Sony Ericsson Satio Cell Phone

Sony Ericsson are launching the Satio which is a 12.1 megapixel camera phone. It is powered by the Symbian OS S60 5th edition that can be found in phones such as the Nokia 5800 and the N97.

The phone itself is just 13mm thick and weighs 126 grams. As the Satio has such a large megapixel camera built in the lens cover bulges out slightly that kind of takes away a little from the quite small frame that houses the rest of the camera.

The Satio also excels in both the camera and in music. The 12.1 megapixel sensor has a nice lens to work with along with a xenon flash and video light which helps provide decent pictures in low light situations. As with the Aino, the Satio also has smile detection, face detection and touch focus. What touch focus does is allows you to tap the screen at the point where you want it to focus and then the camera focuses on that particular spot. Other camera features include 12x digital zoom and image stabilisation.

The display on the Satio measures 3.5″ and is a TFT screen with a resolution of 360 x 640 pixels. The screen is also touchscreen (resistive) and can display 16 million colours. A stylus is included with the phone but rather than storing it in the phone, it is attached on a lanyard. The symbian S60 5th edition is finger friendly so using the stylus is not mandatory like it would be for an older Windows Mobile OS for example. An onscreen portrait or landscape QWERTY keyboard is also provided as well as an onscreen number pad for making calls.

Connectivity wise the phone is 3G with HSDPA and HSUPA support. As can be expected, the phone also has Wi-Fi, A2DP, Bluetooth and aGPS that has pretty much become a standard on most phones these days.

An interesting move on this phone see’s the memory stick slot dumped in favour of the more popular microSD card format which is a step in the right direction. However, they unfortunately don’t use the standard 3.5mm headphone jack on this phone so you’ll need to use the specific headphone on this phone.

The Satio looks to be ideal for anyone wanting a good music experience along with a fantastic 12.1 megapixel camera.

great phone just as described in auction
exactly what i wanted
fantastic camera
hopefully wont need to change this for a long time now
many thanks

tracey winter

Love the phone, has everything you would need and easy to use. Can be a bit confusing at times but it's the easiest touch screen I've used yet, and I'm not generally a fan of them!

When i first got this phone one of the main reasons i bought it was because of the camera but i was a bit unsure of how good it would be.But when i went out (feeding the ducks with the grandkids) i soon realised how good it actually was.But when i got them onto my p.c i was abs amazed.So wat if it hasn't got an optical zoom using very basic photo software the quality and the detail in the pics was abs amazing i couldn't fault them.
The other features on the phone are if yr used to sony ericsson's was very easy and with wifi built in was great for surfin the web and receiving e-mails.
there are also loads of apps for this phone available on a few sites and most are free if u use the wifi!
anyway to sum it up the satio phone is the best camera phone by a mile and has some great features and i highly rec it.

Easy to use text or phone calls no problems slightly smaller than the Nokia N97 with out the slide for qwerty board, but qwerty can be put on screan.

perfect camera......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................