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@Stu, HelloOX2 sounds interesting, although silly that it's necessary.
I suppose I just choose "Satio" from their list of available phones then. Will look into it if I end up buying the Vivaz Pro.

@Tsepz, Motorola Milestone-2 could be an option too. Actually when using the search option at GSMArena.com, there were 2 Motorola phones in the result. MT716 and Droid XTreme I believe it was. All 3 are too big, like HTC Desire Z, but I might go that way despite. It depends on the audio playback quality and video-recording quality. Will have to watch a lot of review at YouTube.
There is one problem with Motorola though. They don't seem to be available much in my country. At least not their Android devices. Not sure why that is.

Good audio-playback quality and good video-recording quality are the two most important features to me. But I still get annoyed by lack of smileys in SMS, lack of buttons, being unable to customize my MMS, or unable to send files via bluetooth etc.
Back when I bought Nokia N82, I also bought A-SMS to get smileys. But it's bloody anoying waiting for A-SMS to start up everytime I want to read an SMS. Then I'd rather live without smileys in my SMS.

Again I have to say.... that SE's feature-phones / Java Platform phones often seem much more smart to me than actual smartphones, because they always have all the stuff I need. Smartphones rarely does, and finding an app that gives me the missing feature is often problematic and never gives me an optimal solution.

Anyway, I've been looking at lots of Vivaz Pro video-recording samples at YouTube. I see what people mean about missing contrast. Disappointing, but I might be able to live with it. Volume seems too low though, and that part I can't accept. Nice with the autofocus though.
So since there doesn't seem to be a solution for the volume problem, I guess I have to drop Vivaz Pro, and that's annoying, because I'm sure any other choice will give me less audio playback quality.
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Posted: 2010-10-31 08:26:34
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Well, it was a touch decision, but after much surfing and browsing video samples from Vivaz Pro and Desire Z, I ended up ordering Vivaz Pro.

I'll probably post some comments about Vivaz Pro in this thread in about a week.
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Posted: 2010-10-31 18:32:05
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walk away from and never look back. Symbian is a dead end, get a samsung galaxy s.

i wish i could do the same but my satio cost me too much.
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Posted: 2010-11-01 22:45:11
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Samsung Galaxy S is too big, and it doesn't have a keyboard. I also doubt it'll produce the same audio playback quality as Sony Ericsson phones does.
Vivaz Pro is the device that matches most of my requirements.
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Posted: 2010-11-02 06:37:40
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Reason why I advocate the galaxy S is because my friend got the first shipment of it and the initial quality was way better than the Satio, picture, sound and video are all great. All I'm saying is, forget SE...seriously...learn from all of our mistakes.
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Posted: 2010-11-02 09:03:08
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Google gives me a ton of rather useless links when I search for Symbian software. Over half my downloads won't install for whatever reason.

Can anyone recommend me a good source for Symbian software for Vivaz Pro?

Does anyone know of PowerMP3 supports the headset from the Aino (Yes, I'm too lazy to look up the model number)? I mean, it has buttons for Play and Next and Previous track, and I'm glad to see that Vivaz Pro supports it. Does PowerMP3 also?
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Posted: 2010-11-04 15:17:12
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Well, I've had the Vivaz Pro for nearly a week now, and I have to say that I'm surprised I don't find it as useless as I thought I would.

The music player is actually rather nice, limited but gives good sound. I have no clue what SE were thinking putting the jack-plug on the side. It's an annoying place which prevents the phone from fitting in my pocket when I have a headset in. I use my bluetooth headset from my Aino, so to me it's not a problem, but I can certainly understand why others complain about this.

The audio-volume in video recordings is way way too low. (How on earth can SE make shit like that??). However, since I mostly record stuff to be burned to DVD, I need to use an editing software anyway, and then it's no trouble putting on an Audio-Normalize effect to correct audio.

Still getting to know the device, but so far it looks much better than expected. Even the resistive screen responds better than expected (but I still hate touch).

But where are the good sources for Symbian S60v5 software? (And I mean software that'll actually install and run without problems). So far it seems Java stuff is the better choice.
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Posted: 2010-11-06 17:21:20
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i suggest registering on ipmart forum. it has tons of software available for s60v5. for signing get a certificate from opda.cn. is a little hard to find everything you want at the begining, but after a mounth or two you will know all there is to know about symbian.
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Posted: 2010-12-16 09:16:04
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Symbian is a dead end, in my opinion you made a big mistake getting it. I made a big mistake a year ago when I bought the Satio as well.


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Posted: 2010-12-17 05:39:57
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vivaz has no flash so none runner from the word go regardless of anything else
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Posted: 2010-12-17 07:56:39
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