The Hot Trio From Sony – Aino, Satio & Yari

June 6, 2009

May was an eventful month for mobile industry as all top mobile makers were busy announcing their latest releases. Sony Ericsson has unleashed the hot triplet to mark its position in the mobile phone industry. At a glance, one can easily notice that all the three phones are quite different from each other and comes with versatile features.

Sony Ericsson Satio Mobile Phone

Sony Ericsson Satio 12MP Camera Mobile Phone, popularly known as Idouis the much anticipated model among the threesome!!! It is the 12MP monster let loose to haunt the photo-maniacs!!! It comes with the best features of both Cybershot and Walkman series, and is labelled as “Entertainment Unlimited” Series. It is Sony’s maiden venture to produce a handset with “i-phone form factor”. Fully touch-sensitive, this device comes with a 3.5” 16:9 display that has a display resolution of 640 x 360 pixels. Moreover this hand-held device sports almost all trendy features like Wi-Fi, 3G, HSDPA, GPS, bluetooth with A2DP compatibility and TV-Out.

Geotagging is possible in this mobile phone, which makes it quite useful for social network users. The major highlight of this mobile phone is the 12MP camera, and comes with powerful xenon flash too to render high quality pics even in darker ambiance. Autofocus and 12 x digital zoom are added advantages of this handset. With 128MB internal memory, the memory can be expanded liberally to store copious amount of digital data as per the user’s preference. Web-kit based browser, FM Radio, aGPS functionalities, Wi-Fi, Symbian S60 5th Edition OS, Bluetooth, etc. are some other key features to be taken into account. On-screen Virtual QWERTY keyboard is another speciality of this phone. With 112 x 55 x 13.3mm, and 126 grams, Satio is having same size and weight as that of Apple iphone 3G; yet another iphone killer!!!

Sony Ericsson Aino Mobile Phone

Sony Ericsson Aino 8MP Camera Mobile Phone is one of the best phones in this trinity, only next to the flagship Idou!!! It is mainly aPlayStation Mobile that comes with Remote Play that helps you to control the PS3 and also to access the media content via aino mobile phone. It is a slider phone and comes with interesting network connection features like GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS/HSPA 850/1900/2100 connectivity. The numeric keypad clings closely to the upper plate so neatly to make the phone quite handy to use. It comes with a liberal 3” touchscreen display of 240 x 432 pixels resolution, and it is touch-sensitive only while doing multimedia applications.

The screen is touch-sensitive while using camera as well. This mobile phone comes with 8.1MP camera, and is well integrated with most of the social networks. Wireless headphones and a matching designer docking cradle are the added advantages of this handset. Bluetooth, 8GB microSD cards, etc. are other features of this smartie. It comes with the dimensions of 104 x 50 x 15.5mm and is quite heavy; 134grams to be precise.

Sony Ericsson Yari Mobile Phone

Sony Ericsson Yari 5MP Camera Mobile Phone is basically a gaming phone that makes use of gesture and motion controls instead of the conventional hardware buttons. In this game-centric phone, accelerometer is used for Wii/iPhone-esque controls. It is slightly disappointing that there is no touchscreen in this smart gizmo. With 2.4” QVGA display, this is a smartie with aGPS, bluetooth, 1GB microSD card and even a docking cradle! It is reported that two variants of Yari will be available; one with the GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS/HSUPA 900/2100 compatibility, and the latter with 3G compatibility from AT&T. Just like its siblings Yari is expected to greet the market by the last quarter of 2009, and comes in two different colours; cranberry white and achromatic black. It measures about 100 x 48 x 15.7mm and is slightly heavy with 115gms.

The plus of all the three devices are the inclusion of MicroSD cards and more innovative range of products. However the 3.5mm headphone jack is not yet introduced in any of the three models, and Sony is still continuing with the proprietary charging port.