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The most camera-looking phone ever created, the Sony Ericsson Satio lives up to its looks with a whopping 12.1 megapixel camera. Does this guarantee anything except perhaps annoyingly large file sizes? It sure doesn’t. But we think the Sony Ericsson Satio might have a little more to offer than most of the heavyweight phones on their way. And one of the best things about it, in fact, is that it isn’t selling itself as a ‘cameraphone’. Preferring instead to talk up the phone’s ‘visual communication’ capabilities, we think Sony Ericsson have made a very smart choice indeed. As we’ve ranted about before, a phone is a phone, no matter how many megapixels it has, and pretending the camera is anything other than one of various multimedia extensions to a phone is a dangerous game.

So what does the Sony Ericsson Satio have to offer in terms of visual communication then? Well, most impressively it has a 16:9 ratio full touchscreen that, as far as we’ve seen, is about as crystal clear as screens come. This isn’t an AMOLED screen as we’ve seen recently on the various Samsung models being released, but it’s a decent enough effort. Add to that some cool media downloading options through the PlayNow Arena, a nifty instant-access touch panel to jump to your various media options from the homescreen and, well, lots of other stuff (check out this Sony Ericsson Satio review for a full rundown) and you’ll realise the Satio is an impressive little number.

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