Sony Ericsson Live View, my thoughts

I ordered a Sony Ericsson live way back in November, and I was excited to use it in conjunction with my X10 mini-pro, however things didn't get off to a great start, let me explain ...........

After receiving it and un-boxing and charging an things, I started using it, but my first impression wasn't a good one, my live view had absolutely terrible battery life. I could only get about 2-3 hours from it, regardless of set-up or even use. I had installed some plug-ins from the market place, and I removed all of these and stripped it down to it's basic functions but still no good. So I packaged it back up and returned it, a combination of snow and Christmas post meant that I have only had the new unit for a couple of days, and I wanted to make sure this was a good one.




I'm pleased to say the new live view is much better, although strangely it's not a UK model. When I received it in the post, it came complete with a mains adapter to go with the 2 pin wall plug supplied in the box. This has left me wondering if there UK models have the battery issue that I was experiencing, and so an international model was sent instead.

So, how is it, I hear you ask, well let me tell you ..

I use the live view as my watch, I guess most people will, and it's pretty useful, comfortable to wear even with the supplied strap. It is a little bit thicker then a standard watch, but hey, a standard watch doesn't let you read text messages.





Day to day use of the live view is very easy, there is the occasional bluetooth issue, annoyingly this seems to present itself just after I'm asked "what's that thing on you wrist" to which I reply "oh this, well let me show you" and then as I'm about to show my James bond style ability to read messages from my watch, I get the screen that indicates a loss of connection! Rather embarrassing I'm sure you will agree.

That aside, it works very very well, using it at work where I can't always have my phone to hand, it's immensely useful for notifying me of new message sand emails, the subtle vibration is enough to alert me to new messages.

The screen works really well, and the touch screen responsiveness works great for flicking through the menus.

There are a few niggles, the random loss of connection is puzzling, especially as I can leave me phone in my living room at home and easily walk all through downstairs and stay connected, and yet it will randomly decide to just loose all connection.

To sum up my thoughts, I like the live view, it's cool, and works on the whole pretty well, there are bugs and it's not a perfect relationship between my mini pro and live view, but hopefully Sony Ericsson will continue to refine the firmware on the live view.

On the whole I can recommend the live view, it's useful, well made, and a cool gadget, and after 48 hours without a charge and 2 full days of use, the battery had just moved from full, very impressive, if you have a compatible device, then get one, I think you will like it




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