Sony Ericsson AT&T Vivaz page is live

By on Aug 4, 2010 at 4:40 PM
General August 4, 2010

A reader hit up our inbox to let us know that the Sony Ericsson Vivaz, due out on AT&T, is now live on SE’s website. The Phone is a quad-band GSM and UMTS/HSPA phone that will have an 8.1 megapixel camera with 720p video recording, 360 x 640 TFT touch-screen, Bluetooth, aGPS, micro-SD card slot, and will run the Symbian OS. The phone’s dimensions are 4.2 x 2.0 x 0.5 inches and it weighs in at 3.4 ounces. The phone will be available in Cosmic Black, Galaxy Blue, Moon Silver, or a sensual Venus Ruby. The site also lists an anemic 75 MB of memory for this particular offering. Eeeeeeesh! Hit the read link and let us know what you think!

Thanks, Sayon!

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  • linda wanahbui

    IM FIRST LINDAS!!!! HOODLI HOODLI

  • Fanboi

    Only 75MB of memory? What is this, 2001?

    • BB_Addict

      Brings back fond memories of my iPAQ with its 32MB of RAM and “Expansion Sleeve” so I could use a whopping 64MB CompactFlash card…..ahh good times.

    • Jeff

      no 1988

  • BB_Addict

    Congrats Sony-Ericsson, you have officially usurped the Torch as the worst new smart phone available for purchase on AT&T….

    • Chris

      Is this even considered a smart phone? Even if it was free I’d rather get the Aria which is free at LetsTalk and Wirefly.

      • Newtype

        Unless they removed symbian, yes, it is a smartphone.

  • Barack Hussein Obama

    that is too bad it doesn’t use a special Sony memory stick

  • Dream

    In other News the fascinate and gem will lanuch after the Driod 2 according to infomobile check out the news section of google and search for Samsung Fascinate

  • Mr. Bill

    To myself, Sony Ericcson, is almost from another planet, perhaps off of a alternate one.
    They are close to the mark, but strangely off of it enough to warrant passing.

    Hell this one even comes in an Alien os.

  • Fentruck

    Sony Ericsson AAAAAAND Symbian?

    Where to I sign up?!?!?!?!

    (answer: The Toilet Store)

  • Dara

    The 75 mb is the left over internal flash memory, not the ram. I’m under the impression that this is the Kurara and that it has 256 mb of ram.

  • http://tech.jdpadgett.com Jared

    The Vivaz is really light-weight. It is hard to believe it is a 720p video camera. The Symbian is really hard to get used to though, especially after being immersed in Android. The camera light is a pretty cool feature. All phones should feature a camera light. It even has an option to wait for a smile before the picture snaps. The feature works pretty well. I think I am more excited about the Xperia X10 news than this, though.

  • Jim

    A Symbian based smart phone with a resistive touch screen and no app store? Cool! Where do I sign up?

    Seriously Sony Ericsson, what?

    If you absolutely must get a Symbian phone, then get an unlocked Nokia. At least you get the free bundled in Ovi Maps with voice navigation and their free push email service.

    • jj

      I have the Nokia Symbian phone with Ovi Maps and voice navigation. The map is not as intuitive and slow to update. I like the Google maps on Symbian better. Although Nokia is a great phone running Symbian OS but the phone reception for making and receiving calls is not as well as SE phones. I am getting Vivaz and X10 mini pro.

  • DubYa

    They couldn’t pay me to use this phone…

  • jojobu

    You guys are all haters and you are phone nerds and still have no clue how the sales side of things work. The phone was made that way so that AT&T reps will have to sell a memory card to the customer so they can earn commission, cause that’s part of how they get paid.
    SE made the jump form m2 to micro and that was enough to make the point.

    • Blog Retards for Life

      Yes, because AT&T’s bread and butter is memory card margin.

      Wow.

    • clefhanger

      My wife just got hers… it shipped with a 2 gig micro SD card included

  • SamIamIam

    That 75MB must be a mistake… There’s no way. It’s gotta be like Dara said.

    • Hlorri

      “Memory” is such an ambiguous term, especially when it comes to phones.

      Yes, it refers to free space on drive C: (flash), not RAM. It has 256MB of RAM, twice that of the Nokia N97.

      Still, in the Symbian game, best stick with Nokia. Many applications are only available through the OVI store (and thus for Nokia only). Then there are loads of Nokia-specific applications like OVI Maps (free offline navigation), SportsTracker, Mail for Exchange, Nokia “Point and Find”, Silverlight for Symbian, etc.

      Sony Ericsson feature phones have a lot of very nice features (like automatic download of podcasts in the background without needing an application open; the best Bluetooth stack in the industry; better e-mail reader than Nokia smartphones, impressive multi-tasking even with Java/J2ME apps, etc) — but when it comes to Symbian, they just don’t cut it the same way.

  • serpentor

    Calm down peoples. 75MB might not work for iOS or Android, but I would guess symbian doesn’t require a whole lot to run well.

    • walt

      Actually it does. Anyone who’s used Symbian can tell you that when opening up something such as the camera and seeing the “not enough memory” message pop up is quite annoying.
      There’s no reason for this phone to have such limited memory onboard.

    • Herr synnberg

      Seriously, could the guy writing the article check the facts before he makes such comments?

      The phone has 256 MB RAM. The 75 MB is free memory for installing applications, storing mail etc. The phone comes with an 8GB memory card (MicroSD). Symbian runs very well on 256MB RAM.

      Unlike Android, Symbian can install any app on to the memory card, so the lack of gigabytes of internal memory is not a big deal.

      Signed,
      Milestone user.

  • p51d007

    But it’s not an iPhone…I want an iPhone…it has wi-fi’s.

  • ViniD

    Once apon a time SE had amazing phones i rmr when I got K800, which came out like 4 years ago and it had a front facing camera for video calls. I wish they made better phones they need to do something b/c there camera and video quality is amazing but everything else is wack. Until then I am very happy with my captivate unless the X10 comes with 2.2 on it then ill switch

    • ViniD

      for all you ppl that dont believe me check it out.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_K800i

    • thatpimprod

      dude we believe you. It is just somehow SE has managed to fall further behind than Nokia…It is a shame. This is the phone you give to someone you dont like but they have to use it….

      • Jason LI

        Does the fluffer gig pay well?

  • Dara

    I’d love to see a comparison of this phone’s 720p video to that of an iPhone, HTC, or Moto.

    Just so that everyone can figure out who’s in second place when Nokia releases the N8 in a few weeks.

    • Newtype

      I’m sure gsmarena will do a decent review — and yes, the N8 will probably take the crown.

  • ios

    Id take this over RIM’s new offering hahah

    • tech junkie for life

      Just goes to show how little you know about both platforms then!

  • walt

    I have a feeling that SE made AT&T take this in as a package deal with the X10.

    • Mr. Bill

      AT&T got bent then.

  • Jason LI

    OMG I’m getting one. I can’t believe it only weighs 3.4 ounces!!

  • JJFNIGHTS80

    OH GOD PLEASE LET THIS BE TRUE. I’ve been dying to get a SONY Ericson phone for ever!!!!!!

  • Ry 23

    I can’t wait for at&t to bring this hone in the US… I really want one so bad.

  • http://www.itsagadget.com Andrei

    Sony Ericsson Vivaz impress us with the 8 megapixel camera and HD recording feature. Having Symbian as OS doesn’t make this an important smartphone. We made a preview here, http://www.itsagadget.com/2010/08/sony-ericsson-vivaz-is-capable-of-hd-recording.html

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