Review: Sony Ericsson Aino U10i Black

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“Get all the entertainment you’ve ever craved on the beautifully crafted Sony Ericsson Aino™ phone. Designed to match your life, you can pack the Aino™ phone full of your favourite music, photos, films and podcasts. Then take your mobile entertainment everywhere you go to enjoy on its stunning 3” touch screen.”

SALES PACKAGE:
BLUETOOH HEADSET
SONY ERICSSON AINO (Black)
DOCKING STATION
USB AC CHARGER
USB CABLE
8GB MEMORY CARD
Users' Guide
Warranty Card


I like the design of this black Aino dont prefer the white one, as this black give a more elegant manly feel. Aino comes with a bluetooth headset which looks like black colour too but actually its dark metallic blue so is the side trimming of the phone, when you take a close enough look at it.

The best part of this phone package is that it comes with a docking station that enable you to charge your phone and bluetooth headset, it just look so good on your desk, and it also add as a desktop clock and alarm clock too.
It would be perfect if sony ericsson can be more hardworking and provide software and turning it to a digital photo frame and a radio while its being docked.


Front view


Side view: charging port

Bottom view: land yard opening and speaker


Side view: camera button and volume key

Top view: key lock button




Back view: 8.1 MP camera with LED flash







Slide up back view, you can see the metal backing, feels very quality, and durable.


The back battery cover of Aino feels really fragile you can feel the softness of the plastic once you removed it


The keypad to me it fine, but if your finger is too big you may have problem as the control keys are truely pretty small




Overall it feels pretty good on my had, the screen is pretty big for a normal phone, I call it a normal phone is because the touch screen functions are limited.


When you slide up the phone you have to control the interface using your keypad, and as you can see the UI is the usual Sony Ericsson phone UI.
The disadvantage is that I have feel it pretty laggy especially when you are searching through your contacts list.


Aino comes with quite a number of application like Facebook, Youtube, AccuWeather, Google Map, etc.

Its best that your download Opera mini (above) from their website. After you had installed Opera mini you will be surprise that it enable you to use the Aino touch screen function while browsing the web while the default browser does not its definitely much better than the default browser.




Threaded message, thats really cool and yes it come default with the phone. you can chose to use the standard messaging interface or the threaded format (its is call “conversations” in the phone)


Digital Clock view


Media touch screen interface


Aino comes with 8.1 MP camera with LED flash, but surprisingly there are not much functions in Aino as compare to other Sony Ericsson Cyber Shots mobile phones, pretty disappointing. The quality is fair but the respond of the camera is pretty fast, no option to change or silent the camera sound.

The best part of the camera which I like best is point to shoot or touch focus, just touch anywhere on the touch screen which you want the camera to focus the camera will auto focus it and take the shot for you.

In conclusion, if you look at Aino as a good music phone with a good camera then you will certainly be very happy with all the functions it provide to you. As it come with WiFi and GPS. The connection of WiFi is very good as it will not connect to 3G automatically once you are connected to WiFi.

But if you are like me who has a higher expectation on it as Sony Ericsson had position it to be a multimedia entertainment mobile device, I must say I expect a faster device, there is no MSN Live, cannot listen to radio while docking, no digital frame functions, not much free downloads at Play Now, limited touch screen functions, camera functions are too limited.

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Review: Nokia N97 mini

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Nokia N97 mini said to be an improvement (at least in its size) over Nokia N97.By now I believe there are already many Nokia N97, N97 mini users over and Symbian OS S60 5th Edition users.

Standard Sales Package

Nokia N97 mini mobile computer
Nokia Battery (BL-4D)
Nokia High-Efficiency Charger (AC-10)
Nokia Connectivity Cable (CA-101)
Nokia Music Headset (WH-701)
User GuideOvi
Suite DVD 1.1

Front View with mean button, call answer and end call key

The built of the phone feels quality, the plastic used does not give a cheapo feeling, and the battery cover, menu button and the side are made of metal, really like the looks and feel of this phone (only this colour garnet as this colour gives a more elegant feel) I don’t like black colour model.


Reel View

Side view with camera button (left) and volume button (right)

Top view with 3.5 mm headphone jack and power button

Side view with micro usb port and phone lock button


QWERTY Keyboard View


I am surprise by the smooth slider its really smooth as compare to the Nokia N97 as it not as smooth and always catches my fingers while closing, mini does not :)



The QWERTY keys are relatively small but its well spread out, thus its still pretty acceptable maybe not the best, if its any bigger its will end up a N97 and not a mini


Back view with screen slide up

Main camera
5 megapixel with Carl Zeiss optics
Take high-quality 16:9 videos
Video capture in MPEG-4 up to VGA at 30 fps
Video clip length: up to 90 minutes

Camera is pretty cool, macro shots are good better than mine Casio 5.0MP camera which I always use to take pictures for this blog, yes surprisingly. N97 mini night shots are also acceptable but I believe its not the best in the market, but the respond of the Nokia N97 mini is pretty alright can accept it, but seem like there is no way to off the camera sound.


The size of this phone feel really good on my hand I am able to access to all the buttons with one hand. The screen is good 16 million colour even after I set the display back light to the lowest its still very clear and sharp.


The UI is very easy to customize maybe its due to there are not much option available for us to play around haha… Yes only one screen available for us to play with, the upcoming Symbian ^3 will be able to have multiple home screens.
The touch screen is pretty cool too it is relatively responsive and fast not much lag. if you want to compare with iPhone, iPhone is the winner in this area still.


Lets take a look at the texting (messaging) option. It provide a good big screen to read our text message, thats great!


I am not a big fan of QWERTY keyboard as I prefer to text with one hand and not two! Therefore a good old alphanumeric keypad with T9 support is a must have for me, fortunately this phone does provide that. Great!


And it also comes with handwriting option for texting. Hmmm… not so important to me, I dont think I use that much.


Alphanumeric keypad in landscape mode


QWERTY option for those who prefer two hand texting


Applications are pretty standard, I have to highlight refreshing the Music Player library can be slow it does not make sense when a S40 phone can update faster than a S60 phone… Maybe there are snails in the phone memory


It comes with that social networking application, Nokia Map, Weather info, News, Ovi store, Email Setup, etc… but no Windows MSN, anyway most application can be downloaded from Ovi store online, mostly free but good ones you will have to buy them.

In conclusion, Nokia N97 mini is a good phone to have, touch screen is good, its built is quality, its has all the connection you needs like WiFi, HSDPA 3.5G and Bluetooth. Screen is clear and sharp, its speakers are one of the loudest in the market place, battery life is pretty acceptable for normal usage else continue usage on web surfing will only last 3-5 hrs depend on the brightness of the screen. Camera is good and it come with memory slot. Web surfing with this phone is normal cos screen not big enough, but if you dont mind it then its as you can really surf HTML web sites, loading of the pages are fast (depend upon the network you are using), it handle the website pretty well double tap on the screen to zoom in and out.

The disadvantages will be slow music library refresh, sometime the phone respond slow when 5 or 6 application running at the background, require to restart your phone due to application not responding. But so far I have not encounter the White Screen Of Death (WSOD) which some users had encountered. I am using firmware 11.0.045 I had unbrand my phone in order to update this, some user had checked out my Unbranding write up Here and reply that it had stopped he phone from the encounter of WSOD! Symbian S60 had came a long way and Nokia is coming up with new firmware to fix the bugs (and snail) hope they will come up with more solution to make this phone super stable!

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Nokia N97 mini Firmware 11.0.0.45 and Unbranding

Nokia N97 mini Firmware 11.0.0.45 and Unbranding

Improvement on Map, Music Player, Bugs Fix, etc...

I have found that Nokia N97 mini had already came out with a new firmware updates to improve on the performance of the phone but many users are not able to update their phone I am one of those users too. Most (if not all) users who obtained their phone from Singapore operators (Singtel, M1 or StarHub) will not be able to update their Nokia N97 mini due to product code in their phone does not allow Nokia Software Updater (NSU) to perform update from Ver 10 to Ver 11 (lazy operators). How now? In this case you have to Debranding (or sometime call Unbranding) your Nokia device by changing your device product code, thus NSU will not longer sees your phone as an operator set but a default Nokia set where you are allow to update to the latest firmware.

How to change the product code?

1. Unbranded Product Code Here

2. Nemesis Service Suite (NSS) Here

After you had changed your product code just update your phone firmware as per normal through Nokia Software Updater.

The Actual Procedure (by nokia.nigelcoldwell)

Assuming that all of the above has been downloaded and installed...

• Backup your Data!!!! Note the pcsuite and other nokia backup solutions will regard your unbranded handset as different from your branded one. so you will only be able to restore the data that you could to another handset, calendar, contacts, bookmarks etc. You will have to change the settings yourself. More recent phones have UDP (user data preservation,) and may well retain the user data, but you should still backup.
• Exit the PC Suite, (completly including the tray app,) if it's still running
• Connect your phone (if you haven't done this before you will have to wait for the drivers to install)
• Launch NSS
• Click 'Scan for new device', upper right of window
• Click 'Phone Info' then 'Scan'

• Enter the new product code discussed below
• Check 'Enable'
• Click 'Write'
• The phone's product code is now changed, it only takes a second and there is no note to say it is done.
• You may confirm this by reconnecting to NSS

You now simply have to close the open programmes and run the NSU, i've not included instructions on running the NSU because it is fairly straight forward, though it is worth mentioning that the process takes about half an hour and is quite power intensive so the phone will need to be fully charge, or connected to the mains. When the phone reboots it will have the new, unbranded firmware!!!

Phones such as the N97 and 5800 may fail to boot at this stage. I believe this is because the UDP is trying to apply the settings from the old firmware to the new firmware. This may not be possible as the phones are now different. This is expected and no reason to be alarmed. Should this happen it can be fixed easily using the method described below.

You can now restore your data.

For More Info Please Refer to the following sources:

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