Sony Ericsson Aino Review |Specs | Price

Sony Ericsson Aino

AINO is an innovative mobile phone that combines the traditional keyboard touch interface for easy access to multimedia content, and with one push, the user can enjoy music, videos and photographs, seen on the screen high-quality 3 “. AINO is able to connect remotely via WiFi or 3G access to the Playstation 3 and so on streaming all content in the Playstation, from movies to music and photos.

• The best of both worlds: traditional keypad interface combined with intuitive touch UI
• Media Home and Media Gotmar – to bring your content with you
• Remote Play with PLAYSTATION ® 3 – to control and access to multimedia content from your PLAYSTATION ® 3 Cell Screen 3 with 16 million colors
• surf the web in widescreen
• Clear audio experience – listening to music in high quality
• MH100 Stereo Headset wirelessly and Charging Stand EC100

Verdict

Pros:	TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors 8.1 MP Camera,8GB Memory included, connect remotely via WiFi or 3G access to the Playstation 3
Cons:	Touchscreen fires Only In Media Mode.
Outline	Large Interface Touchscreen with a 8 Megapixel Camera Surely makes it a must buy for Sony Ericsson Lovers.

Sony Ericsson Aino Specs:-

2GNetwork---------->GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3GNetwork---------->HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100

Available------------>Released 2009, October

OS------------------->Sony Ericsson
Dimensions-------->104 x 50 x 15.5 mm

Weight-------------->134 g
Display-------------->TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size----------------->240 x 432 pixels, 3.0 inches
Internal------------->55 MB

Cardslot------------->microSD (TransFlash), up to 32GB, 8GB included,
WLAN-------------->Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, DLNA
Java---------------->Yes, MIDP 2.0

Camera------------->8.1 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

Secondary---------->No

Video--------------->Yes 30 fps
Bluetooth----------->Yes, v2.0
Infraredport-------->No
AudioJack---------->3.5 mm audio jack
USB---------------->microUSB v2.0
Battery------------->Li-Po 1000 mAh

Stand-by----------->Up to 380 h (2G) / Up to 367 h (3G)

Talktime----------->Up to 13 h (2G) / Up to 4 h 30 min (3G)

Price --------------->600 USD approx

27000 INR approx

Sony Ericsson Aino Review

The touch sensitivemode is only available when the phone slider is closed. It features shortcuts to the camera, gallery, audio and video player and the FM radio. As a whole, all icons are large enough to press with your fingers, although they provide access to rather simplified functions only, say, browsing files or starting them and you do not have the opportunity to fiddle with equalizer or sound settings for an instance. Given the huge display, we hope device provides proper video playback, although this is something that Sony Ericsson is hardly famous for.

The Aino's MP3 player and media gallery have been given a revamp over previous Sony Ericsson phones, and they look stunning. Navigating your content is extremely easy, and the sound and visualizations from the new Walkman Media Player 3.0 software are excellent.

There are nice touches to the UI, though, such as being able to focus on an object by pointing at it on the touchscreen, as well as the more usual iPhone effect of interacting with the whole phone's menu structure by pushing, pulling, dragging and gesturing.

In short, the Aino's interface is well executed. You might not want to use it for large amounts of text, but because it's not designed as a smartphone, you probably won't be the type who wants to do that on your phone anyway.

All phones worth their salt these days have had a lot of effort put into the user interface (UI) and overall user experience. With the Aino, that's sort of the case, but it doesn't come as close to the iPhone experience as you'd expect.

With the combination of touchscreen and superb 3" display, it's got the technology underneath it for Sony Ericsson to provide a decent UI. However, although the UI looks good, it's no different from their recent phones. Worse, you still need to use the keypad to access most functions, with the touchscreen only working when the phone's in media mode.

One feature that's missing that really shouldn't be for a media phone, though, is a 3.5mm jack. You can use the supplied earbuds, which fortunately are of good quality, but you can't use your own headphones. This is simply unforgivable, as every other manufacturer as moved over to the standard 3.5mm headphone jack design by now.The Aino features video recording at 30fps, and obviously supports video streaming. Its camera is an 8.1 megapixel model with LED flash, auto focus, face detection and smile detection. Sony Ericsson have always been at the forefront of quality in its camera phones, and the Aino looks set to carry on this tradition.

The Sony Ericson Aino sports 8.1-megapixel camera with autofocus and built-in flash. You operate it done via the touch sensitive screen and its interface offers different presets, can change the focusing mode, gives control over the flash, self-portrait function, snapshot resolution and geotagging via the built-in GPS receiver. Keep in mind the camera interface looks unfinished and will probably go through substantial changes until the retail units hit the shelves.

The Aino, as you'd expect from a device that's been designed to stream video, has a plethora of high speed connectivity options. Wi-Fi comes as standard, as you'd expect, as does 7.2Mbps HSDPA. There's also quad band GSM connectivity, USB 2.0, Bluetooth 2.0 and DLNA support, for seamless connectivity with other DLNA equipped devices (such as your PC or certain HDTVs).

The Sony Ericsson Aino seamlessly connects to the PS3 using Sony's Remote Play feature. This lets you control, interact and stream any of the content stored on the PS3 directly to an external device.

Initially, Remote Play was designed for the PSP, but it's also found its way onto the Aino. As such, the Aino can be seen as a direct competitor to the PSP, albeit without any game playing functionality. But that's ok, as none of the games for the PSP are actually worth playing anyway, so if you fancy a handheld media device, the Aino makes much more sense than the PSP!

It doesn't stop with the PS3, though. With DLNA support and Sony Ericsson's MediaGo technology, you can also interact with any of the content you have stored on your PC.

When the Aino is charging, it'll automatically connect to your PC over WiFi, and, via the MediaGo software installed on your PC, will automatically synchronize with all the content you've got stored on it.

Once synchronized, you can then access this content over the Internet anywhere in the world. The content is stored on your PC, but you control, stream and ultimately view it (or listen to it) on your Aino. Genius!

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