720 MHz processor (PowerVR SGX GPU) with the 256 megabytes of RAM and built-in garden of 75 megabytes (microSD card 8 GB provided) which can be expanded to as many as 32 gigabytes by adding an additional microSD card removable storage.

Multimedia

The Sony Ericsson Vivaz has a mp3 player which supports MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, AAC, M4A file formats together with a movie player that supports WMV, RV, MP4, 3GP file formats. It has also stereo FM radio with RDS to complete the multi-media features of the handset. the smartphone has the capacity to record video at 24 frames per second with 720p quality.

Connectivity

In the case of connectivity, Vivaz works with GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA up to 10.2 Mbps and HSUPA up to 2.0 Mbps. Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and DLNA function. In order to transfer data or to connect to other handsets, Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP and microUSB 2.0 features is available.

Power

Vivaz features a standard Li-Po battery of 1200 mAh which offers a stand by time of up to 430 hours (on 2G mode) / up to 440 hours (on 3G mode) and talk time of up to 430 hours (on 2G mode) / approximately 440 hours (3G).

Additional features

You'll find number of features of Sony Ericsson Vivaz which consist of Voice Call, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM (Instant Messaging), assisted-GPS support, text input prediction, Voice memo, TrackID music recognition, Google Maps, YouTube app, Picasa integration, Gesture control, Quick Office document reader, and TV out (VGA quality).

Pros

This phone is good for music playing, business and camera purpose. In addition, it features a better audio and video quality and possesses also a bright and vivid touchscreen display.

Weakness

Regrettably, there is no front camera for video call built into Sony Ericsson Vivaz phone and also the camera lens at the back side of the body is too exposed.