TechRadar posted a review of the newest Yari. The ‘high end pre-pay, low end contract’ Yari is, in one phrase, a gaming device. We ca say, to some extent, a replacement of PSP cum phone maybe?
Remembering its promise of combining the best of both its brands walkman and cybershot.. Yari sports a good 5 MP camera and nice music playback.
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. Continue reading »
Yari
Twist, tilt, turn, smash – gesture gaming is here
* Gesture and motion gaming for action on and off the screen
* A/B buttons – gaming shortcut keys
* Gaming carousel gives direct access to your games from the desktop
* State-of-the art music player and stereo speakers for easy listening
* Music call – one button press to share your favourite tracks while you talk
* 5.0 mega pixel camera – easily upload images to your web album
* Send your location by SMS
To enhance your gaming experience Yari comes complete with the EC500 phone stand. The phone stand is small and portable and comes with an integrated keyring which makes it easy to carry thereby ensuring that you never miss an opportunity to play to your heart’s content. To pump up the volume while on the move use the Outdoor Wireless Speaker MS500 – small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, and so light it can be taken anywhere and everywhere.
Talking about OLED Walkmans in a Sony Ericsson forum is really dangerous. You run a risk of overdoing it.
Basic features like auto rotate between landscape and portrait mode have been removed. There’s no multi-gesture for moving around the menu system. There’s an image gallery but zooming in and out isn’t very intuitive. Moving between songs is relatively easy (see video / image below). There’s a web-browser from Access, and well, YouTube too.
The build quality is top notch, and it really hits the sweet spot between being sturdy and not too heavy. There’s no mistaking that this is a serious piece of kit when picking it up, and even the buttons are rock solid.
The 3-inch OLED display is spacious enough, yet the overall player is plenty small to sneak into tight spaces without causing too much fuss.
Despite appearing somewhat chintzy in the press shots, the look and feel in person really impresses. The texture adds a sense of security / grip when holding it, and it definitely acts as a differentiator from all the other flat-faced PMPs out there.
One can appreciate the standard 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, but Sony connector at the bottom should have been instead a mini-USB connector! One will be forced to carry around a specialized cable
(à la Apple’s dock-connecting iPod) if you plan on charging it or adding / removing files via a computer. The built-in Noise Canceling switch is a welcome extra, though in our testing, we didn’t notice a difference with it on or off.
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