Sony Ericsson Aino: A High-end Feature Phone

By Author: Jerry Smith
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In today's modern times, a mobile phone is no longer used to merely make calls and send messages. These days, it is important that your phone is also capable of doing much more. Sony Ericsson is known for producing great camera mobiles with even better music features. One such phone that combines excellent functionality with a great camera is the Sony Ericsson Aino, which wins much reputation among fans of Sony Ericsson mobile phones. With a powerful lithium ion 1000 mAh battery, it supports up to eleven hours of talk time over the 2G network as well as four hours and fifty minutes over the 3G network. There are other advantages about this Sony Ericsson Aino mobile phone that are worth lauding about.

First of all, the Sony Ericsson Aino is a charming 3G mobile phone which is launched in an obsidian black and a luminous white colored casing complete with a high gloss finish. This slider mobile phone comes with a 3 inches TFT capacitive touchscreen which displays up to sixteen million colors at a resolution of 240 x 432 ...
... pixels. With a dimension of 104 x 50 x 15.5 mm and weight of 134 grams, this mobile phone is light enough to keep in your shirt pocket without worrying over losing it due to its compact shaped casing.
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Sporting a 8.1-megapixel camera, the Sony Ericsson Aino is an excellent camera phone. It is not quite as outstanding as a strong point-and-shoot camera though, it also one of the best camera phones we've seen. The camera features auto focus with a great of built-in shooting modes and features. There's touch focus so you can tap on the screen to aim where you like, face detection to keep faces sharp against the background, and a bright flash. The camera also has a very cool geo-tagging feature. Images weren't perfect, since the camera had trouble in harsh light, especially on bright sunlight.

This mobile phone also comes with a music player that can accommodate different types of file formats such as AAC, MP3, and MP4. Music quality is pretty good, whether using the Aino's speakers or headphones. The multimedia touch screen also offers a similarly simple radio feature. Most of all, The Sony Ericsson Aino supports 3G video calling which means the user can have a face to face call on their touch screen with other compatible 3G video calling contacts. The user can enjoy up to 1.7 hours video calling time form a fully charged battery. The Sony Ericsson Aino mobile phone has 55 MB space for internal memory, but you can bump this with a micro SD card up to 4 GB.

When it comes to connection, the Sony Ericsson Aino mobile phone supports 3G connectivity and HSDPA which can provide a smoother and faster browsing experience. There is Bluetooth technology so you can do data transfer easily. The only significant drawback is the absence of a 3.5mm headphone jack, which is a real failure in our eyes for a multimedia-based device. Ignoring this, the Aino has some positive points. For example, It is equipped with a decent suite of applications including Facebook, Weather, YouTube and GPS Navigation Tracker. It also has a navigational system in the form of A-GPS support. As well as a WAP 2.0 browser so you can browse your favorite websites when you need to or want to.

If you're looking for a complete multimedia service from your phone, then the Sony Ericsson Aino would be a worthy and good choice. With all entertainment services are well presented and easy to use whether at home or on the go, it can be considered as outstanding one.
Jerry Smith, the editor of http://www.mobilephoneonly.co.uk. An expert on mobile phone and an observer of UK telecommunication market. He writes reviews on latest mobile phones, and also suggests promotional deals and special offers from mobile phone retailers in UK.