Weight

- 115.0 gr
- 4.1 oz

In case you are wondering why this phone looks so familiar, then let me tell you that SOny Ericsson Kita is a special version of Sony Ericsson Yari which got its press release a few weeks back.  The transformation from “Yari” to “Kito” is because “Yari” in the Filipino language has a really bad reputation!

And we can conclude that Kita, like Yari (which failed to attract noise) is also a gaming phone with specially dedicated gaming keys!

Kita is expected to be released in September 2009.

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How ever the game is available for those who live in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Although other countries will be launched aswell. There are Four language’s present which are English,Danish,Norweigen and swedish, so come on and enjoy the New Game of football by sony ericsson. And Enjoy, Btw this game is addictive. I also love the sound effect’s and you need to registeer aswell. Its  AMAZING:D.

The website to the game is: http://www.sekickoff.com/

Also if you would like to check more information out the sony ericsson insider’s webiste you can, how ever its only in swedish im afraid, the UK or other countries except Denmark,Norway and Sweden are able to see information about Sony Ericsson’s Kickoff.

The website as follows : http://www.sonyericsson.com/retail/index.aspx?locale=se-sv

The offical launch of this campaignto the public and will be on the 12th of August.

Stay Tuned for more information.

Reports are suggesting that Sony will start work on an iPhone conquering “cellphone/game gear hybrid” as early as next month.

Reports and rumours of a Sony gaming phone are nothing new. Last month Sony Ericsson president Hideki Komiyama admitted that a PlayStation mobile “could happen.”

Now Japan’s Nikkei business daily is reporting that work on “a new product that combines functions of its portable game player and Sony Ericsson’s mobile phones” will start next month.

If such device does go ahead it’s likely to feature its own app store, like Apple’s after Sony earlier paved the way for non-gaming PSP applications.

 
Busy people who missed out on their favorite hit movies or television series can watch these anytime and anywhere with the use of their Satio phone.
 
“Currently, we offer blockbuster movies, music videos and games. Basically, we have the option for the consumers to choose from a library to download three free of charge,” Ishizuka said.
 
Peter Ang, Sony Ericsson’s Vice President, Marketing Asia Pacific Region said that the Satio can get access to the internet through WIFI and 3G network.
 
“You can access to the internet very easily just one click and you can get into that,” he said.
 
Ang added that Satio will be made available in the early part of the fourth quarter in the home region.
 
Sony Ericsson Product Planner Maiko Ishida said that experiences and lessons learned from consumers’ feedback from the walkman and cyber-shot phones have been combined into the Satio.
 
“We have gathered all of the entertainment unlimited experiences that we have gained from the past cyber-shot phone. So, face detection, yes it’s there. Smile detector and the panorama, Bestpic, its all there. Everything that we have gained from the previous cyber-shot is in here,” said Ishida.
 
Ishida demonstrated to the press some of the features of the touchscreen phone. She also showed photos she personally took using her 12.1 megapixel Satio.
 
“So we have worked very closely [with Sony] to get the quality of the pictures. We also have this Xenon flash which allows you to take very bright pictures,” she said.
 
The Satio, she said, is based on an open platform, Symbian, allowing its users “great freedom to download zillions of applications”.
 
Satio is also the first Sony Ericsson phone to offer ninth High Definition (nHD) gaming that gives its users the best in mobile High Definition TV.
 
The Satio phone which will be available in three colors—black, silver and Bordeaux –also comes bundled with an expandable 8-gig card to store more movies.
 
The Satio also comes with the popular Asphalt Road and Prince of Persia games available in nHD format; a choice of three movie titles from a selection of more than 50 blockbuster movies; and a pick of three music videos from a library of up to 300.
 
The extensive content library of downloadable games, movies, music videos and latest tracks are exclusive for Asia Pacific consumers only.

Dubbed “Idou” when it was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress expo in Barcelona earlier this year, the Swedish-Japanese giant confirmed last month it would market the device globally as “Satio”.

Satio is believed to be the world’s first 12MP cellular handset, and according to dealers, would hit the UAE market in October. Sony Ericsson has, however, only confirmed “early Q4″ as its release date in the Emirates. Meanwhile, tech websites reported last week that rival Samsung has also announced a 12MP phone dubbed the Samsung M8910 Pixon12.

Weighing around 126gm, the quad band Satio has 3G capabilities and is a full-touchscreen smartphone with a 3.5-inch display and GPS. The first model in a new series of entertainment phones from Sony Ericsson this year, the handset is being marketed as a device capable of providing “unlimited entertainment” including a music player, e-mail and messaging, Bluetooth, PC syncing, USB mass storage and a personal organiser among others, powered by the Symbian operating system.

The handset’s camera is also equipped with powerful features, according to the manufacturers, including face detection, a staggering 16x digital zoom, picture blogging, red-eye reduction and touch capture. Measuring 112x55x13.3mm, it will come with a 128MB on board memory with a microSD memory card support. The Satio will be available in the UAE and other key markets in three colours: black, silver and bordeaux.

Dealers in the UAE would not, however, specify the expected price of the phone, saying it could range between Dh2,000 and Dh4,000. The Satio is one of three new high-end touchphones to be launched by Sony Ericsson in the next few months – the other two being the Aino, which lets users remotely access their PlayStations, and the Yari, which features gesture gaming.

“Imagine a phone with a 12.1MP camera. It is the world’s first and I am sure most people would covet this handset,” says Musbah Alhmoud, a self-confessed Sony Ericsson loyalist.

“But it is not just the camera. The phone is equipped with massive entertainment capabilities and other features, including for business.”

Mobile phone dealers in the capital say the Satio would give a strong push to Sony Ericsson’s campaign to defend its market share in the UAE and other countries, noting that the company has stepped up its promotion drive in the past two years with a barrage of sophisticated handsets and increased promotional campaigns and celebrity endorsements.

“Sony Ericsson spends more than all other mobile phone makers on promotion campaigns in the Middle East,” says Abdul Monem Al Hariri, sales manager at Golden Crown, one of the largest mobile phone dealers in the capital.

“I think the company might be feeling the pinch of growing competition here and worldwide and wants to defend its share.

I feel that what they are spending is paying off as the company is now trailing the market leader Nokia of Finland.

“Of every 10 mobiles, we sell six Nokias and three Sony Ericssons,” he adds.

Sony Ericsson was among the top three mobile phone makers a few years ago and its market share had steadily grown before it began to slip with the entry of many new manufacturers, mostly from China and the development of advanced handsets by other key mobile phone makers, mainly Nokia and Samsung.

In the first quarter of 2009, Sony Ericsson sold around 14.4 million mobile handsets compared with nearly 22 million phones in the same period last year. The decline depressed its market share to 5.4 from 7.5 per cent, according to figures by tech researcher Gartner.

In contrast, Samsung’s sales increased to 51.3 million handsets from 42.3 million in the same period, boosting its market share to 19.1 from 14.4 per cent and allowing it to maintain its position as the second largest after Nokia.

Despite a sharp fall in Nokia’s sales to 97.3 million handsets from 115.1 million, the Finnish giant retained its top position in the list of mobile phone makers. But its market share slipped to 36.2 from 39.1 per cent.

LG Electronic, the second biggest mobile phone maker in South Korea, is the third largest mobile phone manufacturer in the first quarter of 2009 with a market share of 9.9 per cent. Motorola came fourth with a share of 6.2 per cent.

Yari Previews

Satio Preview

Aino Preview

EnJoy!!!

Testing Out the Yari Phone by Sony Ericsson.

Sony Ericsson Satio example video from Mobiwoo on Vimeo.

The interactive home screen and synchronises itself with the gaming carousel(start it via applications) and runs in the background.

And when we day runs in the background, we mean it, as the little gaming icons sit happily in the faded distance on the home screen, ready to pop back up to life whenever you need them.

And the connectivity is what Sony Ericsson hopes will make the difference with the Yari, as the idea is you can easily scroll up and down the different gaming types as well as check out what games are proving popular downloads on an easily accessible chart.

This phone is actually quite confusing to hold in the hand. It feels quite light and almost plasticky, but weirdly not in a bad way, and also the range of functions on hand felt plentiful.

Knocking the pleasant-to-touch navigation wheel upwards started the music player, left and right were messaging and Bluetooth, with down activating the contacts (although these are customisable) and the whole think slid up and down with a nice action.

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