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Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro – Making The Best Even Better

The full QWERTY form factor, be they sliders or Blackberry type candybars, seems to be the de facto standard for serious smartphones pitched to businessmen and executives,.

It's interesting to note that Sony Ericsson smartphones have shied away from such  phones with only the Xperia X2 running on Windows as its first ever QWERTY slider.  That is about to change this year.

At the recently concluded Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Japanese phone maverick unveiled a couple more – the Xperia X10 Mini Pro in tandem with a touchscreen X10 Mini and the Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro to team up with the Vivaz touchscreen unveiled last January.  It also looks like Sony is starting a tradition to affix "pro" on similar handsets that it modifies with a sliding QWERTY keyboard half shell

The Vivaz Pro is everything the Vivaz is with the disappointing exception of the imaging function that got watered-down from a gorgeous 8 megapixel resolution in the Vivaz to just 5megapxiels in the Pro. But apart from that, and a slightly wider, heftier and thicker body due to the QWERTY body half, the Vivaz brings the same high end Symbian S60 5th edition smartphone to a market that Sony Ericsson thinks would have looked elsewhere for a tactile side-sliding QWERTY smartphone.

Outstanding Hardware Features

Both Vivaz and its Pro variant use the PowerVR Series 5 SGX graphics engine that the earlier Satio used but clocked at 720 MHz instead of 600 MHz.  This allows both to process high definition 720p video recording with video light and continuous autofocus. HD video playback is a bit compromised though with the absence of DivX and Xvid video file codec support, but there's nothing that a downloaded 3rd party app can't solve.

As indicated above, imaging in the Pro is more modest 5 megapixel resolution but you still get the same autofocus and touchfocus camera with LED Flash, face and smile detection and geo-tagging. Your gorgeous images and videos captured on the Vivaz Pro gets displayed on a brilliant 3.2-inch Wide-VGA resistive touchscreen with 16 million colors that gets protected by a scratch-resistant surface. There's the usual gravity accelerometer but a proximity sensor meant to disable touchscreen sensitivity in a call is missing.

Elsewhere on the hardware front, the new Vivaz Pro is your basic 3G smartphone on the dual band UMTS with the HSDPA at 10.2 Mbps and HSUPA at 2 Mbps. It's also your quad band GSM with GPRS/EDGE on 2/2.5G data connectivity.  It comes with WiFi 802.11b/g with DLNA, Bluetooth 2.1 and microUSB 2.0 for wireless and wired data synching, respectively.

You get a built-in A-GPS and stereo FM receivers, Bluetooth A2DP, 3.5mm headphone jack and TV-out (VGA resolution) ports.  The phone memory is 75 MB expandable to 16 GB from its microSD slot and you get a 9 GB microSD card free with the retail kit. Talk time is a remarkable 12.5 hours and standby is 18 days from the same 1200 mAh Lithium-polymer battery powering the earlier Vivaz touchscreen.

Matching Software Features

The Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro comes bundled with Google Map 3.0 for its A-GPS receiver and Wisepilot turn-by-turn navigation apps. It comes with the SNS apps fro Facebook, Twitter as well as YouTube for online video sharing.  There's the usual PDF and Quick Office document viewer, WebKit HTML web browser with Java and Flash video support and the messaging apps like your typical email client and IM support.  PlayNow online access to apps, music and games is also supported.

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How can I tell if I have Snow Leopard on my MacBook Pro?

I've been digging through my new MBP and I can't find out whether I have Snow Leopard or Leopard!!!!! Is there any way to tell? I've tried looking in the 'About my Mac' Thing, but nothing! Any help?

You were on the right track.

In the upper left of your menu bar, click the apple icon, then click on "About this mac". The resulting window holds the info you want.

Right under "Mac OS X" there is the version. It will say: "version 10.x.x", if it is 10.6 or above it is snow leopard, less than 10.6 then it is not snow leopard.

Here is a site with all the names for each version:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X#Mac_OS_X_v10.0_.22Cheetah.22

Hope this helps.

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