Sony Ericsson Satio and Vivaz finally get a music equalizer

17 March, 2010
The Sony Ericsson Satio and the recently released Vivaz both lack a nice modern convenience - a music equalizer. A team of SE developers have come up with a fix today - and it's a rather strange fix....

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  • Anonymous
  • mqY
  • 19 Mar 2010

Adam, 18 Mar 2010Note that with the equalizer in Satio and Vivaz all multime... moreAdam, that is very good point and thank you for pointing it out.

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    • Anonymous
    • UD}
    • 19 Mar 2010

    Anonymous, 18 Mar 2010I thought vivaz is aiming at people who likes to take photo... moreThat's the problem. Since Vivaz is not a music phone, it can't have as simple as an equalizer. I'll ask you: Why is that my c510 (touted as a Cybershot phone) has a preset and MANUAL equalizer if you said only music phones can have that feature?

    Though SE already sort of fixed the equalizer issue, i sure would love to see a manual equalizer.

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      • Anonymous
      • 32x
      • 18 Mar 2010

      I thought vivaz is aiming at people who likes to take photos and vids, because it is a camera phone! If you want a music phone, go and get yourself a w995 or x2.
      se adding equalizer on satio and vivaz (camera phones) is a bonus! be thankful.

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        • Adam
        • m}R
        • 18 Mar 2010

        Anonymous, 18 Mar 2010WTF. I thought it was a good news. I am planning to buy VIV... moreNote that with the equalizer in Satio and Vivaz all multimedia audio can be equalized. Not only for audio played from the single pre installed media application, but also from applications installed by the user! For instance, audio played from streaming applications/services such as Spotify!!!

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          • aricomambo
          • v3D
          • 18 Mar 2010

          too many SE bashers in here.
          If you love your phone why dont u post all love your love on your phones page here in gsm arena.
          You are so unhappy of your phone you get so jealous with SE Satio and VIVAZ owners.
          Well, I also have to thank u somehow u make this SE related articles popular it attracts more attention and potential buyers.
          SE phones like all other phones are not perfect but at least they try to correct their mistakes and release upgrades for free unlike other phones out there =P

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            • u0w
            • 18 Mar 2010

            Hello . Pls help solve s.bl with my satio , I has update my video record to WVGA , but now my phone can record well like when i'm not update !

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              • mbassler
              • PwN
              • 18 Mar 2010

              Pure nonsense! Why didn't Sony include it in the last mayor Firmware update and as a function inside the music player? I own a Satio since 4 months and am quite disappointed...to much money spent for a bad aftersales serviced highend phone....

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                • Anonymous
                • M8T
                • 18 Mar 2010

                imac, 18 Mar 2010i know iphone isn't the first touchscreen phone nokia hat i... moreIf you know your Iphone history you would have known that Apple had to pay LG 1.2 billion dollars in court when the first iPhone came out. LG sued Apple for using LG technology from the LG KE850 or also known as LG Prada, like widgets, screen etc, which by the way was the first massmarket touchscreen.

                China was making touchscreen phones before Steve Jobs even learn to poke his nose. I remember having a pretty good touchscreen phone in 2004 from China, with 1.3 mp camera, flash, finger gesture, walkman player, divx support media player, web browser, bluetooth etc etc.

                So your nonsense is not gonna work..

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                  • ib6
                  • 18 Mar 2010

                  Dudessssss, whats wrong wid u guys, the 1st ever colored touch screen phones were the Sony Ericsson P series and they were all like the biggest sellers ever, the 1st uncolored phones were the Windows Mobile 1-3-4. So if u talk who initiated the whole touch screen technology on phones; its definitely windows. Who initiated the colored touch screen thing, its Sony Ericsson, then apple came along with the whole finger touch screen thing. Keep some general knowledge before starting to argue over nthng

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                    • Kenx
                    • kh8
                    • 18 Mar 2010

                    Vivaz is already available in most country in APAC, GSMArena, u seriously need to check your source.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • PAq
                      • 18 Mar 2010

                      imac, 18 Mar 2010say what you need to say....iphone sucks,iphone is old scho... moreSymbian UIQ touch screen phone exist before iPhone. Walkman exist before iPod. So you still want to say, everything wouldn't exist without Apple? LOL. Jokes of the year.

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                        • exuser
                        • t7X
                        • 18 Mar 2010

                        everything is butt marketing strategies!!! it's not worth the money you worked hard for!!!

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                          • imac
                          • fu$
                          • 18 Mar 2010

                          Venom, 18 Mar 2010i don't think you're right did you know UIQ 1.0 was first ... morei know iphone isn't the first touchscreen phone nokia hat its 7710 but it was hardly sold in the market there were a couple of windows mobile phones too but all of them were aimed at business class thanks to iphone touchscreen came to music and multimedia phones and made the market so competitive to the extent that nokia and samsung started to make very cheap and good touchscreen phones look at the 5800 or the samsung star these were directly aimed at killing the iphone's sales

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                            • Venom
                            • sr$
                            • 18 Mar 2010

                            imac, 18 Mar 2010say what you need to say....iphone sucks,iphone is old scho... morei don't think you're right
                            did you know UIQ 1.0 was first symbian OS and it was touchscreen and was used and made by Ericsson and then by Sony Ericsson and some other brands
                            History of UIQ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UIQ_Technology#History
                            One of first UIQ phones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson_R380
                            http://www.gsmarena.com/ericsson_r380-195.php

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                              • Anonymous
                              • Mx@
                              • 18 Mar 2010

                              Dear GsmArena, just to let you know the vivaz is already available in stores has been for about two weeks. hope this helps your facts

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                                • numaan225
                                • tt1
                                • 18 Mar 2010

                                hi guys i know iphone lacks many things which we get in an norma phone but if i am sure it the only phone in market which has best music player and output (in headphones) you can compare it to n97 or ever satio you will come to know i have compared to all these phone sure iphone has the best music out i know many will not be trust me but check out for your self and you will come to know

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • ibe
                                  • 18 Mar 2010

                                  hello.. touchscreen is in the mobile industry much early even before iphone was born.

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                                    • imac
                                    • fu$
                                    • 18 Mar 2010

                                    say what you need to say....iphone sucks,iphone is old school no 12mp camera no office app.....but the facts remains the same the iphone brought revolution to the mobile industry without iphone i doubt if we would be having symbian touch version or blackberry storm,android phones like the nexus one all these were made so as to compete with the iphone or as we call them iphone wanna be....the only touch os that existed was windows mobile and at that time most of the phones were categorized as business class and it was apple's innovation that brought touch screens to the multimedia market and they made the best user interface which has ruled the world for more than 5 years now i know you n97 and vivaz and satio users wish you could have that lovely easy to use interface....my advice is stop to whine and moan how iphone sucks and just appreciate at what iphone did to this mobile industry

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • M8T
                                      • 18 Mar 2010

                                      Anonymous, 17 Mar 2010You'r one of the 135000. http://blog.gsmarena.com/poor-nexu... moreYeah, isn't sad that the world is filled with so many teenage wannabe trendy guys, 14 year girls and posh women with chihuahuas?

                                      Since when do sales numbers make a good phone? So you saying the Nokia 1100 basic is the best phone cause it sold over 300 million units?

                                      If you base phone quality on sales than iPhone is like tenth place or something.

                                      Google Nexus One is just now reaching stores and contracts, the initial launch has been direct order from Google so far.

                                      Read the end of your own link, it says Nexus one is still a great phone. And ever comparison review you can find on the web and on youtube the Nexus One beats the living daylights out of the iphone.

                                      Outdated screen and resolution, ancient camera from 2005, extremely poor battery life and no battery change, bad call quality, no micro-sd slot, phone gets hot when using, gets "white screen" slow between menus when you start filling up memory, no multitasking, poorly constructed third party apps, no freedom with the extreme hassle of being balled and chained to irritating Itunes software for everything u need to do etc etc...

                                      You kidding me! iPhone is the worst piece of nonsense to ever pull a fast one over the iApples and Mactards of the world..

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                                        • Passerby
                                        • F4m
                                        • 18 Mar 2010

                                        You guys really think iphone that wonderful it all just about games and music it a 'kiddy phone' can't even match a business phone or daily usage person.. Memory to act as a thumbdrive surely help and sound quality only iphone store their memory with jus video and music sure it run fast no tasking no nothing.. It just show that iphones are quite unfriendly to use..