Sony Ericsson Aino is touch screen

Touchscreen

A touchscreen is an electronic visual display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area. The term generally refers to touching the display of the device with a finger or hand. Touchscreens can also sense other passive objects, such as a stylus...

 based slider phone. It has a multimedia PS3-inspired touch menu, a large 3 inches (76.2 mm) touchscreen, VGA@30 frame/s video recording

Video

Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...

. The 3 inches (76.2 mm) 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.

Technical specifications

• Model: U10i
• General: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 850/900/2100, GPRS/EDGE class 10, HSDPA
  High-Speed Downlink Packet Access
  High-Speed Downlink Packet Access is an enhanced 3G mobile telephony communications protocol in the High-Speed Packet Access family, also dubbed 3.5G, 3G+ or turbo 3G, which allows networks based on Universal Mobile Telecommunications System to have higher data transfer speeds and capacity...
  
   7.2 Mbit/s, No HSUPA
  High-Speed Uplink Packet Access
  High-Speed Uplink Packet Access is a 3G mobile telephony protocol in the HSPA family with up-link speeds up to 5.76 Mbit/s. The name HSUPA was created by Nokia...
  
  
• Form factor: Touchscreen* slider
• Dimensions: 104 × 50 × 15.5 mm, 134 g
• Display: 3-inch 16M color LED display, 240 × 432 pixel resolution
• Memory: 55MB integrated memory, hot-swappable
  Hot swapping
  Hot swapping and hot plugging are terms used to describe the functions of replacing computer system components without shutting down the system...
  
   microSD card slot (up to 32GB)
• Operating system: Java Platform 8
  Sony Ericsson Java Platform
  The Sony Ericsson Java Platform is a set of profiles describing particular Sony Ericsson Java implementation. It was designed to help developers to focus on a platform rather than on a variety of different product names. Two platform branches exist, supporting Symbian and non-Symbian based phones...
  
   (also known as A200 platform)
• UI: Proprietary Flash-based UI
• Still camera: 8 megapixel autofocus camera
  Autofocus
  An autofocus optical system uses a sensor, a control system and a motor to focus fully automatic or on a manually selected point or area. An electronic rangefinder has a display instead of the motor; the adjustment of the optical system has to be done manually until indication...
  
   with LED flash, touch focus, geo-tagging, face detection
  Face detection
  Face detection is a computer technology that determines the locations and sizes of human faces in arbitrary images. It detects facial features and ignores anything else, such as buildings, trees and bodies....
  
  , smile detection, image stabilizer
  Image stabilization
  Image stabilization is a family of techniques used to reduce blurring associated with the motion of a camera during exposure. Specifically, it compensates for pan and tilt of a camera or other imaging device. It is used in image-stabilized binoculars, still and video cameras, and astronomical...
  
  , smart contrast
• Video recording: VGA video recording at 30 frame/s
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2
  Bluetooth
  Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...
  
  .0 with A2DP, GPS receiver with A-GPS
  Assisted GPS
  Assisted GPS, generally abbreviated as A-GPS or aGPS, is a system which can, under certain conditions, improve the startup performance, or time-to-first-fix of a GPS satellite-based positioning system. It is used extensively with GPS-capable cellular phones as its development was accelerated by...
  
   support
• Misc: Partial touchscreen functionality, accelerometer for screen auto rotate, FM radio
  FM broadcasting
  FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...
  
   with RDS, Remote Play for PlayStation 3
• Battery: 1000 mAh battery

Touchscreen features are only accessible in with certain features of the phone.
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Camera

• Camera - 8.1 megapixel
• Digital Zoom
  Digital zoom
  Digital zoom is a method of decreasing the apparent angle of view of a digital photographic or video image. Digital zoom is accomplished by cropping an image down to a centered area with the same aspect ratio as the original, and usually also interpolating the result back up to the pixel...
  
   - 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
  Google Maps is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free , that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API...
  
  
• Modem
• PictBridge
  PictBridge
  PictBridge is an industry standard introduced in 2003 from the Camera & Imaging Products Association for direct printing. It allows images to be printed directly from digital cameras to a printer, without having to connect the camera to a computer. Its formal name is . CIPA DC-001-2003 Rev...
  
  
• Remote Play
  Remote Play
  Remote Play is a feature on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable which allows a PlayStation Portable user to interact with their PlayStation 3's Xross Media Bar...
  
  
• Synchronisation
• USB mass storage
• USB support
• WiFi

Communication

• Video calling (Main camera)
• Vibrating Alert
  Vibrating alert
  A vibrating alert is a feature of communications devices to notify the user of an incoming connection. It is particularly common on mobile phones and pagers and usually supplements the ring tone....
  
  
• Bluetooth wireless headset
• Polyphonic ringtones

Entertainment

• Radio - FM radio with RDS
• Tracker
• Walk Mate
• Video viewing
• Video streaming
  Streaming media
  Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider.The term "presented" is used in this article in a general sense that includes audio or video playback. The name refers to the delivery method of the medium rather...
  
  
• Java
• Motion gaming
• 3D games
• Media

Music

• Music tones - MP3, AAC
• TrackID
• Shake control
• SensMe
  SensMe
  SensMe is a proprietary music mood and tempo detection system created by Sony Corporation, and employed in numerous Sony branded products, most notably the Walkman MP3/MP4 players , Media Go, PlayStation Portable, and Sony Ericsson phone series, .-Technical specifications:SensMe works by mapping...
  
  
• PlayNow
• Stereo speakers
• Bluetooth stereo (A2DP)
• Album art
  Album cover
  An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album. The term can refer to either the printed cardboard covers typically used to package sets of 10" and 12" 78 rpm records, single and sets of 12" LPs, sets of 45 rpm records , or the front-facing...
  
  
• Clear stereo
• Clear bass
• Media Player

Remote Play

Like the Sony PSP

PlayStation Portable

The is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Corporation Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on , 2004, at a Sony press conference before E3 2004...

, the Aino features PlayStation 3

PlayStation 3

The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

 connectivity, called Remote Play

Remote Play

Remote Play is a feature on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable which allows a PlayStation Portable user to interact with their PlayStation 3's Xross Media Bar...

. 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