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Sony Ericssson has just unveiled a new smartphone with full touch screen features – the Sony Ericsson Vivaz. This phone is officially the second unit to be released under Sony Ericsson’s new family of communication entertainment phones, with the Xperia series as the first model. To be released anytime this first quarter, the Sony Ericsson Vivaz features high quality HD video playback.

The Sony Ericsson Vivaz is a full featured smartphone with great features such as a high resolution camera that lets you capture video in HD quality. It has a dedicated video key that lets you shoot video quickly with continous auto focus. Read more…

We’d have guessed that the X2′s lukewarm reception would’ve doomed Sony Ericsson’s barely-there WinMo strategy — especially since they’ve also got Android and Symbian to worry about — but here we’ve got the first images of what’s said to be the “Faith” running 6.5.3. Apparently part of the eco-friendly GreenHeart range, the portrait QWERTY set would represent distinctly new territory for the company if it actually makes it to market (a good deal of leaked Sony Ericssons don’t) and would seem to suggest a renewed interest in working with Microsoft going forward — possibly to get in on this  WinMo 7  action everyone’s talking about these days. The Faith has a 2.4-inch QVGA display, Euro 3G, and an honest-to-goodness touchscreen above the keyboard, giving it access to 6.5.3′s headlining feature — finger-friendly controls. We’d just as soon see these guys hold off for 7 and focus on Android in the meanwhile, but hey, who knows — maybe there’s some massive, untapped interest in a product like this after all.

The Sony Ericsson Kanna U8i is a side-slider with a touchscreen and a QWERTY keyboard. It is expected to feature an 8.1-megapixel camera with HD video recording capabilities.

Sony Ericsson Kanna U8i specifications

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