New Phone

[LeightonBuzzard]

Sorry didn't know where to put this. Basically my phone contract runs out soon and I was wondering what phone to get; I like the Blackberry 9700 and the Nokia E72. I have had Sony Ericsson now for a few years and recently there've been many reliability issues and after speaking to a few people the later ones i.e the Vivaz and Satio are not any better.

Does anybody have the listed phones above and care to give a quick review?

Thanks, Tom

[Inverness]

LeightonBuzzard said:

Sorry didn't know where to put this. Basically my phone contract runs out soon and I was wondering what phone to get; I like the Blackberry 9700 and the Nokia E72. I have had Sony Ericsson now for a few years and recently there've been many reliability issues and after speaking to a few people the later ones i.e the Vivaz and Satio are not any better.

Does anybody have the listed phones above and care to give a quick review?

Thanks, Tom

Hi Tom

I got the new Vivaz last week and so far so good, I had the C905 before and before that the W810, so have been a SE man for last 4 years now.

I would comment on Vivaz as follows (I've never had a pure touchscreen phone but have used them)

Touch screen does get dirty/greasy due to fingers and when making calls. (This is somthing that happens with all touchscreen phones, I can spend upto 30mins with the phone clamped to my ear so of course it's going to get dirty/greasy)

You can change the home screen to look like your old SE phone. (same menu layout)

Bluetooth has no problems talking with my parrot and laptop, and wifes BMW.

Texting has been fine on the small qwerty keypad that comes up, I still make the same mistakes as when I had a Nokia about 15 years ago.

When I'm at home I'm not sure if I've connected to the web via the phone (so it comes out of my minutes) or via the wifi (so free).

Like all blokes I havn't read the manual, but I do think in this phone it would help!

The phone is very thin (compared to the C905) and light which I do really like.

The new SE Xperia X10 is out on Orange as of today and the the wife will get hers on Tuesday or Wednesday so will be nice to compare and contrast

HTH

[annodomini2]

Inverness said:

LeightonBuzzard said:

Sorry didn't know where to put this. Basically my phone contract runs out soon and I was wondering what phone to get; I like the Blackberry 9700 and the Nokia E72. I have had Sony Ericsson now for a few years and recently there've been many reliability issues and after speaking to a few people the later ones i.e the Vivaz and Satio are not any better.

Does anybody have the listed phones above and care to give a quick review?

Thanks, Tom

Hi Tom

I got the new Vivaz last week and so far so good, I had the C905 before and before that the W810, so have been a SE man for last 4 years now.

I would comment on Vivaz as follows (I've never had a pure touchscreen phone but have used them)

Touch screen does get dirty/greasy due to fingers and when making calls. (This is somthing that happens with all touchscreen phones, I can spend upto 30mins with the phone clamped to my ear so of course it's going to get dirty/greasy)

You can change the home screen to look like your old SE phone. (same menu layout)

Bluetooth has no problems talking with my parrot and laptop, and wifes BMW.

Texting has been fine on the small qwerty keypad that comes up, I still make the same mistakes as when I had a Nokia about 15 years ago.

When I'm at home I'm not sure if I've connected to the web via the phone (so it comes out of my minutes) or via the wifi (so free).

Like all blokes I havn't read the manual, but I do think in this phone it would help!

The phone is very thin (compared to the C905) and light which I do really like.

The new SE Xperia X10 is out on Orange as of today and the the wife will get hers on Tuesday or Wednesday so will be nice to compare and contrast

HTH

My opinion of the vivaz was when I had a play with one in vodafone shop the other week.

Ergonomically its ok, the touchscreen is ok, but the operating system behaves like its 5years out of date.

Camera is very good, but the Vivaz is missing that something special that makes a really good phone.