Just check out the video below to see what I mean. The Sony Ericsson Aino is an intriguing concept. The Sony Ericsson Aino is out now. I got one already! I love it!!!! Read the full Sony Ericsson Aino review after the jump. Sony Ericsson Aino overview The Aino is a difficult phone to categorize.
Software Although the Aino misses out on having an app store, it at least comes bundled with software from Google, Facebook and YouTube, with rumours of a Twitter app coming soon. There's also a unique face-detection mode that will automatically detect and focus in on a subject's face right before you snap a photo.
After you take the photo, you can make it black and white, or you can fix any red eyes via the one-touch photo edit tool. The camcorder is quite good as well. There's a self-timer option as well.
Photo quality is quite good--pictures looked sharp for the most part, but we did wish the colors looked brighter. Video quality was okay. Video looked rather pixelated and washed out at times, but they're decent enough for short clips to share with friends. The Aino comes with a surprising number of applications. There are also dedicated applications for Facebook and Twitter. The Aino has a few games as well, like Crazy Penguin and Quadrapop.
More options are available via the Web browser, as are additional graphics and ringtones. Call quality was very good on the whole. On our end, we heard our callers loud and clear without much distortion or background noise. Their voices sounded natural, almost as if they were on a landline. Callers reported similarly excellent call quality.
They reported little to no static, plenty of volume, and a very natural sounding voice. Automated voice systems responded to our voice without issue as well. Speakerphone calls were quite good--callers said they could hardly tell we were using a speakerphone, as there was hardly any echo effect at all.
On our end, we heard them clearly enough via the phone's speakers. Audio quality was really quite good, even via the phone's speakers. Though a little on the harsh and tinny side, you could still make out the differences between equalizer settings.
When heard via a headset though, the audio sounded superb without any tinny effects at all. The bass equalizer setting, for example, really amplified the bass of the songs. The Wisepilot for Sony Ericsson comes with days trial period, starting after the first time you start the app.
After this month expires you will need a subscription — 1 week license costs 3 euro, while a full year global navigation goes as high as 70 euro. The Wisepilot for LG had similar prices, but for the 70 euro you get only European navigation. Here you can also buy separately Traffic Information and Speed Cameras as an option - for 20 euro each.
Google Maps. The Crazy Penguin Catapult is very addicting game where you hunt bears using some penguin-kamikazes. Penguins get upgraded too as you advance through the levels. Crazy Penguin Catapult. The Quadrapop is very similar to Tetris, this time with some colorful creatures instead of bricks.
Rethink and renew is what Sony Ericsson are quite keen to do and the Aino is among the agents of change. Perhaps it doesn't have a stronger case for innovation than the Satio and the X10 , but staying in touch with history is just as important. Obviously, part of Aino's responsibility is to carry on a tradition of feature phone excellence that climaxed in the Sony Ericsson C and W Cybershot and Walkman are still magic words in the world of mobile phones.
And Sony Ericsson continue to exploit that sort of in-house cross branding. Scrolling down shows all the photos taken in the corresponding month with the highlighted photo slightly enlarged for better viewing. The Pictures section again opens as a 3 x 5 grid of thumbs with non-camera images such as the preinstalled wallpapers. When exiting the fullscreen view of a picture, it smoothly zooms out to thumb view. The familiar image gallery.
Generally, the Photo gallery is a richly-featured tool for managing your photo collection and it offers very good customization capabilities. Photo Tags displays previously marked favorite photos. Other than that, you can set a photo as wallpaper, screen saver, startup screen, and contact picture straight from the gallery.
The well known Pan and Zoom and slideshow features are also on board. When browsing tagged images in the gallery, the View-on-map option displays the location where the picture was taken directly on the preinstalled Google Maps.
Accordingly, picture browsing via the classic file manager is still possible, but we are sure only few users will make use of it. The gallery through the file manager is still available. It definitely looks the part - especially on a screen that big. You will find the new graphical styles here as well - tape recorders, gramophones, CD players - it's all part of the game of making the Walkman player more attractive.
The Walkman player. The video player in the media center supports fast-forwarding and rewinding, and the interface is simple and stylish.
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