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The editors liked
Pluses
Very slim
Easy to grip
Physical button for video photo in addition to camera
The photography and video capture are top notch
Great device for a bit of music and movie watching too
Nice feel and ergonomic design
Crisp LCD screen
Camera easy to use
HD video recording
Easy to set up
Comfortable level of customisation
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The HD video camera has continuous focus and good results
The eightmegapixel camera works well even in low light and there’s a cunningly positioned 3.5mm audio port.
Great looks
Video looks ace
Media skills
Compact and lightweight. Stylish curved design. Smooth HD footage. Dedicated video button. Alert continuous focus. Accomplished camera. Scant choice of downloadable apps.
Impressive video quality
Bright touchscreen
720p video capture
Camera performance
The Fast Port connector is gone
High resolution screen
Excellent battery life
The editors didn't like
Minuses
Interface showing its age
Limited OS
Basic browser
Slow and clunky UI - we'd have loved to see this feature set on Android
Can be slow and glitchy
Resistive screen
Poor app selection
Internet settings never remembered
Extremely unintuitive screen lock
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Symbian still clunky
Camera could be better
Fitful resistive touchscreen. No lens cap. Side located 3.5mm headphone jack. Music player lacks audio boosters. Little internal memory.
Abstract: Sony has come up recently with its latest offerings. It is the U5i or else you can also call it the Sony Ericsson Vivaz. A new smartphone with a completely new look. The design is all-new with a trendy curved black.The back of the Vivaz is moon silver ...
Overall the Sony Ericsson Vivaz is a decent mobile phone, there are some features that we would like to see improved, for example the Symbian OS just isn’t as good as Google’s Android was on the Xperia X10.The Vivaz is well made, and has some nice feat...
Published: 2010-04-06, Author: Richard , review by: engadget.com
Decent camera quality720p video capture with continuous autofocusIntuitive media playback interface
Cheap plastic feelLack of consistency with interface elementsBuggy apps
The Vivaz is no doubt a good specimen for showing what Sony Ericsson does best -- great video and photo capture along with a user-friendly media playback interface, not to mention being a world's first with its nice continuous auto-focus 720p video record...
Likeable, compact and lightweight, Brilliant at HD video playback, Saturated screen colors, Two camera shutters
Its display is almost unusable in direct sunlight, Mediocre snapshot quality, Gets extremely sluggish at times, The boxed headset pair is awful, Lacks builtin DivX and Xvid support
Similarly to the 600MHz processor of the Samsung OMNIA HD i8910, the chip the Sony Ericsson Vivaz integrates is based on ARM’s famous Cortex A8 architecture, but runs at 720MHz instead. Moreover, its power is clearly felt at not just HD video playback,...
Abstract: Homescreen As with the Satio, the Vivaz uses vanilla S60 5th Edition, with no Symbian-provided bells and whistles (sadly), but with a custom 'kinetic' front end added by Sony Ericsson. This comprises a Flash-based replacement standby theme, plus a com...
Abstract: The Sony Ericsson Vivaz smartphone Both features are relatively rare and reasonably impressive. The phone's image and sound quality are pretty good, but the review model I had seemed to struggle when I switched to 8MP camera mode from 6MP. Users can ...
Beautiful physical design , Great media player , 8GB microSD included , Solid battery life
Camera fails to deliver , Cumbersome UI, steep learning curve , Woeful web browser , Limited app support
Don't be lured in by the promise of the camera, it simply doesn't deserve your attention. The Vivaz handles basic tasks, but struggles with the more advanced features we expect....
Abstract: Sporting an 8.1 megapixel camera and the ability to shoot 720p high-definition video, the Sony Ericsson Vivaz is a touchscreen phone aimed squarely at the YouTube generation.Video quality is admittedly good by YouTube standards, in line with that of t...
