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Sony Ericsson Satio is a smartphone, announced by Sony Ericsson at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on 15 February 2009 as the Idou (pronounced "I do"). It was released on 7 October 2009 in the UK in 3 colour schemes: Black, Silver and Bordeaux (Red).

The focus of the phone is the high quality playback of music and video, as well as photography. The camera is located on the back of the phone, behind a slider and features a xenon flash. On the side of the phone, there is a shutter button, and a button which allows you to switch between still and video modes. Next to this is a rocker switch for zooming in and out. Also on this side is a button for playback of photos or video. The other side of the phone has a sliding lock button and a covered slot for a MicroSD card.

There is a front facing video camera on there too for all that video calling fun everyone has these days, but it's down the sides of the phone where the button frenzy really begins.

On the left-hand side is the slider for unlocking the phone (which is in just about the right place for most hands), the standard Sony Ericsson port for USB connection, charging and headphone connection (boo!). Below that lives the microSD slot, which is covered by a nice hinged flap.

Over on the right side of the phone we get the camera controls, with the zoom buttons doubling as the volume up/down keys, despite having the 'proper' zoom icons on.

Below this is the photograph playback key, allowing quick access to your snaps in both camera mode and standby. There's also a video/camera swap hard key as well, which we're trying to work out if it has another function in other applications. It appears not to.

And below that is the stylishly hewn shutter for the camera. This side of the phone is well put together, laid out in the right manner and given the Satio's penchant for touch operation, a welcome addition

PRICE : 410 EURO

SPECIFICATIONS
General
2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100
HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 - Satio(a) for the Americas
Announced 2009, February
Status Available. Released 2009, October

Size
Dimensions 112 x 55 x 13 mm
Weight 126 g

Display
Type TFT touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 360 x 640 pixels, 3.5 inches
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
Sound Alert types Vibration, MP3, AAC ringtones
Speakerphone Yes

Memory
Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Detailed, max 30 days
Internal 128 MB storage; 256 MB RAM
Card slot microSD, up to 32GB, 8GB included, buy memory

Data
GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 3.6 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, DLNA
Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, v2.0

Camera
Primary 12 MP, 4000 x 3000 pixels, autofocus, xenon flash, video LED flash
Features Touch focus, geo-tagging, face and smile detection
Video Yes, WVGA@30fps (via software update)
Secondary VGA videocall camera

Features
OS Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5
CPU ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX graphics
Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser WAP 2.0/HTML, RSS reader
Radio Stereo FM radio
Games Yes + downloadable
Colors Black, Silver, Bordeaux
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Yes, MIDP 2.0
- Google Maps
- Gesture control
- MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player
- MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player
- TV-out
- Office document viewer
- Organizer
- T9

Battery
Standard battery, Li-Po 1000 mAh
Stand-by Up to 360 h (2G) / Up to 340 h (3G)
Talk time Up to11 h (2G) / Up to 4 h 50 min (3G)
Misc SAR EU 1.58 W/kg (head)