Review Sony Ericsson Aino

Aino is Sony’s new Multimedia phone. A true streaming phone, which can seamlessly connect to your PC or PC3, not only this but you can also stream music, video, play TV with the ability to play, pause, rewind (just like Sky+). Aino is worth calling something more than a phone, it has features like 8 mpx camera, Music Player, GPS and many other features that you would expect from a high end mobile.

As fas as the design is concerned, the designers have tried to maintain it as simple as possible. The front panel is purely dedicated to the screen, 3’’ display that can certainly, support up to 16 million colors. The very reason for the 3’’ display is the fact that the phone is a touch-based phone.

With the previous models users had trouble connect Sony phones with their PC and bringing them to a sync was a biggest challenge, but now with Aino, things are mostly automatic, with just Wi-Fi and MediaGo software installed on your PC Aino can automatically get connected to your PC and stay in sync.

Though the phone has a touch enabled, one thing for sure is that its features can never stand upto iPhones, and the other worst thing is that there are still a couple of functionalities which can only be done through keypad. As far as the placement of the keys are concerned, fast port takes the left side while the volume rocker and camera activator takes the opposite side. The top only has the lock key and the back only has the camera lens, there seems no protection for the lens.

The UI seems to have close correlation with Sony PlayStation 3, there is no doubt about it, since Aino is supposed to be compatible with PS3. The other best feature of the phone is that the phone comes with the latest walkman player 3.0. it definitely looks great on the large screen and as a part of the quality of the music, there is no doubt, since Sony Walkman series have been performing extremely well.

On the whole Aino is a gift to those who wanted to have walkman series features and Cybershot features all in one single phone. Off late Sony has planned to change their gaming plans, hence the games might also, change.

Form factor: Touchscreen slider                                                                                   Dimensions: 104 x 50 x 15.5 mm, 134 g                                                          Display: 3-inch 16M color TFT display, 240 x 432 pixel resolution                      Memory: 55MB integrated memory, hot-swappable microSD card slot (up to 16GB)                                                                                                                                             Still camera: 8 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, touch focus, geo-tagging, face detection, smile detection, image stabilizer, smart contrast   Video recording: VGA video recording at 30 fps                                                        Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, GPS receiver with A-GPS support                                                                                                                                            Misc: Partial touchscreen functionality, accelerometer for screen auto rotate, FM radio with RDS, Remote play for Playstation 3                                          Battery: 1000 mAh battery