The Sony Ericsson Satio (renamed idou) is in the timeless classic colors: deep red, black and silver, which makes the Sony Ericsson Satio looks a little flagship style.
The biggest feature for the Sony Ericsson Satio’s design is the camera which is at the back of the Sony Ericsson Satio. This slide out lens-cover of the camera looks very professional and feels good. The “12.1 Megapixel” is printed on the slide out lens-cover. While there is a drawback for this big slide out lens-cover, when you put the phone on the pocket, it will automatically activate the camera when the lens cover is opened.
The Sony Ericsson Satio features a 3.5 inches touschreen with a 16:9 widescreen display, its resolution is 640 x 360 pixels available of more than 16 million colours. However, the touchscreen is based on the resistive technology rather than capacitive.
There are some professional buttons on the both side of the Sony Ericsson Satio, on the right side of the Sony Ericsson Satio, there are picture / video capture switch key, playback key, and the volume key which can be used as the zoom key too.
On the left side of the the Sony Ericsson Satio, there are interfaces: keylock switch, microSD memory card slot, while this card slot is still the Fastport data interface which used just on the Sony instead of the standard miniUSB or microUSB slot. What a pity!
On the top of the Sony Ericsson Satio, there are the speaker and power button.
Above the Sony Ericsson Satio’s screen, there are the front camera, distance sensor and the light sensor.
At the bottom, there are three buttons which is familiar to the buttons of the Nokia 5800: calls accept, cancel and a menu button.
Compared with similar models such as Nokia N97, Samsung i8910, the Sony Ericsson Satio is poor in its battery life. The Sony Ericsson Satio comes with a 1000 mA battery. The battery should be charged everyday with 20 messages, 30 minutes talking time, as well as other Internet access, music players and other operations.
The Sony Ericsson Satio is the best camera phone one the market with lots of strong features. The Sony Ericsson Satio is proud for its camera; it comes with a 12 MP camera with dual LED flash, Xenon flash (which is the best type of the camera phones) and auto-focus. As adding the Xenon flash as well as LED flash, we can take photos at night, the Xenon flash can take a very clear picture while the background is still very visible at night.
The camera has the function of face detection, it can lock onto a face and focuses automatically on it. The camera will not take photos until you smile when you activate the smile detection.
The Satio uses the Symbian S60 mobile operating system, the same as the Nokia N97. What’s more, the Sony Ericsson Satio also supports Windows Mobile operating system.
Sony Ericsson Satio is coming with the same S60 touch interface as the Nokia N97, but it is still different on the function of the interface, and the standby interface is unique too. On the default standby interface of the Sony Ericsson Satio, there are five different touch interfaces on the top of the screen, which is the most unique, from the left to the right, they are common contact, the network favorites, the main interface, picture browsing, and the Quick Launch bars; the following is music shortcut bar, and at the bottom of the screen, they are call, multimedia, message and search shortcut bars. To some extent, it is similar to the Dopod SENSE interface.
Sony Ericsson Walkman music phones are world famous; actually, this interface is added to the Sony Ericsson Satio. So you can expect the Sony Ericsson Satio is a Walkman music phone, with it, the player can also be controlled directly from the home screen. Moreover, the built-in music player supports records management and album cover management function and so on. Well, the player doesn’t support the alternative visualization, as well as the DivX and Xvid video formats.
Sony Ericsson Satio supports the GPS navigation, which is a necessary function for the high-end mobile phones. There is a built-in Wisepilot software as well as Google Mobile Map; we can identify the location in 10 seconds with the assistance of A-GPS network.
There are also many software applications for the Sony Ericsson Satio such as dictionary, data backup, QuickOffice, PDF reader, etc.
