The Sony Ericsson Satio is a touchscreen phone with an amazing 12.1 Megapixel camera. Thanks to an incredible 12.1 Megapixel sensor Autofocus touch focus and a Xenon flash the Satio (formerly known as the Idou) delivers world class photography to the masses. With a built in 3.5 inch touchscreen and running on the Symbian operating system the Sony Ericsson Satio also boasts HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity for high speed web browsing GPS for SatNav services and support for a host of music and video file formats making it the ultimate multimedia phone.------*This mobile phone is compatible with all European networks.
Customer Reviews : Sexy Satio stuns Society
I had to get a new phone because my Samsung Innov8 was giving up the ghost- could barely hear the other person when I got calls. I'm pretty sure one friend no longer talks to me because he thinks I'm giving him the cold shoulder, when in fact I simply cant hear him and have to hang up!
Now this Satio is a real humdinger. I got the red one, or "bordeaux", as they say in SE circles. It's damn sexy, stylish, and says quality. The sliding camera lens cover/switch is smooth, and reveals the lens with neighbouring flash, lights and range and focus sensors, making this mobile phone look more like a camera which happens to have excellent phone, sms and music player capabilities all wrapped in one. The fact that it is a 12.1 megapixel camera doesnt hurt either.
The touchscreen useability is not bad. Some parts are a little confusing and I dont know why there sometimes seems to be doubling up on the number of steps required, such as smsing. Nevertheless, it's a great sexy phone slash camera and I have no regrets buying it. I've had it for 2 days and already taken 50 photos and 4 short vids- great quality stuff, especially considering they were all taken at night.
I've especially fallen in love with the touch focus method of taking photos. You dont have to press the shutter button. Once you set it up on the "focus" option, all you do is touch the LCD screen and the camera will focus on that part of the photo. So you can touch the far upper right corner of the screen, for example, and it will focus there and take the pic immediately after. Amazing technology.
Surprisingly for Sony Ericsson, it comes with a 8gb micro SD card, which is unexpected because SE generally doesnt like to give out things like memory cards for "free", and also because they're usually a stickler for their own Sony memory stick series of memory cards. Personally I'm glad, since it meant I could simply transfer my micro SD card from my Samsung to the Satio.
Also surprisingly, it did not come with those earphones which have the soft rubber earplugs which block out noise around you, giving a clearer playback from the music player, which is, of course, good, being Sony. The earpiece has a colour coordiinated listen/disconnect button where the left and right wires meet, which is attractive, but doesnt make up for the cheaper earpieces. Since it doesnt come with a 3.5mm jack, you cant use your favourite headphones without buying an adaptor.
Would I recommend this phone? Yes- at least try it out. I'm pretty sure you'll like it :)
March 24th 2010.
I'm updating to let readers know the Satio has software glitches. The ones I saw when I first got the Satio were, I believed, simply poor user friendliness design, such as getting to the screen to type a sms. It needs two presses too many to type and send.
However, there is now a very serious problem with my Satio. The t9 function is almost non functional.
For example, if I press the buttons to type "Hi how are you?", I get "gh how ard zou?"
or if I try to type "I'll be around", I get "I.kl af armvo?"
It's as if half the dictionary has disappeared.
I has done updates of the software and it has made no difference.
The only reason that could possibly account for it is the removal of the micro SD card without going through the menus to click...whatever you have to click. I only saw the message after I took out the card.
I'll be taking it to the service centre when time permits and hopefully get it sorted out.
