Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro: A Great Smartphone

By Author: Jerry Smith
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The Vivaz Pro is the second of four phones Sony Ericsson announced back in February at MWC. At first glance, it very similar to the Vivaz, but it adds a full slide out QWERTY keypad to the design, which makes a notable difference between this two models.

The original Sony Ericsson Vivaz was a pretty nice mobile phone, but has a difficulty with an unresponsive touch screen display, which makes the users quite frustrating when typing text on the phone. Thankfully, the Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro should fix this problem, as it packs in a full sliding QWERTY keypad, which can give you different choice to experience smooth text entering.

The Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro comes with a Symbian 5th Edition operating system complete with an intuitive touch user interface, identical to the Vivaz. It sports a 3.2 inches TFT resistive touch screen which can display million colors at a resolution of 360 x 640 pixels. The screen provides an outstanding viewing experience when you are viewing pictures, videos or movies. And there is ...
... a accelerometer sensor supporting an automatic rotation feature, which means the screen display will respond automatically when you turn your mobile phone. In addition, the home screen theme can be changed to one of five different interfaces.

In terms of communication, the Vivaz Pro provides a variety of messaging services including SMS, MMS, e-mail, IM and social network integration. Social networking is quite a pleasant experience; thanks to the built in Twitter and Facebook applications, which allow you to access the popular social network websites to update your status or simply to contact with their friends. It features A-GPS navigation along with Google Maps support as well as Wisepilot navigation, which do a great favor for you when you are in an unknown area. This handset can be connected to other mobiles, computers or your laptops when you need to transfer data through either a micro USB connection or a Bluetooth. Owing to the built in EDGE & GPRS technology, you can enjoy high speed data transfer rates when transferring data between devices. This phone also comes with 3G and Wi Fi connectivity for you accessing internet at a relatively high speed.

The Vivaz Pro has a 5 megapixel camera which comes with a huge selection of imaging feature including a 4 times digital zoom feature, photo flash light, face detection feature, smile detection option, an automatic focus, an image stabilizer as well as geo-tagging. you will enjoy taking pictures of your friends or memorable moments and uploading them onto your social networking sites. It deserves to mention that the Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro mobile phone already comes with a 75 MB on-board memory and a pre-packaged 8 GB SD card that can be expandable up to 32 GB for you to store a great of files or music.

Speaking of battery life, the 1200mAh battery performs quite good with 12.5 hours of talk time on a 2G GSM network or 5.3 hours of talk time on a 3G HDDPA network, but this may vary depending on the features being used during this time. It can stand by up to 430 hours on 2G network as well as 440 hours on 3G network.

On the whole, the Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro works well as a phone, even though it is not so much outstanding in terms of voice clarity or reception. You may be a little difficult to hear the voice clearly on your end. However, considering its tons of features and reasonable price, it is also a good phone to buy.
Jerry Smith, the editor of http://www.mobilephoneonly.co.uk. An expert on mobile phone and an observer of UK telecommunication market. He writes reviews on latest mobile phones, and also suggests promotional deals and special offers from mobile phone retailers in UK.