Sony Ericsson AiNo Unlocked Phone with Camera, 3G Enabled, GPS (Black) |  | Brand: Sony
Category: Wireless
List Price: $599.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 25575
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone Accessory
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0.6 x 2 x 4.1
MPN: AINOU10A
Model: AINOU10a
UPC: 095673852469
EAN: 0095673852469
ASIN: B002T89TS0
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| Features:
| • | 3-Inch widescreen touch screen + keypad | | • | 8.1 MP camera with auto focus & VGA video capture | | • | Video & music playback with a clear audio experience | | • | 3G enabled, plus Wi-Fi and a GPS location services | | • | Stereo Bluetooth headset & charging cradle included |
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Product Description
AINOU10A 3G CP 16.6M COL TCHSCRN 8.1MPIX CAM
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| Customer Reviews:
Better, but weirder, than the W995 April 3, 2010
F. Iacobelli (University Heights, Ohio United States)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Let me start by saying that this is truly a unique mobile phone. It's 20% touch screen, and 80% slider.
I'll explain:
Before purchasing the Sony Ericsson Aino, I used the delightful Sony Ericsson W995. The latter is really an every-day run of the mill slider phone. It had a very good 8.1MP camera, decent video recording, 8GB of space, and a beautiful screen. After about 9 months, I wanted to upgrade and instead of going for the Nokia X6 (which I had been planning on getting), I purchased the Aino.
For starters, the phone has a significantly better 8.1MP camera than the W995. Also, (and ITS ABOUT TIME!) it's one of the very first SE phones to offer 30fps (DVD standard) video recording. The pictures are absolutely brilliant, and finally the videos look good!
It has a capacitive touch screen (like the iPhone...it relies on heat, NOT pressure) but this can be used only when the phone is closed. From here, you can access your pictures, videos, the camera, the radio, and all of your music. This is where the touch functionality ends. When you slide the phone open, it reveals the keypad (a rather uncomfortable one at that) and what may be the longest phone I've ever seen.
With the slider open, this is pure Sony Ericsson. If you know anything about SE, you'll be immediately put at ease. It has to be one of the very best feature phones on the market. Of course, like the W995, and unlike Symbian Nokia's, the UI really cannot be customized. But this is totally okay because its so perfectly laid out. The screen is GORGEOUS. SO MUCH MORE SO than the W995. It's fast (faster than the latter) and the interface is smooth. Everything is within intuitive reach.
Now, not everything is good. First, you can do absolutely nothing with the phone closed (except for access what I mentioned above). In other words, when you receive a text, you cannot even see who sent it, let alone what it says. The screen will only say "text message received." Essentially, this means that to do absolutely anything other than what I mentioned the touch functions are, you must slide the phone open. Kindof annoying when you only want to read the text and not respond.
But, the slider is firm and precise. No wobbling. The build quality is the very best that I have ever seen in a cell phone. Certainly on par with the iPhone.
Let me sum up the good and the bad.
THE GOOD:
1. Up to 32GB of memory with a micro SD (unlike 8GB with previous models).
2. The camera is now absolutely fantastic.
3. Video recording at 30fps. (This is so two-years-ago for the rest of the phone world, but this is SE).
4. Build quality is superb.
5. Sound quality is even better.
6. Comes with a blue tooth head set that lights up and looks great.
THE BAD
1. You have to slide the phone open to do anything, even just view a text.
2. The keypad will take some serious getting used to...its very very small and lacks good feedback.
3. You can only access a very limited amount of things with the touch screen (which offers perfect response though).
Hope this helps!!!
Oh and did I mention... you can turn on your PS3 from anywhere with a WI-FI or over-the-air connection. From there, you can stream your movies, songs, and tv-shows. Kinda cool, huh?
Not a bad phone. Worth checking out if you want a large screened slider with keypad. June 21, 2010
Adrian
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I needed a phone with a large screen, but had a normal keypad, not a qwerty one. Given the plethera of touchscreens which are all the rage, I had no choice but to buy a second hand phone and eventually settled for a SE Aino.
So what's the Aino like? Overall, it's typical Sony Ericsson. The phone part is good, with usually clear reception and able to hear the other person without static, unless you're in a black spot. The software is stable (so far) and there are many applications you can upload. I've already uploaded a few myself.
The Good:
- Large clear screen.
- Large clear clock on said screen.
- Good telephony.
- Good photos.
- Quality build.
- Nice dock, although a bit cheapish.
- Included Bluetooth headset, which has fancy LED lights.
- Calculator- at last SE has changed the way the "+", "-", "/" and "*" buttons are arranged and made it slightly less cumbersome. Still far to go before it reaches proper user friendliness but better than the ones installed for the past few years.
- Music quality is good when I attach my headphones to it. )not the bluetooth ones)
- Plenty of multimedia options.
The not so Good:
- The sound through the supplied Bluetooth headset is quite lacking is bass and depth (unless I haven't been using it correctly). I was quite surprised by this. SE usually supplies good quality headsets, at least in terms of sound.
- The touchscreen is sometimes non responsive.
- Yet at the same time, sometimes after I take it out of my pocket, I find the touchscreen on and it is playing the music player through external speakers, or sometimes the camera is on.
- The camera has only basic features. Can't do multi shot, change shutter sound, change the option to use touchscreen to take photos (on the Satio, you can) or much else. Also no editing of photo (besides rotation), cropping, or even changing the review time of taken photo.
- The video taken by the camera is jerky.
- The sliding action causes the back of the screen to rub against and scratch the buttons (same thing happened with other SE sliders too)
- Keypad buttons bit small.
- When you receive a sms it only tells you you have received a sms, it doesn't tell you who it is from until you slide open the phone.
- Writing and sending sms's still requires double pressing, so to speak. ie press "continue", the press "send"..I mean guys...why have "continue"? Just have "send" and be done with it! Even Motorola, King of user unfriendly and backwards OS's makes it single press, instead of two or three.
- Lacks the customiseablity of some brands. For example, you can't move icons around when you go to the main menu, or in your message folder, you can't move different folders into a particular order you'd prefer.
I've only had the phone for a week, so I'm sure more good and not so good things will pop up. Nevertheless, I find the phone quite useable though I think most of the touchscreen functions are not very useful overall. The touchscreen aspect seems gimmicky. Luckily most of it is not touchscreen, the screen is large, and it works. For those who are not into touchscreen phones, it's worth looking at.
Note:
In Q3 or Q4 of 2010, Sony Ericsson will release 2 "new" phones with 3+ inch screens- one clamshell, one slider. I can't wait that long. I say "new" in inverted commas, because although they are rare internationally, they have been the standard fare for the Japanese market for almost 5 years, and they have a gazillion features that we exJapanese miss out on. Features we think are "new" have usually been on Japanese phones for a year or two already.
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