Sony Ericsson Satio, Aino, Yari launched in India
Sony Ericsson launched three of its latest phones in India, the Satio, Aino and Yari, on October 28, 2009.
Sony Ericsson Satio
The Sony Ericsson Satio, that was recently launched in the UK via Vodafone, has a 3.5-inch TFT touch screen with a resolution of 360×640 pixels. The Satio is somewhat chunky due to all the extra camera gadgetry added to it at the back, but the Indian buyer is not likely to mind. The touchscreen is resistive, not capacitative – so someone who is used to an iPhone may not totally love it.
Photo: Sony Ericsson Satio in silver
The Satio is the first phone from Sony Ericsson to run the Symbian S60 5th edition operating system. Symbian is an operating system created by Nokia, the mobile phone manufacturer.
The Sony Ericsson Satio comes with a whopping 12.1-mega pixel (MP) camera with digital zoom up to 16X, geo tagging, smile shutter, autofocus, Xenon and LED flash, and video recording. This probably makes the Satio’s camera one of the highest resolution mobile phone cams going around.
The dimensions of the phone, that weighs 126 grams, are 112.0 x 55.0 x 13.0 mm.
Connectivity features of the Sony Ericsson Satio are integrated WiFi, with specifications of 802.11 b/g, DLNA, PictBridge, USB support, Bluetooth, aGPS, and Google Maps.
Photo: Sony Ericsson Satio back view
The phone comes with FM radio, has an internal memory of 128MB, and SanDisk microSD memory card support expandable to 32GB.
The phone works on the GSM/GPRS/EDGE network at 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and UMTS/HSPA network at 900/2100 MHz.
The Sony Ericsson Satio comes with a standard Li-Po 1000 mAh battery with the following specs:
Stand-by time: Up to 360 h (2G) / Up to 340 h (3G)
Talk time: Up to11 h (2G) / Up to 4 h 50 min (3G)
The phone that comes in three colors – Black, Silver, and Bordeaux – will be available in India at a price of Rs 35,950. At that price, the Satio definitely has top-end Blackberry phones and the iPhone as competition.
Sony Ericsson Aino
The Sony Ericsson Aino comes with a 3-inch touch screen in two colors, Obsidian Black and Luminous White.
Photo: Sony Ericsson Aino
The phone has a 8.1-mega pixel camera that comes with up to 16x digital zoom, touch focus, face detection, geotagging, photo feeds, video recording, photo flash, send to web, and smart contrast.
The USP of the Sony Ericcson Aino is that it enables users to access content stored on their PlayStation 3 from a remote location using a WiFi connection.
Another feature of the Sony Ericsson Aino is the Media Home app that allows users to access media content from their PCs to their phones via Wi-Fi.
The Aino works on GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS/HSPA 850/1900/2100 networks.
Connectivity features of the Sony Ericsson Aino are A-GPS, DLNA, PictBridge, Bluetooth, Google Maps, USB mass storage, USB support, and WiFi.
The phone comes with an onboard memory of up to 55MB and an 8GB SanDisk microSD card.
The Sony Ericsson Aino comes with a standard Li-Po 1000 mAh battery with the following specifications:
Stand by time: Up to 380 h (2G) / Up to 367 h (3G)
Talk time: Up to 13 h (2G) / Up to 4 h 30 min (3G)
Music listening time: Up to 31 h
The Sony Ericsson Aino will be available in the Indian market at a price of Rs 28,950.
Sony Ericsson Yari
The Yari is a gaming focused phone from Sony Ericsson. The phone comes with a new Gesture gaming feature that allows users to plays games by just moving their bodies. With this feature, users do need to use buttons or touch the phone.
Photo: Sony Ericsson Yari phone
Users can also access games from their computers using a gaming carousel.
The Sony Ericsson Yari has a 2.4-inch TFT touch screen with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels.
The phone comes with a 5-megapixel camera with up to 4x digital zoom, auto focus, geotagging, send to web, smile detection, face detection, photo feeds, photo fix, video light, and video recording.
Connectivity features include Bluetooth, Google Maps, A-GPS, DNLA, PictBridge, USB mass storage, and USB support.
The phone comes with an internal memory of 60MB and a SanDisk microSD support.
The Yari runs on GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS/HSDPA 900/2100.
The Sony Ericsson Yari has a standard Li-Po 1000 mAh battery with the following specifications:
Stand-by time: Up to 450 h (2G) / Up to 450 h (3G)
Talk time: Up to 10 h (2G) / Up to 4 h 30 min (3G)
The phone will be available in two colors, Achromatic Black and Cranberry White, at a price of Rs.16,950.