Sony Ericsson Aino

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Sony Ericsson Aino is a semi-touch handset that was released last month. It is a multimedia slider phone that aiming the young generation. The eye-catching feature in this phone would be the ability to remotely control your PlayStation 3.the  But don’t take it as a PSP phone, it is nothing to do with the gaming feature. In fact, it is playback content directly from your PS3. We will cover that later. So let see what’s else can this phone offers…

Design

As we know, the Sony Ericsson Aino is a semi-touch device. It come with a 3-inch, 240×320 resolution screen and it totally covers all the front panel. So if the slider don’t roll out, people will thing it is a fully touchscreen handset. Since it is a capacitive touchscreen, it is pleasant to ‘touch’ the screen and the pictures quality also is very good. However, the screen no longer touchable when the slider is open. The keypad is quite simple, a set of navigation on the top and numeric pad below it. There is nothing special about the keypad but when the keypad unveiled the phone is quite long. However when the keypad is close it is only measures 104 x 50 x 15.5 mm which is quite comfy to hold in hand with the weight of 134 g.

PS3 Remote controller

AS we mention above, the Aino has the ability to control PS3. This can be done via a local network between PS3 and Aino in your home or via the internet from anywhere in the world with the high speed connection of Wi-Fi or 3G. Though it can’t play game, but it is able to stream video and audio that in your PS3 and even can turn your PS3 on and off. Unfortunately it is not pulg-n-play service. You need to port-forwarding on your wireless router for you WLAN service. You can go to their website to get the guide on how to do it.

Camera

The 8MP camera in Sony Ericsson Aino would be another selling point of the phone. Although it is not as good as 12MP camera in Satio, but it still able to capture brilliant pictures. The camera come with many features such as autofocus, LED flash, Touch focus, geo-tagging, face detection, image stabilizer, smart contrast, red-eye reduction, videocalling flash, Touch focus, geo-tagging, face and smile detection, make it fair enough to stand beside a camera phone like SE C905.

Multimedia

However the multimedia menu comes in two different varieties which is for touch sensitive mode and non-touch sensitive mode. The Sony Ericsson Aino comes with the latest Walkman player 3.0. In non touch mode, there few new graphical styles on the player such as tape recorders, gramophones, CD player. There has no specific feature, only make the Walkman player more attractive. In touch sensitive mode, the multimedia menu is simpler. It features shortcuts to the camera, gallery, audio and video player and the FM radio. The touch audio and video players look almost the same, not much control option for the players, you can only select previous, next and play/pause to control tracks. Music quality is strong, whether using the Aino’s speakers or headphones. However, absence of a 3.5mm headphone jack make it hard to find a headset except using specialist Sony Ericsson earphones on the user. That is a letdown.

Conclusion

The Sony Ericsson Aino virtually is a very attractive handset. Not only the novelty feature but also the stylish design. For a phone that come with huge touchscreen, 8 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, GPS, and new features, it surely welcomed by many people. But the handset that come with such specs is normally also has a higher price tag. So what stopping some people to buy this phone would be the cost has to pay is too high.