Sony Ericsson Aino is a

touch screen A touchscreen or touch screen is the assembly of both an input ('touch panel') and output ('display') device. The touch panel is normally layered on the top of an electronic visual display of an information processing system. The display is ofte ...

based slider mobile phone. It has a multimedia

PlayStation 3 The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The successor to the PlayStation 2, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November ...

-inspired touch menu (like

XrossMediaBar The XrossMediaBar (pronounced "cross-media bar" and officially abbreviated as XMB) is a graphical user interface developed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The interface features icons that are spread horizontally across the screen. Navigation m ...

), a large touchscreen, VGA@30 FPS

video recording Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) systems ...

. The screen is touch-enabled but only in the multimedia part of the menu and the camera interface. Some third party applications like Opera-Mini also support the touch screen interface. It also has an 8.1-megapixel camera. The Aino uses NetFront 3.5 web browser for internet connectivity.

Technical specifications

* Model: U10i * General: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 850/900/2100, GPRS/EDGE class 10,

HSDPA High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) is an amalgamation of two mobile protocols—High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA)—that extends and improves the performance of existing 3G mobile telecommunic ...

7.2 Mbit/s, No

HSUPA High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) is an amalgamation of two mobile protocols—High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA)—that extends and improves the performance of existing 3G mobile telecommunic ...

* Form factor: Touchscreen* slider * Dimensions: 104 × 50 × 15.5 mm, 134 g * Display: 3-inch 16M color LED display, 240 × 432 pixel resolution * Memory: 55 MB integrated memory,

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microSD card slot (up to 32 GB) * Operating system: Java Platform 8 (also known as A200 platform), running at 200 MHz * UI: Proprietary Flash-based UI * Still camera: 8-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, touch focus, geo-tagging,

face detection Face detection is a computer technology being used in a variety of applications that identifies human faces in digital images. Face detection also refers to the psychological process by which humans locate and attend to faces in a visual scene. ...

, smile detection,

image stabilizer An image is a visual representation of something. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or somehow otherwise feed into the visual system to convey information. An image can be an artifact, such as a photograph or other two-dimensiona ...

, smart contrast * Video recording: VGA video recording at 30 frame/s * Connectivity: Wi-Fi,

Bluetooth 2 Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances and building personal area networks (PANs). In the most widely used mode, transmission power is limit ...

.0 with A2DP,

GPS receiver A satellite navigation device (satnav device) is a user equipment that uses one or more of several global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) to calculate the device's geographical position and provide navigational advice. Depending on the ...

with

A-GPS Assisted GNSS (A-GNSS) is a GNSS augmentation system that often significantly improves the startup performance—i.e., time-to-first-fix (TTFF)—of a global navigation satellite system (GNSS). A-GNSS works by providing the necessary data to the ...

support * Misc: Partial touchscreen functionality, accelerometer for screen auto rotate, FM radio with RDS, Remote Play for PlayStation 3 * Battery: 1000 mAh battery Touchscreen features are only accessible in with certain features of the phone.

Features

Camera

* Camera - 8.1-megapixel *

Digital zoom Digital zoom is a method of decreasing the precise angle of view of a digital photograph or video image. It is accomplished by cropping an image down to an area with the same aspect ratio as the original, and scaling the image up to the dimen ...

- up to 16x * Photo feeds * Geo tagging * Video stabiliser * Video recording * Red-eye reduction * Video blogging * Picture blogging * Photo flash * Image stabiliser * Photo fix * BestPic * Face detection * Touch focus * Auto focus

Connectivity

* aGPS * Bluetooth technology * DLNA Certified *

Google Maps Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets ( Street View), real-time traffic conditions, and rou ...

* Modem *

PictBridge PictBridge is a historical computing industry standard introduced in 2003 from the Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) for direct printing. It allows images to be printed directly from digital cameras to a printer, without having to con ...

* Remote Play * Synchronisation * USB mass storage * USB support * WiFi

Communication

* Video calling (Main camera) *

Vibrating Alert A vibrating alert is a feature of communications devices to notify the user of an incoming connection or message. It is particularly common on mobile phones and pagers and usually supplements the ring tone. Most 21st-century mobile phones are fit ...

* Bluetooth wireless headset * Polyphonic ringtones

Internet

Web feed On the World Wide Web, a web feed (or news feed) is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors ''syndicate'' a web feed, thereby allowing users to ''subscribe'' a channel to it by adding the feed ...

s * WAP 2.0 XHTML

Entertainment

* Radio - FM radio with RDS * Tracker * Walk Mate * Video viewing *

Video streaming Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos without a traditional video playback device and the constraints of a typical static broadcasting schedule. In the 20th century, broadcasting in the form of o ...

* Java * Motion gaming * 3D games * Media

Music

* Music tones - MP3, AAC * TrackID * Shake control *

SensMe SensMe is a proprietary music mood and tempo detection system created by Sony Corporation, and employed in numerous Sony branded products, including in some Walkman digital music players, the Media Go application, the PlayStation Portable, and Sony ...

* PlayNow * Stereo speakers * Bluetooth stereo (A2DP) *

Album art An album cover (also referred to as album art) is the front packaging art of a commercially released studio album or other audio recordings. The term can refer to either the printed paperboard covers typically used to package sets of and 78-rpm ...

* Clear stereo * Clear bass * Media Player

Remote Play

Like the

Sony PSP The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was first released in Japan on December 12, 2004, in North America on March 24, 2005, and in PAL regions on September 1, 2005, ...

, the Aino features

connectivity, called '' Remote Play''. This allows the phone to be able to turn the PS3 on from anywhere in the world and stream its media files. This is the first phone to implement this, as it was previously only available on PlayStation Portable.

External links

Official website
{{Sony Ericsson phones Aino Mobile phones introduced in 2009