The Sony Ericsson Satio - the Smartphone with the Loudest Bang

Author: Simon Drew

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The Sony Ericsson Satio figures ad one of the key models for its 2009 product line and is expected to land in European markets by the last quarter of the year. Formerly codenamed Idou during its development stages, the Satio kicks off at a price point similar to Xperia launch price of slightly less than €1000. Symbian touch style As a first for Sony Ericsson, the Satio’s use of the current Symbian s60 5th edition OS touchscreen User Interface may have been motivated by the rush to have the Satio in the market at the soonest time. Sony Ericsson has not be known for getting there as promised for many of its new flagship phones. So the decision could be more motivated by expediency over anything else. If you are into expensive smartphones, there’s a good chance you’ve seen how the Symbian S60 5th edition OS touch style works. The screen response can be seen on the quite popular Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. Sony Ericsson has customized the user interface using a pioneering tabbed home screen that Satio. Design Excellence The Satio is big. Bigger than the XPERIA models. But it sports a slim 112mm x 55mm x 13mm touchscreen form factor that at 129 grams is still very pocket-friendly for a flagship touchscreen smartphone. It may not be a standout, but once you start to get a feel of the phone in your hand, the solid feel and compact form lets you know you have a robust well crafted smartphone. Imaging and Multimedia Experience at its Best The Satio’s 3.5” display dominates the façade and is simply without parallel for a Symbian smartphone. Or from any mobile hone with large screens. Its 24-bit 16million color depth makes it the largest screen of this kind, brilliant enough to display the fantastic high resolution images from its 12-megapixel Cybershot-based camera â€" another first for a mobile handset. Assisted with auto-focus, Xenon flash, face and smile detection, automatic red eye reduction and geo-tagging, its camera is simply above the competition. It may not have new HD video recording of Samsung’s Omnia Pro, but the phone's VGA video recording at 30 fps is just ahead of the crowd. Needless to say, its Walkman media players couldn’t be more satisfying. Sporting a stereo FM radio and equalizers to enhance your listening pleasures, and generous memory storage from its 32GB microSD slot support, the Satio delivers one of the best multimedia experiences you can find. You get what you pay for Indeed you do. At its price point and innovative features to match, nothing comes close. This could very well be the finest mobile phone in Sony Ericsson’s stable.

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SplashData's SplashPhoto 4.0 Now Available for Sony Ericsson P800 Smartphones

Author: Anonymous

Source: free-articles



SEATTLE WA via MobilityNewswire) September 29 2003--SplashData, Inc., the leading developer of โ€œvirtual walletโ€ applications for mobile devices, has yet again ported its popular SplashPhoto image viewer software to another platform. SplashPhoto, originally developed for Palm OS PDAs and recently ported to Pocket PC devices, is now available for Sony Ericsson P800 smartphones. It is the first image viewer to be available for the P800 smartphone and is the first to enable users to manage and synchronize their image libraries with a desktop PC. SplashPhoto also enables P800 users to snap pictures with the built-in camera and quickly organize the images into electronic photo albums on the desktop



Executives with both Sony Ericsson and Symbian have expressed enthusiasm for the release of SplashPhoto for the P800:




โ€œWe are very excited to see the high level of quality and innovativeness with which the members of our Developer Program keep creating useful and fun applications that evolve the use of our phones,โ€ said Ulf Wretling, Director of Sony Ericsson's Developer Program. โ€œWe are looking forward to more applications from SplashData, and believe that SplashPhoto will become very successful in the Sony Ericsson Application Shop. SplashPhoto is an excellent choice for P800 users, enabling them to edit and organize digital photos on their desktop PC then synchronize and display those photos on their P800.โ€




"SplashPhoto is an excellently designed image viewer which adds real value to Symbian OS-based smartphone users,โ€ said Phil Spencer, Global Manager, Affiliate Partner Program at Symbian. "We are pleased to have SplashData join the Symbian Affiliate Partner Program and bring with them their long-standing experience at developing successful programs for mobile devices."




SplashPhoto, recently named โ€œBest Image Viewerโ€ by the editorial staff of Handheld Computing Magazine, and winner of the Handango Champion Award for โ€œBest Lifestyle Application,โ€ offers a fast, easy-to-use image viewer for handhelds and smartphones. Version 4.0 includes a desktop catalog feature with two-way synchronization, offering the easiest means of managing photos on a desktop PC and P800. Its one-of-a-kind desktop application now enables users to organize image collections into personalized categories and, upon synchronization, the images are arranged accordingly on the P800. There is no limit to the number of personalized categories that users can create.




While other image viewers allow users to view pictures on a device in their original size (many of which are upwards of 1 MB), SplashPhoto enables users to crop images on the desktop, then format and compress them for optimal viewing on the handheld's screen. As a result, SplashPhoto users are able to store hundreds of images on their devices rather than only having the capacity for storing a few.




SplashPhoto 4.0 makes it easier than ever to share photos with friends and family members. First, all images are stored as JPG files, simplifying the process of sharing pictures with people using other operating systems. Secondly, images can be transferred via Bluetooth, infrared or e-mail between different types of devices, including handhelds, smartphones, laptops and other devices.




SplashPhoto 4.0 features include:

* a desktop catalog for easily managing photo albums and synchronizing them with the P800;

* unlimited user-defined categories for organizing images;

* optimization for the P800 ARM-processor, resulting in instantaneous image display;

* SplashPhoto Desktop automatically crops/resizes JPG images to the appropriate resolution for optimal viewing on the P800;

* support for the P800 built-in camera, enabling users to instantly view and organize images captured with the built-in camera, and the ability to sync those images to the desktop for further editing, organizing and archiving;

* a โ€œPan and Zoomโ€ feature, enabling users who have installed large, high-resolution JPG images on their P800 to zoom in and out or pan across the picture to improve on-screen viewing;


SplashPhoto 4.0 is available for $29.95 at www.splashdata.com.