Review: Sony Ericsson Satio - part 3: Applications and interface

[slitchfield]

Following on from the first two Sony Ericsson Satio review parts: One: Form, Design, Build Quality and Two: The Camera, here's my third look at the new Sony Ericsson flagship, rounding up its general applications and interface. Part 4 will address its new media suite and will assess this smartphone's overall worth, with me hoping that Sony Ericsson squeeze in another firmware update before then...

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hi steve,

just bought a satio on new year's day to replace my N82 and very pleased I am too. wanted to let you know that my phone does accept iplayer downloads, i'm version R1CA037.
as for layout of apps in different folders, i've found this with all my other nokia phones previously (n82, n80, 7610, 3650) and so i create 9 folders (tools, unused, gps, tools, apps, web, music, AV media, games) and move all the apps into the more natural folder headings. each folder never has more than 12 apps so no shuffling up and down.
i'm a bit wary moving away from nokia, but to be honest most of the other apps i use are 3rd party. i've just been chuffed about the quality photos i'm taking now!

Aidan

[slitchfield]

Hmm.... I'll try re-starting the phone again. OK, downloads now show up. Weird. Anyway, thanks, I've tweaked the text in the review!

Also, how do you find Flash photos? I've been very disappointed, on the whole, in this regard - my old N82 took far better Xenon snaps.

[richardyates]

I find the camera on this excellent - I haven't used my stand alone camera since I got it. Haven't used flash much, but when I have its been quite OK. Low light pictures without flash are amazingly good.

Main problems I have with it are:

keylock sometimes unlocks in pocket
keylock sometimes doesn't unlock without a few attempts
It was crashing fairly often, but hasn't since I upgraded the software

In short, I prefer the hardware of the i8910 as a phone, but the Satio camera stops me going back to it

i haven't taken many snaps in low light conditions but when i have they do look great on the big screen.

to be honest, when i take low light pics i tend to turn off the flash to get more natural effect otherwise you still get the 'spotlight' effect of the image disappearing out of the range of the flash. this happened on the n82 as well as the satio. I also like the camera menu system on the satio more, more intuitive and easier to use.

Aidan

So, just a 5800 with a better camera eh? The fact it´s processor/RAM puts the shame your phone of the year means nothing?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

So, just a 5800 with a better camera eh? The fact it´s processor/RAM puts the shame your phone of the year means nothing?

"But that's a big simplification, as you'll hopefully see below."

You conveniently left that part out.

[tonyn]

Speaking of firmware updates sometime between Christmas Eve & today T-Mobile UK finally approved the v31.0.101 firmware for my branded Nokia 5800.

Finally got the Web Browser performance improvements I've been waiting for!