Satio, Former Idou, Hotter Than Ever

29/05/2009 02:08 par slaytane

It’s all Sony Ericsson these days, since aside from a couple of cool concepts, we’ve also seen real handsets announced by SE itself. After checking out Aino and the remade Aino, it’s time to have a look at Satio, formerly known as Idou, the first 12.1 megapixel cameraphone.

This is a high end smartphone, part of the Entertainment Unlimited series and it comes with a large 3.5 inch TFT touchscreen display with a 360 x 640 pixels resolution and 16:9 aspect ratio. Sony Ericsson Satio’s camera uses Xenon Flash and intuitive touch focus, as for the OS, the smartphone is based on Symbian S60 5th edition.

It’ll hit the market in October bundled with an 8GB Sandisk card. Is there any difference between the Idou prototype shown at MWC this year and Satio? What could exceed our expectations? Maybe 20 megapixels and a huge internal memory…

Promotional video of the handset after the break.

Aino

29/05/2009 02:03 par slaytane

Sadly, the Sony Aino mobile phone isn't the fabled PSPhone, but it does support one feature from the handheld device. Using the phone, you will be able to access your PS3 via Remote Play and, because the device is 3G enabled, you won't have to rely on Wi-Fi access. Once connected, you'll be able to stream movies, images and music from your hard disk drive.

Europeans will also be able to access PlayTV, allowing them to view, pause and rewind live television, as well as setting programs to record from afar. There's no indication of whether the phone will have access to the PlayStation Network store or the friends list, but that would be the icing on an already tasty cake. Having this feature on a cell phone makes perfect sense -- hopefully this is something that will become a lot more prevalent in the future. Who knows, one day we might see a Remote Play iPhone app. We'd love that.

8.1 MP,

Yari

29/05/2009 01:59 par slaytane

Au-delà de ses points forts dans le jeu, le Yari présente d’autres atouts. Pour ce qui doit rester un téléphone, le contraire serait malheureux. Disponible à la fin de cette année, ce nouvel appareil quadribande sait se connecter aux réseaux HSUPA. Malgré la présence d’un capteur A-GPS, d’une carte mémoire d’un gigaoctet qui sied parfaitement l’objectif photo de 5 mégapixels, on soulignera l’absence de Wi-Fi.

Néanmoins, une nouveauté amusante apparaît et, si notre mémoire ne nous fait pas défaut, il s’agit d’une première: la possibilité de faire entendre un morceau à son correspondant. En pleine conversation, l’utilisateur peut agrémenter la discussion d’une chanson présente dans son téléphone. Autre légère innovation: l’envoi de sa position géographique par SMS.

Le tout pèse 115 grammes pour un boîtier de 100 x 48 x 15.7mm. Surprise de taille: le format de la carte mémoire est microSD.

Thresher

25/05/2009 17:08 par slaytane

Nokia have been holding out - they have four new devices headed to the US and they are not rebrandings of old devices. This is certainly uncommon, the US getting a GSM Nokia phone before Europe does. Well, we've seen stranger things happen in the past, so why not.

The all four spanking new Nokia phones are headed to AT&T and have quad-band GSM support with three-band HSDPA (except one, which is just dual-band HSDPA). They all have a QVGA display of 2 inches or more, GPS, as well as Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and microSD. And they're all named after fish.

First up is Nokia Thresher (threshers are some weird looking sharks if you must know). It's an S40 slider with a 2.4" display and a 3.15MP camera. It has a certain N-series feel to it, especially with the optical joystick. And if you squint, while looking at it, it does look a bit like a Nokia N85.

Snapper

25/05/2009 17:03 par slaytane

The other two phones - the Snapper and the Grouper - are both named after big fish and are music-optimized flips. "Music-optimized" is perhaps a bit undeserved, as they have 2.5mm jacks, same as the others, which are rated in the leaked marketing materials only as "music-capable" despite having the same jacks and A2DP support as these fishes. What sets the two last handsets apart are the dedicated music keys, which doesn't say much about their audio reproduction quality.

Grouper

25/05/2009 17:01 par slaytane

Nokia Pulse Pocket Projector Concept, Controlled via Nokia Cellphone

25/05/2009 11:51 par slaytane

The Nokia Pulse Projector concept is a project aimed at enriching the multimedia features of a Nokia phone, by turning the handset into the remote of a pocket projector. Designed by Miika Mahonen, this gadget combines a LED projector with a NXT speaker with support for Dolby surround into a multimedia device.

It’ll also come with Pulse software and Bluetooth connectivity.

Nokia Pulse uses DLP technology and supports a native resolution of 1280×768 pixels and a 1500:1 contrast ratio, for very crisp images. Picture size ranges from 15 inches (diagonal) to 60 inches (at 7.87 feet) and the projector uses LED light technology with 1000 lumens of brightness and 16.7 million colors.

This project is very likely to be made into a real product and I’m sure that in a year’s time at most, we’ll see it announced officially.

L502, Green Cameraphone Reminds Us of Spring

22/05/2009 12:40 par slaytane

Esato board newcomer lor_pse designed the beautiful Sony Ericsson L502 concept phone, defined as “something between a K and a T, at SE colours”. I have to admit that the combination of colours is brilliant, but somewhere in my brain there’s a mechanism telling me that green and white is some sort of “colour branding” that defines cheap and poor-specced handsets.

This is not the case and although the colorus seem taken from an Alcatel or Sagem device, the L502 comes with a 2.2 inch QVGA screen, a 5 megapixel autofocus camera, 8GB of internal memory plus an M2 slot. Its specs list also includes HSDPA (7.2 Mbps), WiFi, GPS/AGPS and stereo loudspeakers. The Sony Ericsson L502 concept phone measures 100 x 48 x 10.5mm and weighs 79 grams.

As for the colours, seriously, when was the last time you saw a green and white smartphone or best selling handset?

X2 Concept, Wallpaper Till It Gets Launched

22/05/2009 12:38 par slaytane

Sealover94 from Esato introduces yet another XPERIA X2 concept phone, this time one that should make it to the tech addict’s wallpaper list. The blurry pic below is the creation of tob!s, also from Esato, who really imagines an X2 in action.

Some of us are barely getting used to handling a Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1, while these folks are already dreaming of the next generation of Windows Mobile and SE-branded devices… Taking their opinion into consideration is the least that Sony Ericsson can do, if they want to succeed.

W570 Concept Phone, Colourful Device for a Depressing Autumn

22/05/2009 12:36 par slaytane

Designed by ChefZX from mobile-review, the Sony Ericsson W570 concept is a pretty hot Walkman device, although a bit thick. Depending on the colour of its sliding piece, it’ll light up in green, blue, orange or mauve.

I have to say that this is quite a long handset, with the usual side volume control buttons, play/pause key beneath the screen and comfortable numeric keypad.