Welcome to the world of IDOU*

First came the iPhone and now the killers; iPhone killers

NOW the official name is SATIO

Fasten your sit belts we are entering into the world of 12 MEGA Pixel(S).

The Idou* (pronounced as "I do"). The word Idou in Japanese means "a change" and Sony itself is a Japanese company. This was announced by Sony Ericsson at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on the 15th of February 2009. It has been labelled as the company's iPhone killer. If very thing goes perfectly, this will be available in stores after JUNE or JULY 2009.

The Sony Ericsson’s Idou* is announced to be the manufacturer’s first all-in-one device. This device will definitely create as much hype as the XPERIA X1 did. Not only it is the first 12 megapixel GSM camera phone, but uses Walkman® software and Cyber-Shot™ technology to produce snaps that you could expect from a DSLR!! [But remember after all it’s a camera phone not a professional camera].

NOTE: DSLR stands for “Digital Single Lens Reflex” camera.

It is also the first device presented to ever run on the brand new open source Symbian user interface that's still being developed by the Symbian Foundation.

Since it is the world’s 1st 12 megapixel camera phone we can say it is the slimmest one till date.

Soon you will see companies like SAMSUNG and LG coming with 12 megapixel camera phone both the companies have excelled in 5MP & 8MP cam-phones. Nokia, Motorola and other will also come up but may take some time. Nokia, as they are focusing on N97 which has 5MP and full touch interface [since 5800 Xpress Music has many bugs, Nokia is working on it deeply]. As per my knowledge at present the only 8MP camera-phone offered by Nokia is N86.

A part from having a 12-megapixel auto/manual focus camera, 4000 x 3000 pixels of resolution with Xenon flash it is also equipped with 16 Million colors of 3.5-inch touch-sensitive display with 16:9 widescreen format and a screen resolution of 360 x 640 pixels [portrait] 640x360 pixels [landscape] same as Nokia 5800 Xpress Music.

SPECIFICATIONS^#

General	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 900 / 2100
	Announced	15th February 2009 in MWC (Spain)
	Status	Coming soon

Size	Dimensions	11.1 x 5.4 x 1.5 cm
	Weight	unknown

Display	Type	TFT touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	360 x 640 pixels, 3.5 inches

Sound	Alert types	Vibration; Polyphonic, Ringtones
	Speakerphone	Yes

Memory	Phonebook	Unlimited entries and fields, Photo calling
	Call records	received, dialed and missed calls [call log]
	Card slot	microSD (TransFlash)

Data	GPRS	Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
	HSCSD	Yes
	EDGE	Class 10, 236.8 kbps
	3G	HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 3.6 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
	Bluetooth	Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
	Infrared port	No
	USB	Yes, v2.0

Camera	Primary	12 MP, 4000 x 3000 pixels, auto/manual focus, xenon flash, video LED flash
	Features	Geo-tagging, face and smile detection and many more
	Video	Yes
	Secondary	VGA videocall camera

Features	OS	Symbian OS [under construction]
	Messaging	SMS, MMS, Email, IM
	Browser	WAP 2.0/HTML, RSS reader
	Radio	Stereo FM radio with RDS
	Games	Yes + installable [java & sis]
	Colors	Black
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support
	Java	Yes, MIDP 2.0
		- Google maps - MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player - Organizer - Voice memo/dial

Battery		Standard battery, Li-Po 1000 mAh
	Stand-by	unknown
	Talk time	unknown

Source: Specification details are taken from gsmarena website. Credit goes to them.

# Specifications may change by the corporation.

* Idou is a concept name for the phone and not the final name under which the product will actually be marketed.

Enjoy some more images of this yet to born baby

Idou* with external Stylus just like Samsung Omnia.







A sliding camera shutter cover which seems to be solid as you can see two

chips on each end of the cover.

Images of new text messaging ,inbox layout and new icons, you can see from the pictures that the interface is very finger friendly.

A typical Walkman style entertainment section, which is one one the plus point.

A Zoom in/out key, a Gallery or play button, a still camera/video camera, a shutter key.

Very simple options provided for the pictures taken from the camera with date and time showing above.

Again very finger friendly audio player showing basic information and a large album art.






















Two masterpiece of there own kind.
How about Idou* with a physical keypad, just like Xperia X1 ??

Now FEEL it.SENSE it.

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