Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro Symbian smartphone I've seen the original Vivaz - reviewed here - and found it to be a bit of a curate's egg: good in parts, though I forgave its quirks in favour of its stylish look and quality camera. Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro Sony Ericsson's Vivaz Pro: eye-catching and comfortable in the hand Now comes the Vivaz Pro, aimed, as the name …
If they had put Android in there they would have needed a much faster processor and much more RAM, just to make that dog of an OS run even slightly smoothly. The phone would have cost 600 instead of 350. This is what you get for 350 these days, at least until Symbian^3 hits the market. Symbian is the only low end OS in town unless you are Samsung (and you have BADA)
Why? Why anyone would still consider something like that is beyond me. This must be really aimed at anyone who isn't in touch with the market...
If you want to go to a multifunction phone with touch you really need capacitive as a bare minimum, but also at the bottom end RIM (if just email and a bit of browsing is your thing) but want anything more than the only real choices are iPhone or Android based (but again watch out for buying the right hardware...).....
Cant say I have ever had a problem with resistive touch screens. Im a multi function user. android doesnt work with a lot of bluetooth hardware and you are at odds to find 1) a phone that has what you want and 2) a manufacturer that offers android upgrades from 1.6 (for instance). Iphones are just laughable for business. Business contracts on iphones were a joke when we did out refresh last year.
We ended up with 20 omnias - fantatsic phones that do everything we wanted.
I don't think you mean it was a bit of a curate's egg. A bad egg is inedible, despite any good bits. The curate's a sycophant, trying to appease the bishop by saying parts of his bad egg are excellent. So, unless you mean this phone is totally rubbish with no redeeming features you've used the wrong phrase there... </pedant>
but the curate assured the bishop that parts of his were excellent. Although the curate was merely being sycophantic (a bad egg can have no good parts), the phrase "curate's egg" has fallen into (un?)common usage to apply to anything that, whilst rubbish, has some redeeming qualities.
In this case, the phone is not a good one, in spite of some good features (camera, keyboard).
Tsk.
Yes the curate is being a sycophant in trying not to appear critical of the bishop. He sought to make out that the egg was some balance of good and bad when the fact is that if the egg is not all good then it is entirely inedible. The point is that the good parts could not redeem the bad egg. This may be what the writer was trying to put across; that the entire phone is bad because not all of it is good. That is surely a truism in the ultra competitive smart phone market. On the other hand it could just be lazy use of metaphor.
Oh noes. I used 'metaphor' and 'truism' in a post about pedantry. That's not going to go so well.
I'm stunned that Sony still hasn't caught up yet. The one company that has the potential to truly rival - and beat - Apple in this sphere just isn't bringing up the goods. Perhaps it's time to ditch this Ericsson venture and go it alone? At least for the smart phone sphere.
Sony have some fantastic industrial designers and brands (PlayStation) they could leverage to produce a true prestige product. If only they'd get their bloody act together.
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