Monday, December 13, 2010

Phone : Sony Ericsson U5i Vivaz




Hello & Hi Everyone,

Tonight, I will review a bit about my current phone which is the SE Vivaz. This i my first ever smartphone and got this phone back during mid-august and so happy with the phone's functionality and the 8 mega-pixel camera. Actually the phone itself is quite nice looking with its slim form factor design and cool vibrant colors to be choose from (mine is the venus red which looks a bit chic-like but hey, I'm happy anyway with the color).


As for the phone's design, it have a large 3.2 inch TFT touchscreen which really makes watching videos and movies seemingly superb with its HD capability as well.  So lets cut to the chase and let me show a few pictures of the phone together with its specs.
Based from GSMArena, the phone specs are as follows :

GENERAL

2G Network
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network
HSDPA 900 / 2100
HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100

Announced
2010, January

Status
Available. Released 2010, March

SIZE

Dimensions
107 x 51.7 x 12.5 mm
Weight
97 g

DISPLAY

Type
TFT resistive touchscreen, 16M colors

Size
360 x 640 pixels, 3.2 inches
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Scratch-resistant surface
- Turn-to-mute and snoozing alarms
- Handwriting recognition

SOUND

Alert types
Vibration; MP3 ringtones

Speakerphone
Yes
- 3.5 mm audio jack

MEMORY

Phonebook
Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall

Call records
Practically unlimited

Internal
75 MB storage

Card slot
microSD, up to 32 GB, 8GB included

DATA

GPRS
Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps

EDGE
Class 10, 236.8 kbps

3G
HSDPA, 10.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps

WLAN
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, DLNA

Bluetooth
Yes, v2.1 with A2DP

Infrared port
No

USB
Yes, microUSB v2.0

CAMERA

Primary
8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, check quality
Features
Video calling, touch focus, geo-tagging, face and smile detection
Video
Yes, 720p@24fps, continuous autofocus, video light

Secondary
No

FEATURES

OS
Symbian Series 60, 5th edition

CPU
720 MHz, PowerVR SGX graphics

Messaging
SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, IM, Push Email

Browser
WAP 2.0 / xHTML (NetFront)

Radio
Stereo FM radio

Games
Yes

Colors
Pink, Silver Moon, Cosmic Black, Galaxy Blue, Venus Ruby

GPS
Yes, with A-GPS support; Wisepilot navigation

Java
Yes, MIDP 2.1
- Google maps
- Facebook and Twitter apps
- YouTube and Picasa integration
- WMV/RV/MP4/3GP video player
- MP3/WMA/WAV/RA/AAC/M4A music player
- TrackID music recognition
- TV out (VGA resolution)
- Organizer
- QuickOffice document reader
- Gesture control
- Voice memo
- T9

BATTERY

Standard battery, Li-Po 1200 mAh
Stand-by
Up to 430 h (2G) / Up to 440 h (3G)
Talk time
Up to 13 h (2G) / Up to 5 h 20 min (3G)



Overall, its a decent phone with great apps especially those social networking ones like facebook and twitter and you can download more apps over the net and install it on the phone as well. The only downside is that it is a symbian based phone and with more and more android based phone storming the market, symbian tends to be less outdated.


To conclude it all, its a great phone for a suitable price range if you are looking for a smartphone which is trendy and came fully equip with all the things you need for everyday usage from a phone.

Wassalam.

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