The Sony Ericsson Vivaz (previously known as “Kurara”) still doesn’t have an official release date, but it looks like someone in Sony Ericsson’s camp has been playing with one lately. The company just released a pair of sample videos, marking the first time anyone outside of SE has seen footage shot on this handset. Now, given that one of the flagship features of this handset is its 720p video recording mode, we didn’t exactly expect the camera quality to be garbage – but hot damn are these videos impressive.
Check out the videos below, won’t you?
The first video alone is pretty impressive, even if they are kind of cheating; if those E-Trade commercials and countless viral videos have proven anything, it’s that babies make everything better.
That second video, though, of the rock concert… that’s amazing. As every 15 year old girl standing in the front row at a concert blocking everyone’s view with their stupid cell phone could tell you, concert footage tends to come out looking like a pile of hot garbage. The lighting goes from ridiculously dark to blindingly bright, the music is too loud.. it’s just a terrible combination. Now, I’m not sure if there’s some sort of pre-staged (or post-shoot) trickery going on here – but if that’s impromptu footage straight off the phone, consider me impressed. Really, really impressed.
[Via AllAboutSymbian]
woohoo, you know what also shoots 720p video? my Droid with Qik
Wanna fucking cookie? It’s ok, you’re good too bro. I mean, you’re phone is. It’s pretty clear you are a douche.
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I cranked up the volume to hear the kid speak and then…played the second video with the same volume.
My headphones survived but not my ears.
The videos are amazing.
Word: Vivaz, Language: Spanish. Meaning: lively, vivacious, perennial” — Now that’s the reason for the vid :D
Sony Ericsson Vivaz runs on the Symbian S60 platform and packs an 8 megapixel autofocus camera capable of recording 720p video.The CPU inside the human curvature-inspired body clocks at 720 MHz. Details: http://bit.ly/sony-ericsson-vivaz-details
At that price, Symbian S60 OS isn’t “ignorable”.
Sorry Sony Ericsson, I still love your phones, but you’re too far behind these days…
the rock concert is staged. ask them who was playing and when.
no crowd waves their hands so perfectly. also, did you notice how not sweaty the hair of any of the audience members were.
Zoom and enhance!
The band looks like Wolfmother, and that’s their song, “Joker and the Thief”.
Video info says it was a concert in Copenhagen. According to Google, Wolfmother played in Copenhagen on Feb 2nd, the night before this video was uploaded.
The video from the rock concert….GREAT…I have sony erricsson I think these phones have the best optics for making quality pics…..but this video….again: GREAT!!!
The Vivaz is no doubt a good item for showing what Sony Ericsson does best: great video and photo capture along with a user-friendly media playback interface, not mentioning being a world’s first with its nice continuous auto-focus 720 pixel video recording…