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Sony Ericsson officially announces Aino, Yari and Satio, previously code name as “Idou”. The first of the devices, Aino is a new Entertainment Unlimited series and features an 8 MP autofocus camera with LED flash and the usual SE camera features like Touch focus, image stabilizer, smart contrast, red-eye reduction, BestPic, geo-tagging, face detection, etc. It will also have 3″ capacitive touchscreen 16 million colour display of WQVGA (432 x 240 pixels) resolution with limited touchscreen functionality. The limited touchscreen functionality means it is only active when in media player mode or camera mode (e.g. for touch focus). Aino has a slide out keypad for input when not in touchscreen mode. The selling point features of Aino is the PS3 Remote Play service, enable users to download or stream content of PS3 from their phone from anywhere in the world. The second device is Yari, the ultimate phone for mobile fun has a 5 MP cameraphone which feature the first Sony Ericsson handset with the Walkman 4 player. The handset looks set to be marketed as a ‘fun’ and/or ‘gaming’ handset with its motion and gesture control and it’s media applications like SenseMe. Now this is the big one, the third handset is Satio. It is their first Symbian S60 based device, plus it carriers a whopping 12 MP camera along with a touch-sensitive display and all other good things.

Aino

* Connectivity: Quad-band GPRS/EDGE, tri-band HSDPA, Bluetooth (A2DP), Wi-Fi DLNA
* Display: 16 million colour TFT capacitive touchscreen, 240×432, 3 inches
* Memory: 55 Mb internal, supports up to 16 Gb MicroSD, 8 Gb included
* Battery: 380h standby (2G), 367h standby (3G) 13h talktime (2G), 4.5h talktime (3G) 31h music play
* Camera: 8.1 MP, AF, LED flash, geo-tagging, face detection, touch focus, smart contrast QVGA video recording @ 30fps
* Features: FM radio with RDS, TrackID, Youtube/Facebook apps, SenseMe, Shake Control, media player, Google maps, Remote Play for PS3

Yari

* Connectivity: Quad-band GPRS/EDGE, tri-band HSDPA, Bluetooth (A2DP)
* Display: 256k colour TFT, 240×320, 2.4 inches
* Memory: 60 Mb internal, supports up to 16 Gb MicroSD
* Battery: 450h standby, 10h talktime (2G), 4.5h talktime (3G)
* Camera: 5 MP, AF, LED flash, geo-tagging, face detection, QVGA video recording @ 30fps
* Features: FM radio with RDS, TrackID, Youtube/Facebook apps, SenseMe, Shake Control, media player

Satio (Idou)

* Connectivity: Quad-band GPRS/EDGE, tri-band HSDPA, Bluetooth (A2DP), Wi-Fi DLNA
* Display: 16 million colour TFT touchscreen, 360×640, 3.5 inches
* Memory: 128 Mb internal, supports up to 16 Gb MicroSD, 8 Gb included
* Camera: 12.1 MP, AF, xenon flash, geo-tagging, face & smile detection, touch focus
* Features: Symbian S60 5th edition OS, FM radio with RDS, TrackID, Youtube/Facebook apps, SenseMe, Shake Control, media player, Google maps

The Satio’s user interface is running nice and smooth like the iPhone or even better.

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Sony Ericsson Aino, Yari and Satio promo videos
Video: Sony Ericsson Aino Preview
Video: Sony Ericsson Satio Preview