Another Sony Ericsson handset which was previewed on the MCW held in Barcelona was Aino. This phone was hyped earlier as a PlayStation phone but nothing as such is clear to us. However the phone has good features and they are as follows-

    Size

• 104.0 x 50.0 x 15.5 mm
• 4.1 x 2.0 x 0.6 inches

    Weight

• 134.0 gm
• 4.7 oz

    Screen

• 432×240 pixel
• 16,777,216 color Capacitive TFT touch screen (limited)

    General
     2G Network

     GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

     3G Network
     HSDPA 850 / 900 / 2100

     HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 Aino (a) for Americas

    Memory

     Internal
     55 MB

     Card Slot     

      microSD (TransFlash), up to 32GB, 8GB included

    Data
     GPRS
     Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps

     HSCSD
     Yes

     EDGE
     Class 10, 236.8 kbps

     3G
     HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps

     WLAN
     Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, DLNA

     Bluetooth
     Yes, v2.0 with A2DP

     USB
     Yes, v2.0

    Camera- 8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels

    Camera Features-   

     · Auto Focus

     · Digital Zoom up to 16x

     · Face Detection

     · Geo-tagging

     · Photo feeds

     · Photo fix

     · Photo flash

     · Picture blogging

     · Touch focus

     · Video blogging

     · Video record @30fps

     · Video stabilizer

      No secondary camera

    Features
     Messaging
     SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email

     Browser
     WAP 2.0/HTML (NetFront 3.5), RSS reader

     Radio
     Stereo FM radio with RDS

     Games
     Yes, and downloadable

     Colors
     Obsidian Black, Luminous White

     GPS
     Yes, with A-GPS support; Wayfinder Navigator

     Java
     Yes, MIDP 2.0

     – Remote play for PlayStation 3
     – Google Maps 
     – Picture editor/blogging
     – YouTube & Facebook applications
     – SensMe

     Multimedia

    Music- MP3, AAC (Clear Bass and Clear Stereo technology)

     Walkman 3.0 UI

     Video- MP4, WMV, 3GP  (240×432)

    Battery
               Standard battery, Li-Po 1000 mAh

    2G Network

               Talk time-13 hours
               Standby-380 hours

     3G network-

               Talk time-4 hours 30 min             

               Standby-367 hours

               Video Call-1hour 40 minutes

The phone is a good combination of looks, music, video playback, browsing and many more. A wireless earphone is more welcomed. The main thing which adds a zing in this phone is that it’s a touch screen slider. The phone also has many new walkman backgrounds like a recorder, cd player and gramophones running in background. The phone has no portrait mode in now playing UI only landscape. However the resolution is somewhat strange and no secondary camera for video calling are few negatives about this phone. The touch interface is only available in media and camera and above all it’s the first capacitive touch screen phone from Sony Ericsson. After seeing Satio, Aino and Yari from Sony Ericsson we can say that Sony Ericsson is changing now.