14 DAY TRIAL // Rogers and Sony Ericsson have just announced the availability of the Vivaz Pro Symbian smartphone in Canada. The device is advertised as “Canada's new QWERTY and touchscreen phone with HD” and comes with a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard.
The slider is powered by a 720 MHz CPU, PowerVR SGX graphics and runs on a Symbian Series 60, 5th edition platform.
Thanks to the included QWERTY keyboard, Vivaz Pro is a complete quick messaging tool. In addition, Vivaz Pro allows consumers to create and broadcast videos in HD format.
“The Vivaz pro brings together the best of both worlds with a touchscreen interface and full QWERTY keyboard and is perfect for avid texters,” said Peter Farmer, Head of Marketing, Sony Ericsson North America.
“Shooting and sharing brilliant HD content is what many consumers want from their mobile devices right now and at a very attractive price, we are putting the power of spontaneous HD in the hands of Canadians with Vivaz pro,” added Farmer.
Besides its slide-out keyboard the Symbian gadget sports a 5-megapixel camera with auto focus, LED flash, touch focus, geo-tagging, face and smile detection, image stabilizer and video-calling.
It's capable of recording HD videos which can be shared via the web with the Quick Facebook and Quick YouTube applications.
For those out of the loop, here are the slider's highlights: 3.2- inch TFT resistive touchscreen with 16 million colors support and 360x640 pixel resolution, accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, scratch-resistant surface, turn-to-mute and snoozing alarms, handwriting recognition, 75 MB internal memory, microSD card slot for memory expansion (up to 16GB, 8GB card included), HSDPA 10.2 Mbps, HSUPA, 2 Mbps, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and GPS with A-GPS suppport.
The Vivaz pro is now available for purchase in Canada from Rogers Communications starting at $49.99 on a three year voice plan.