We're sadly back to the negative points again when it comes to battery life – a 1000mAh battery isn't enough to sustain a phone with all these capabilities.
We were using Roadsync pretty much all day, as well as being open to Google Mail, Wi-Fi scanning when needed and also listening to streamed music through Bluetooth headphones, which is a lot for any phone to take. But given the way Sony Ericsson is pushing the Satio in the market, we'd expect to be able to multi-task this way with no problem.
However, there is a problem, in that users will find that the battery will run down in a day under such usage. It's not a massive problem as if you charge every night you'll be fine – but we found ourselves getting pretty close to the border of battery life at times.
The organisational skills of the Satio are pretty good too – don't expect them to throw you a birthday party or anything, but if you want synchronised Google and Exchange calendars here you've got it.
There are the rest of the things you'd hope to find on a Symbian phone – calculator, converter, PDF reader, QuickOffice – but we think you're a pretty smart bunch and will be able to work these out.
Location based services
Google Maps is included on the phone, as is a trial of WisePilot for turn-by-turn directions. Both of these are massively helped by the presence of an excellent GPS chip that can locate you seemingly in milliseconds – a far cry from the Nokia N86 which threatened to get us lost every single day.
Google Maps works better with the resistive touchscreen – but although it's nice to have a semi-dedicated sat nav, we doubt there will be hoards of people heading over to pick up the Satio just to get the free trial of WisePilot.
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okan1151
October 29th
3. great great and great phone to handle
symbian os makes this phone ancient if not stupid.
i had it fully charged in the morning, didnt use it that much, less than 30mins talk, bit browsing, battery died by 8pm.
txting is annoying, camera great,
symbian os killed something great,
shortcuts etc is very fiddly compared to iphone and lg interfaces,
i love it but it has to go
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loveandhatingphones
October 27th
2. i had the satio for one week and i HATED it with a passion!! the touch screen IS rubbish, you feel like u have to prod the screen with a hammer for it to work properly, i had several issues with the software freezing, which vodafone knew about and were waiting a update just like the nokia95 when that first got released! The rather chunky camera slide opens every time u put it in your pocket upside down, and u can 4get the phone button on the side as it doesnt work to stop this from happening! maybe these are minor problems but for me they were extremely annoying ones as i use my phone constantly
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robbo2k
October 20th
1. Nice review but I would like to point out that with regards to the apps available you don't have to limit it to what is in SE's own store. The OS like you say has been used in a number of Nokie phones and so there are already a good number of apps that can be used on the phone already. One of them is called smart Movie which turns your phone into an avi player solving one of your (not unjustified) niggles.
Admitadly though you shouldn't have to do this for such a high end product.
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