The Sony Ericsson Vivaz has arrived for review, enabling me to start testing its unique HD autofocus camera. See below for an embedded version of my test footage, plus a little sunlight video taken in London by Sony Ericsson a few days ago. The good news: the video is excellent, the autofocus quick and silent; the bad news: audio's a little on the quiet side. Still, pretty astounding for such a small camera unit in such a small smartphone. See below.

Click on the '360' button and change it to '720', if your bandwidth is up to it, for highest quality.

This video may seem 'wide', but the full footage is at 1280 pixel width, of course, 200MB for a couple of minutes of footage. Astonishing. But too large to start handing out the MP4 file, even with Rafe's capable servers, I think.

The big question is why other manufacturers haven't managed to match this performance, if it's so (apparently) easy to do.

The Vivaz itself is really quite special - you have to hold it to appreciate its small size. Over the next week or so I'll be putting it through its paces and delivering an official All About Symbian review.

Steve Litchfield