Sony Ericsson Vivaz pro User Reviews

tmorgan posted on 09 Apr 2011, 11:08

Good 7

insert Sim card

tmorgan has owned it for less then month before publishing this review

It gets stuck on the "insert SIM card" message which is annoying when you consider this locks you out of features which should be useable such as camera, audio/video recording, calculator, photo viewer, etc. All you can do is make a 911 call if you don't have a SIM. If there is an SD card present, the absence of a SIM card shouldn't lock out the phones many other features!

Build quality 6/10
It's a plasticblock

Reception 8/10

Call quality 8/10

Internet 7/10

Multimedia 7/10

Camera 8/10

UI speed 7/10

Everyday usage 7/10

Text input 9/10

Display 8/10

Battery 5/10
My Dell Streak 5 has better batery life but this Sony device is not as bad as my Blackberry Pearl.

tmorgan alternatives:

Dell Streak

yo yo! posted on 27 Mar 2011, 12:39

Good 8

pro

yo yo! has owned it for less then 3 months before publishing this review

good mobile,video is superb... touch screen is not at all good... it feels cheap... great design,battery charges quickly,5 mp is not enough,internet applicatn is good... overall the mobile is good... we can rate 7.5.........................................................................

Build quality 8/10

Reception 9/10

Call quality 9/10

Internet 7/10

Multimedia 7/10

Camera 7/10

UI speed 9/10

Everyday usage 6/10

Text input 7/10

Display 8/10

Battery 7/10

Pros

• design,video clarity

Cons

• touch screen

Vivaz Pro posted on 14 Feb 2011, 05:07

Excellent 10

Pro

Vivaz Pro has owned it for less then month before publishing this review

the problem is the lock button .... Crooked。but its Good use and i like it! ..

There are two large, rather significant, differences between the Vivaz pro and the original Vivaz. One is the addition of a full Qwerty keyboard, without adding more than a couple of millimetres to the thickness. The second is the camera, which is now just 5-megapixels instead of 8.

It's as if Sony Ericsson deliberately downgraded the camera to give the original, released only a few months before the Pro, a chance at still getting some sales. Otherwise, why would you not go for the Pro for the sake of 2.5mm extra in depth?

Given the fact the camera has dropped in pixels, the first question is whether it makes much difference to the quality of images. The short answer is, not really. There's an obvious drop in detail, but the sensor also has less noise in low light. Given the disappointing camera interface is unable to offer a simple auto-flash option, and the LED is far too dim to act as a proper flash, it's actually a good thing to be able to take better photos in dimly lit locations. You can also activate the camera even when the phone is locked, using the dedicated camera button, which also has a similar button for the camcorder next to it.

Build quality 10/10

Reception 10/10

Call quality 10/10

Internet 10/10

Multimedia 10/10

Camera 10/10

UI speed 10/10

Everyday usage 10/10

Text input 10/10

Display 10/10

Battery 10/10

Pros

• Good use
• Great design
• HD Video

Cons

• Two colour only

cdz posted on 31 Jan 2011, 14:03

Good 7

technician

cdz has owned it for less then 3 months before publishing this review

Had this phone for under a month when I noticed that the clock does not run to time. All software updates and upgrades done by myself and by rogers over the phone did not make it run correctly (it was losing about 15 s a day). It is currently back to sony for repair:-(.
I like the design and keyboard, but the touch screen is nothing like the i phones/touches if that is what you are used to.
Also after less than 2 months, the display orientation took much longer to stabilize, sometimes the wrong application button would activate due to this.
Hopefully this phone will perform better when it arrives back from the shop but as of now I'd say the quality of this phone is very questionable.

Build quality 8/10

Reception 8/10

Call quality 7/10

Internet 6/10

Multimedia 6/10

Camera 8/10

UI speed 7/10

Everyday usage 6/10

Text input 7/10

Display 7/10

Battery 8/10

Pros

• design and features

Cons

• poor software

Dobromir posted on 05 Jan 2011, 18:49

Average 6

Mr.

Dobromir has owned it for less then month before publishing this review

- the camera takes 5MP pictures which look beautiful on the phone screen (at 0.23MP), but on a computer monitor (1.2MP) they are ugly.
- the camera can shoot 720p/30fps video, but only for about 1 second. After that it skips the next few seconds, then you get a few extra frames, it skips the next few and so on.
- the buttons for the camera and the camcorder are tiny and with poor feedback - you are never sure if you started recording or not
- you can access your e-mail, but it does not work with Yahoo.com, So I created a new Yahoo.ca account and that worked perfectly.
- the phone plays MP4 videos, but not XVID videos - needs repackaging
- after playing 40 minutes of video the battery is almost completely drained
- the quality of the video is far worse compared to watching the same video on a computer screen, on bluray player or sony walman - some cut corners in the decoder
- the phone does not play the movies from money.cnn.com - supposedly missing Quicktime format
- the browser supports Adobe Flash just enough to see moving adds, but most stuff that you want to see does not work - some sites complain they need version 9, some just send you do Adobe for download - good luck with that
- Facebook and Chat applications failed to connect - that is Fido's fault
- the display is nice but not bright enough, I like the Apple display more

Build quality 8/10

Reception 8/10

Call quality 9/10

Internet 6/10

Multimedia 2/10

Camera 2/10

UI speed 7/10

Everyday usage 6/10

Text input 10/10

Display 7/10

Battery 3/10

Pros

• Sony design, very stylish, light, hardware keyboard, world phone (will work in Europe as well as in America)

Cons

• does not deliver on the promises - see the details in the review