The Sony Ericsson Satio (U1i) is a smartphone, announced by Sony Ericsson at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on 15 February 2009 as the Idou.Infosync World: Sony Ericsson Satio, Aino and Yari Unveiled It was released on 7 October 2009 in the UK in 3 colour schemes: Black, Silver and Bordeaux (Red).
Succeeding both the Walkman and Cyber-shot, the primarity focus of the phone is the high quality playback of music and video, as well as photography. The camera features a xenon flash, similar to the earlier K800 and K850. On the side of the phone, there is a shutter button, and a button which allows you to switch between still and video modes. Next to this is a rocker switch for zooming in and out. Also on this side is a button for playback of photos or video. The other side of the phone has a sliding lock button and a covered slot for a MicroSD card.
The front of the phone is dominated by a , 16:9 ratio 360x640 TFT resistive touchscreen. There is also a front-facing camera for video calling. At the bottom of the touchscreen are three small buttons: green (left), white (centre), and red (right).
In terms of software, Satio uses the Symbian OS 9.4 operating system, which is created collaboratively under the stewardship of the Symbian Foundation as "Symbian^1".All About Symbian - MWC: Sony Ericsson announce the Idou It is Sony Ericsson's first non-UIQ Symbian device, after UIQ's development closed down earlier that year. It uses the PlayNow service, Sony Ericsson's mobile content platform, and is part of the company's new Entertainment Unlimited service. In terms of connectivity, it is Wi-Fi-enabled and has a GPS chip for navigation and location-based services. It also supports full Flash for video playback.
The phone was withdrawn from sale in November 2009 by two major British retailers due to complaints from customers. However, the problem was found only in UK editions of the phone and was probably caused by carrier-specific customizations. The following software update released by Sony Ericsson provided a fix and the phone was back for sale at those two retailers.
Sony Ericsson Satio, then Sony Ericsson Vivaz and finally Sony Ericsson Vivaz pro are the latest additions by Sony Ericsson to the Symbian OS family of phones. Afterwards, they were succeeded by the Sony Xperia line of Android Smartphones.
Features 16:9, 3.5 inch widescreen 12.1-megapixel camera, intuitive touch focus, Xenon flash and face and smile detection Symbian S60 5th Edition Operating System Touch navigation
Dimensions 112 x 55 x 13 mm
Display nHD TFT resistive touchscreen 16 million colours 360 x 640 pixels 3.5"
Memory Internal storage: 73 MB RAM: 256 MB Micro SD memory card support
Connectivity aGPS Bluetooth technology Modem PC Synchronization USB support USB mass storage Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, DLNA Google Maps PictBridge TV Out Data Transfer Sync
Camera 12.1 MP (can use 2 MP, 5 MP, 9 MP, 10 MP and 12 MP modes) Digital zoom - up to 16x 4000 × 3000 pixels Auto-focus Video recording (640x480 @ 30 frame/s, WVGA 864x480 @ 24 frame/s via software update) Video light Xenon flash Video blogging Geo-Tagging BestPic Face detection Image stabilizer Photo fix Picture blogging Red-eye reduction Smile detection
Internet Web browser - WebKit Web feeds Opera Mobile 12 for Symbian OS Opera Mini 7 for Symbian OS SkyFire Skype
Entertainment 3D games Java Media Radio - FM radio Video Clip Video streaming YouTube
Messaging Email Exchange ActiveSync Instant messaging Picture messaging (MMS) Predictive text input Sound recorder Text messaging (SMS)
Communication Polyphonic ringtones Speakerphone Vibrating Alert Video calling
Design Auto rotate Navigation key Picture wallpaper
Organiser Alarm clock Calculator Calendar Document editors Document readers Flight mode Handwriting recognition Notes Phone book Touchscreen
CPU Texas Instruments OMAP3430 Cortex-A8 @ 600 MHz 3D Accelerator PowerVR SGX530
See also OMAP Samsung M8910 Pixon12 Nokia N8 Nokia N97 Nokia X6-00 Symbian S60 Sony Ericsson C905
References
External links Official website