Style & Handling Summary for Sony Ericsson Vivaz
The curvy and slender Sony Ericsson Vivaz is available in four colours and has a 3.2-inch touch-screen, making it a very stylish affair. You can check out the Sony Ericsson Vivaz deals here.
User Friendliness Summary
The resistive touch-screen is pretty good, but the on-screen keyboard is slow and the user interface frustrating once you get past the top-level icons.
Feature Set Summary
The HD video is the Sony Ericsson Vivaz’s killer application, and the camera also packs a punch. The rest, though, is a disappointment.
Performance Summary
The accelerometer does its own thing regardless of what you want it to do, and the keyboard is slow and none too accurate. But the camera and video work fantastically.
Battery Power Summary
320 minutes’ talktime makes for an average battery life.
Full Review and Specification for the Sony Ericsson Vivaz
We’re all used to impressive camera phones, with snappers beefier than our standalone digital cameras. Now it seems that high-definition video cameras are about to take centre stage. The Vivaz can record 720p video, which is an incredible achievement, but, like the rest of Sony Ericsson’s multimedia range of phones, it doesn’t excel at much else. You can check out the Sony Ericsson Vivaz deals here.
Style and handling on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz
The Sony Ericsson Vivaz is a striking-looking phone, slim and curvy with a metallic sheen that enhances its slender shape. It’s available in black, silver, blue or red and it feels comfortable in the hand. A wide-screen, 3.2-inch, WGVA touch-screen dominates the front fascia.
On the top left-hand corner is a cunningly positioned 3.5mm audio port and on the right-hand side sit dedicated buttons for both camera and video camera. What looks like a giant professional zoom lens on the back of the phone turns out just to be decorative, which is a cheeky move on Sony Ericsson’s part. It’s also unnecessary, as this is one of the most advanced cameras you will find on a phone, and the lens does physically move inside the casing.
User interface on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz
The Sony Ericsson Vivaz is powered by Symbian S60 5th edition, which is already dated, no fun to use and has no central apps store. This is overlaid by the Sony Ericsson interface that we saw on the Aino and Satio, which is far more stylish but just as limited.
The default theme is five screens that you navigated using a toolbar at the top. Four of these are basically large widgets which you can customise for Twitter, favourite contacts and gallery, for example. The last is a list of eight shortcuts. If you’re used to an Android phone, or even a Samsung TouchWiz handset, the customisation options here will seem pretty limited, but you still get more choice than you would on a BlackBerry, for example.
To find the rest of the programs, simply press the central all-programs keys; for apps, you need to go to another folder further in.
Touch-screen on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz
We’ve banged on in the past about the superiority of capacitive touch-screens over resistive, but Sony Ericsson has ignored us, and carries on pushing the latter. However, as resistive touch-screens go, this one is pretty responsive. You need to press harder but the top-level icons are finger friendly and vivid. One level in, though, and it’s all white-on-black text menus.
Annoyingly you need to tap once to select icons and twice for menu selections, which can get confusing. The scrolling method used is also odd: instead of simply dragging your finger over a list to scroll, you have to press and drag on a scrollbar at the side.
There are also flaws with the accelerometer, which sometimes switches formats for no apparent reason and at other times takes forever to change at all. More frustratingly, it is inactive in many functions so when typing in the browser we had no choice but to do it in landscape.
Video and camera on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz
The camera functionality on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz is excellent for shooting both still and video footage. The eight-megapixel camera has an LED flash and auto-focus, and gives you clear, well-coloured results even in low light conditions. Instant shutter release means you can capture action with little to no blur, and even in darker conditions without a flash, night mode produced pictures with true colours, albeit a bit soft around the edges. You get a choice of adjustment settings including white balance, exposure, twilight, portrait and sport.
But it’s the video camera that gives the Vivaz its USP, and this is a good one, with an HD lens, a microphone and video light. Shooting in daylight produces crisp video with bright colours, and picks up both background and foreground light pretty well.
We shot a test video at night in a high street with lit windows, and while there were some light trails when we panned the camera across, it only took a couple of seconds to the light balance to adjust, and it produced a pretty clear picture. Our final test was in a dark room using the video light, and this was the only place we got a dodgy result, with soft, noisy results.
The real highlight of the video camera on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz is the continuous focus feature, which automatically focuses the camera on the central object and refocuses rapidly. When we tested it on a landscape shot with a text-covered box at the front, we had a clear shot in less than a second.
The display doesn’t show up the HD videos to the best of their capability, but it does show web videos nicely. YouTube is well integrated, and you can share videos directly to your account when you are in a Wi-Fi area.
Email and internet on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz
Email on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz is fairly basic, with an unresponsive touch-screen keyboard, a text-only interface and push support for Microsoft Exchange accounts only.
We added our Gmail account and found that we had to send and receive manually to get new mails. And because the client can’t read HTML, and graphics within out emails ended up as a group of symbols.
The keyboard makes typing laborious as you have to press quite hard, and accuracy isn’t great either. On top of that, there’s no auto-suggest, although there is predictive text, which is a little odd for a touch-screen keyboard.
The lack of full HTML is a disappointment, but pages are quite quick to load. You automatically get mobile-optimised sites but if you want to view a full website, it won’t resize automatically so you have to swipe around to see all the content, often hitting links accidently along the way. Pictures render a bit blurry and text is ragged, but if you click through to a photo you will see it clearer and sharper.
The verdict on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz
In terms of media functionality, the Sony Ericsson Vivaz is superb. But there are too many flaws to make it a serious contender: the unintuitive user interface, unresponsive keyboard, non-HTML web browser and mediocre email all count against it. You can check out the Sony Ericsson Vivaz deals here.
The curvy and slender Sony Ericsson Vivaz is available in four colours and has a 3.2-inch touch-screen, making it a very stylish affair. You can check out the Sony Ericsson Vivaz deals here.
User Friendliness Summary
The resistive touch-screen is pretty good, but the on-screen keyboard is slow and the user interface frustrating once you get past the top-level icons.
Feature Set Summary
The HD video is the Sony Ericsson Vivaz’s killer application, and the camera also packs a punch. The rest, though, is a disappointment.
Performance Summary
The accelerometer does its own thing regardless of what you want it to do, and the keyboard is slow and none too accurate. But the camera and video work fantastically.
Battery Power Summary
320 minutes’ talktime makes for an average battery life.
Full Review and Specification for the Sony Ericsson Vivaz
We’re all used to impressive camera phones, with snappers beefier than our standalone digital cameras. Now it seems that high-definition video cameras are about to take centre stage. The Vivaz can record 720p video, which is an incredible achievement, but, like the rest of Sony Ericsson’s multimedia range of phones, it doesn’t excel at much else. You can check out the Sony Ericsson Vivaz deals here.
Style and handling on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz
The Sony Ericsson Vivaz is a striking-looking phone, slim and curvy with a metallic sheen that enhances its slender shape. It’s available in black, silver, blue or red and it feels comfortable in the hand. A wide-screen, 3.2-inch, WGVA touch-screen dominates the front fascia.
On the top left-hand corner is a cunningly positioned 3.5mm audio port and on the right-hand side sit dedicated buttons for both camera and video camera. What looks like a giant professional zoom lens on the back of the phone turns out just to be decorative, which is a cheeky move on Sony Ericsson’s part. It’s also unnecessary, as this is one of the most advanced cameras you will find on a phone, and the lens does physically move inside the casing.
User interface on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz
The Sony Ericsson Vivaz is powered by Symbian S60 5th edition, which is already dated, no fun to use and has no central apps store. This is overlaid by the Sony Ericsson interface that we saw on the Aino and Satio, which is far more stylish but just as limited.
The default theme is five screens that you navigated using a toolbar at the top. Four of these are basically large widgets which you can customise for Twitter, favourite contacts and gallery, for example. The last is a list of eight shortcuts. If you’re used to an Android phone, or even a Samsung TouchWiz handset, the customisation options here will seem pretty limited, but you still get more choice than you would on a BlackBerry, for example.
To find the rest of the programs, simply press the central all-programs keys; for apps, you need to go to another folder further in.
Touch-screen on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz
We’ve banged on in the past about the superiority of capacitive touch-screens over resistive, but Sony Ericsson has ignored us, and carries on pushing the latter. However, as resistive touch-screens go, this one is pretty responsive. You need to press harder but the top-level icons are finger friendly and vivid. One level in, though, and it’s all white-on-black text menus.
Annoyingly you need to tap once to select icons and twice for menu selections, which can get confusing. The scrolling method used is also odd: instead of simply dragging your finger over a list to scroll, you have to press and drag on a scrollbar at the side.
There are also flaws with the accelerometer, which sometimes switches formats for no apparent reason and at other times takes forever to change at all. More frustratingly, it is inactive in many functions so when typing in the browser we had no choice but to do it in landscape.
Video and camera on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz
The camera functionality on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz is excellent for shooting both still and video footage. The eight-megapixel camera has an LED flash and auto-focus, and gives you clear, well-coloured results even in low light conditions. Instant shutter release means you can capture action with little to no blur, and even in darker conditions without a flash, night mode produced pictures with true colours, albeit a bit soft around the edges. You get a choice of adjustment settings including white balance, exposure, twilight, portrait and sport.
But it’s the video camera that gives the Vivaz its USP, and this is a good one, with an HD lens, a microphone and video light. Shooting in daylight produces crisp video with bright colours, and picks up both background and foreground light pretty well.
We shot a test video at night in a high street with lit windows, and while there were some light trails when we panned the camera across, it only took a couple of seconds to the light balance to adjust, and it produced a pretty clear picture. Our final test was in a dark room using the video light, and this was the only place we got a dodgy result, with soft, noisy results.
The real highlight of the video camera on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz is the continuous focus feature, which automatically focuses the camera on the central object and refocuses rapidly. When we tested it on a landscape shot with a text-covered box at the front, we had a clear shot in less than a second.
The display doesn’t show up the HD videos to the best of their capability, but it does show web videos nicely. YouTube is well integrated, and you can share videos directly to your account when you are in a Wi-Fi area.
Email and internet on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz
Email on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz is fairly basic, with an unresponsive touch-screen keyboard, a text-only interface and push support for Microsoft Exchange accounts only.
We added our Gmail account and found that we had to send and receive manually to get new mails. And because the client can’t read HTML, and graphics within out emails ended up as a group of symbols.
The keyboard makes typing laborious as you have to press quite hard, and accuracy isn’t great either. On top of that, there’s no auto-suggest, although there is predictive text, which is a little odd for a touch-screen keyboard.
The lack of full HTML is a disappointment, but pages are quite quick to load. You automatically get mobile-optimised sites but if you want to view a full website, it won’t resize automatically so you have to swipe around to see all the content, often hitting links accidently along the way. Pictures render a bit blurry and text is ragged, but if you click through to a photo you will see it clearer and sharper.
The verdict on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz
In terms of media functionality, the Sony Ericsson Vivaz is superb. But there are too many flaws to make it a serious contender: the unintuitive user interface, unresponsive keyboard, non-HTML web browser and mediocre email all count against it. You can check out the Sony Ericsson Vivaz deals here.
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