Sony Ericsson Satio user reviews
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ImAlwaysRight 14 April 2010
Good: Camera
Bad: Symbian OS
Comment: Yet another phone that was let down by a awful OS, Android on the Satio as well as a capacitive touchscreen would have made this phone perfect.
AKH 3 March 2010
Good: Camera
Bad: Downloading Emails, no compass
Comment: I have had this phone for a few months now, at the beginning it was a pain but now that I'm used to it I would be lost without it! Obtaining apps is getting better all the time but realy you dont need any. It has been tested against the iPhone, better camera, GPS and playing videos. Downside;coming from the C905 which had no probs with emails the Satio is poor in this department. Again I have got used to not reading my emails until I get home. It is the best phone so far. Looking forward to the new X10.
nowbristol 7 January 2010
Good: camera
Bad: too bulky, crashes, freezes, no abiltity to mark photos to organise... just rubbish
Comment: After using Sony Erics for my last 4 phones i thought this would be great. I'm now on my second phone and await my 3rd which arrives tomorrow. The ability to scroll through predictive text eg bat to cat to aat etc works when it feels like. The phone continually freezing when typing messages on the net or text. The only way to reboot is to remove the battery and hope that it refires, which sometimes it does, more often doesn't. Adding pictures to MMS causing the phones to often freeze. The touch screen is slow to react. The auto rotate is slow or just doesn't work at all. The APPS store, when it works, is pitiful! don't even try to compare it to the iPhone. The phone is bulky and the lense cover just opens if you put it in your jeans pocket. The one good thing, the camera is good, quality is great. though unless you know what the symbols mean when editing it hard work!!! Personally, I can't wait to send the 3rd phone back, and finally get an iPhone !
nckweeks 15 December 2009
Good: High Quality Camera
Bad: Lack of headphone Jack
Comment: Having read some of the reviews, I'm not sure I agree with some of the critisisms. I've found the touch screen to work well. The big plus with this phone is the quality of the pictures it takes. On top of that the Music player is pretty good and I believe you can expand the memory stick upto 32Gb which is plenty.
I've used this phone for taking pictures and films on holiday, streaming music via Bluetooth to my car stereo, going online and of course the usual things a phone is used for. I've found it easy to use and although I fuss a bit about the lack of a headphone jack everything still works well. This phone's full of surprises and it seems I'm only just getting started with it after having it for a month now.
I didn't want to jump on the Apple bandwagon but I still wanted a bit of quality and this phone has delivered.
pux 7 December 2009
Good: The camera and all the sony ericssonized menus are superb additions to s60.
Bad: Would like more programs in the app shop!
Comment: This phone really kicks the lamas a**. :D
I really understand the designers at Sony ericsson. They got the S60 from Nokia and thought.... hmmm this is not very sexy. Like any great designer they found the most used features of the phone and totally revamped it!
Yes, they could have done more, but I guess there just wasn't time for that. The media center for example is a pure delight, something that Nokia could never have done. Just marvellous!
The camera - donät get me going on the camera. It is an utter delight to see some one creating such a simple to sue interface. Love it.
Now buying this phone will make you fall in love and therefor you perhaps as me will get a little dissapointed to see the app shopw playnowarena.com isn't containing too much for Satio. Come on developers out there! Gimme some apps!! Sony Ericsson will pay you!
Last but not least - the latest software update really increased performance of the phone and now it is even better.
DisloyalEarth 26 November 2009
Good: Touch screen is awesome :) works wonders for me and i don;t use the stylus,camera is brilliant! sat nav works fantastic! no lags as yet but im using a 16g memory car used about half that so far.
Bad: that you get some editor saying how hard it is to find apps on the Reviewed on: 15 October 2009 when the phone had only just come out tlk about patience. the iphone didnt have over a million apps str8 away give it time theres a lot more to come from this phone.
Comment: i think satio is one of the best th ings to come from sony Ericsson and where gonna see a lot more of this phone about in the next coming months.Had this phone for about two weeks have all the essential apps i need for free http://www.getjar.com thats an awesome website for apps so is play now areana for the Snaptu app (Description: Snaptu is a fast stylish suite of social networking and lifestyle services including Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, News from all major providers, Sports, Movies, Sudoku and much more..) . so people try giving this phone a chance and don't just listen to the negative review cause this phone is awesome!
retro75 18 November 2009
Good: a2dp play back is excellent! 12.1mega camera! SDHC memory, etc
Bad: little laggy - as are ALL touchscreen smart phone EVEN THE iPHONE!!!!
Comment: Having used the handset for a few days I have now become acustomed to the Symbian ways and flaws. Symbian is far from perfect but is a much happier Playland than WinMo - based on Winmo 6.0 that is! I shall knock my review down to pro's & con's as I prefer these types of reviews, short and sweet!
Pro's
Crystal clear display which is not too bad on smudging.
Design
Battery Life - for a touchscreen smart phone with a 100mh battery this phone amazes me! 2 days worth of use on A2DP bluetooth MP3 playback, some surfing and a number of calls and texts! (3g mainly disabled)
Camera - although can be a little blurry and slow to load, its easy to forget this is a MOBILE PHONE!
General Usability - some of the features are irritating but that is Symbian and not the phone! However making calls, which is confusing on some alternative phones is eay, as it email, texting, etc. Any standard function is easily figured out.
Cons
Laggy at times - camera particularly.
T9 texting - not my fav nut slowly gettig used to, not liking getting used to.
Web Browsing - after Safari on iPhone this is not good experience. Again once I get used to it....
Applications !- This is a MAJOR flaw or over sight! The Applications for this handset are LUDICROUSLY EXPENSIVE and vast majority seem to my eye to be UTTERLY POINTLESS! Would you pay £21 for 12 THEMES!!!??
Wi-Fi - signal strangth has left me a little disapointed, its on a par to the iphone! Given the N96 was great wi-fi this left me bamboozled as v5 Symbian shouldhave improved this you would have thought!
Over the piece I would say an 8 is fair if a smidge high scoring. However from reading(and owning for a period of time) iphone 3G I feel an 8 is reflective of this handset.
The iPhone is NOT all it is cracked up to be, user friendly YES YES YES but it is as laggy as any other handset and the wi-fi experience is laughable!
NOTE - do not judge this phoen to quickly! I nearly did that and I am now glad I stuck with it!!!! Once I can debrand the software this handset has massive potential!
malco 15 November 2009
Good: Amazing camera
Bad: No 3.5mm headphone socket, resistive touch screen, dated OS and GUI
Comment: 1) If you are planning on using your phone as a portable internet device, there are much better options out there, HTC Hero, iPhone etc. However the browser on the Satio is perfectly fine for occasional checking of Facebook and football results.
2) Resitive touch screen is not brilliant but once again I have found typing text msgs and emails on it to be reasonable.
3) Main reason for getting this phone is for the camera, end of. 12mp is overkill (I have it set to 9mp as it is in widescreen format and the camera operation is a bit smoother given the smaller file size - about 2mb) and given the quality of the camera lens that they can fit in a phone it won't ever be a match for a decent dedicated camera. But it compares well to a standard point and shoot digital camera and basically puts all other camera phones to shame with its clarity, xenon flash and auto focus with face detection etc.
As long as you know you are getting a phone which has a great camera but does not match up to the iphone GUI and apps then you won't be disappointed.
Incidentally - if you are getting this phone on Orange, it comes with a 8gb card (which the Orange employee told me over the phone that it doesn't) a TV out cable, headphone adaptor so you can plug a 3.5mm headphone but the usual bits.
PaulB 25 October 2009
Good: the camera is WOW for a mobile
Bad: where do i start!
Comment: Well i had been waiting for this phone for a long long time and all the reviews pre-release where that this phone is amazing however, now that i have my hands on it, im sending it back!
I've been a fan of Sony Ericsson for years now, they have always produced phones that had the right balance in all areas, camera, audio, navigation, video play etc etc but the Satio falls short on a lot of those "cool little features" and navigation.
So where to start, I think the navigation was the biggest let down. The Symbian OS isn’t what its all cracked up to be. The main part of a mobile is to text and call. On the Satio, this is a painful process. Unlike past SE phones, you have to select the person, then select the number, rather than being able to set default numbers. Typing out a message was slow, you have the three options, mini qwerty keyboard which is too mini!! Full screen qwerty keyboard but do you really what to have the phone horizontal and use both hands just to text? Or classic phone stile, which is a let down. Once you finish typing out your message, you press the arrow at the top of the screen then press the "button" at the bottom of the screen to send! why couldn’t these buttons be closer together?
I tried to send a text to 6 people but after 3 minutes of selecting numbers I gave up. When you get a text, you don’t find out who it is off until you open it! unlike past SE phones, there is no list of recent people you have texted to quickly jump to.
Onto the cool little features. With my SE K850i, when im playing music and the keypad is locked, I can still change the volume and track using the camera zoom buttons, the Satio doesn’t let you do that, so i have to get the phone out of my pocket, unlock the keypad and then change volume or track. I know that doesn’t sound like much but its one of those little annoying things with the Satio.
Another one of those little annoying things was sorting out a playlist for music. Since i waited for the phone, i had already organised my music into playlists. On the satio, you have to go through all your music and select each track/artist/album but you cannot select a folder. On my old phone (SE K850i) you can just mark a folder of all your tracks.
When you select your ringtone, you get a list of every track that’s on the phone, so with that 8gb card, that can be a lot of tracks to scroll to the one you want.
Do you like to have a different alarm tune depending on what your getting up for? well don’t get the satio if you do! SE K850i lets you have different tunes for different alarms but on the Satio, one tune for all alarms, just another one of those small features I hoped SE would keep.
With selecting items in the menus i found this unpredictable as sometimes you have to double tap the item, others its a single tap.
When viewing your pictures make sure you only have a few on there! If like me, you use the phone as a camera, you end up with loads of pictures on there so you put them into folders. Well you don’t get to see thumbnails of photos when going through the menu way. The only way you see thumbnail is in the pictures way and this is very slow and one big list!
the camera is impressive but for full wide screen picture taking, you don’t get the full 12.1, you only get 9mp. the functions on the camera/video are brilliant and has everything you want from a phone camera with a few little extras in there.
The worst thing for me about the Satio is the scrollbar. I am left handed and when i scroll i cannot see where am scrolling to! Yes you can sort of scroll in the middle of the screen but it jumps so fast, you miss what you were searching for.
The outside design of it makes the phone look slim and in line with other touch screens but hold it for a period of time and it will slip out of your hand.
Overall i am very disappointed with the phone. The touch screen is one of the best out there but let down by the navigation to do anything which is slow and pain