The Sony Ericsson Yari is a high profile slider phone and gaming device with great multimedia features. The screen is 2.4-inch TFT screen 240 x 320 pixels (QVGA) with 16,777,216 colors. The built-in camera is 5 megapixel with flash. Yari supports motion serisor games and comes preloaded with a few.
The Sony Ericsson Yari costs Rs 14,500 in India.
It is compatible with Windows 7 Device Stage, just connect to the PC using the USB cable. With Media Go, you can transfer your media files between your phone and PC via drag and drop. Media Go automatically converts films and music files to give you the best possible quality.
It has two horizontal gaming keys to the sides of the screen. Sliding the front panel up reveals the alphanumeric keypad. It has the fast port for USB / charger / headphone on the left. The volume rocker, microSD card slot and camera key are on the right side. The camera with LED flash. The module is placed on the upper part of the back panel.
Yari has a 5 megapixel digital camera with screen viewfinder, dedicated menus and direct interaction with in-phone imaging and messaging features. The camera shoot mode include normal, smile detection, panorama and frames. You can also set the scenes to auto, twilight landscape, landscape, portrait, beach/snow, ports, documents, etc. Focus can be set to auto, face detection, macro or infinite. Yari also supports White balance and adding effects are also supported.
Geo-tagging photos and direct uploading to Picasa, Flickr and Blogger is possible directly through the phone. Yari also has a Photo Fix feature to automatically correct the light balance of the picture.
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Videos can be recorded with flash. Colour effects can be added to videos as well. Yari is fully YouTube compatible – you can record funny moment and upload it to youtube.
Sony Ericsson Yari has the Walk Mate application, which stays activated all throughout the day and keeps track of how many steps you have walked and how many steps you have left to reach your daily average health goal.
Yari supports motion serisor games. Yari also supports gesturecontrolled games, which work on the optical tracker technology and use the phone’s camera to detect movements in compatible games. These movements are then translated into game moves.
The phone comes preloaded with two gesture controlled games: Tennis and Fitness. To play them you need to keep the phone in an upright position in front of you and imagine you have a racket in your hand (in case of Tennis) and play. The front camera captures every moment.
Game carousel is an interesting feature of the phone. Once activated it synchronises with the homescreen and runs in the background. So, you can have all your gaming icons on the homescreen in the form of a side scroll.
Yari has a Music Player and FM radio, with load speakers. The music player comes with options like stereo widening and equalisers. It has an internal memory of 60 MB, which can be expanded up to 16 GB. The phone is available in achromatic black and cranberry white colors.
The Sony Ericsson Yari has built-in aGPS. Location-based services like Google Maps and Wisepilot help you find the way to your destination. It supports geo-tagging of photos. It has a GPS receiver, Google Maps, Wisepilot Navigation and Tracker.
Specifications
- Size: 100.0 x 48.0 x 15.7 mm
- Weight: 115.0 g
- Screen: 240 x 320 pixels (QVGA) 16,777,216 color TFT
- Available colours: Achromatic Black, Cranberry White, Metal Rose
- Memory: 60MB Inbuilt, SanDisk microSD support upto 16GB
- Networks: GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900; UMTS/HSUPA 850/900/1900/2100
Camera
- 5 megapixel
- Auto focus: Automatic focus for optimal clarity.
- Digital Zoom: up to 4x
- Face detection: Your phone automatically sets the focus on the faces in your pictures.
- Geo tagging: Have your photo tagged with information on where it was taken.
- Photo feeds: Subscribe to photo feeds from a friend’s photo blog.
- Photo fix: Optimize image quality. Photo fix adjusts light balance and contrast after you have taken a picture.
- Send to web: Catch moments with your camera and send straight to your personal web site or blog.
- Smile detection: Let the camera automatically snap the shot when your subject flashes a smile.
- Video light: More light when shooting video.
- Video record: Record video clip
Music
- Bluetooth stereo (A2DP): Music from phone to headset over a wireless connection.
- Media Player: An in-phone media player for music and video
- MegaBass: Enhance bass frequencies and give your music more body.
- Music tones: MP3, AAC – Use original artist recordings as ringtones.
- PlayNow: Download music and games to your phone.
- SensMe: Music mood mapping. Listen to, and create, playlists of songs sorted according to the mood of the music.
- Stereo speakers: Listen out loud – a full sound experience via stereo speakers.
- TrackID: Record a few seconds of a song and get track, artist and album information sent to your phone in seconds.
Internet
- Bookmarks: Quick access to your favourite websites.
- Google search: Find what you’re after with the Google search function.
- Web browser: Access NetFront Web Browser
- Web feeds: Get the news in your phone as it happens.
Entertainment
- 3D games: Enjoy quality games with full color and depth.
- Gesture gaming: Place yourself in front of the phone’s camera and move your body to win the game.
- Java: Add extra applications and games to your phone.
- Media: Media content in one place for fast and easy access.
- Motion gaming: Gaming gets physical – turn, swing, move your phone to control the action.
- Radio – FM radio with RDS: Radio entertainment around the clock.
- Tracker: Track your route – this sports application has GPS support.
- Video Clip: Video clip viewing and transfer to another phone or PC
- Video streaming: Realtime video streaming, e.g. live cam
- Walk Mate: Your phone comes pre-loaded with a step counter.
- YouTube: View your favorite YouTube videos, or upload your own – access is easy via the YouTube application.
Connectivity
- aGPS: Utilise GPS powered location based services.
- Bluetooth technology: Secure wireless connectivity for transferring items to other Bluetooth products up to a range of 10 meters.
- Google Maps: Find your way to your destination.
- Modem: GSM internet dial-up support
- PictBridge: Send your images straight from your phone to a printer.
- Synchronisation PC: Synchronise and share phone content with PC
- USB mass storage: Connect and move items between computer and phone.
- USB support: PC to phone USB cable support
- Wisepilot turn-by-turn navigation
Messaging
- Conversations: Say it via chat-style text messaging.
- Email: Built-in email client with inbox, outbox, compose, send and other functions
- Exchange ActiveSync: Stay seamlessly synchronized with your Microsoft Exchange email server.
- Instant messaging: Online chat. On the move.
- Picture messaging (MMS): Colourful multimedia messaging.
- Predictive text input: Fast and easy text messaging.
- SMS long (Text Messaging): Concatenated text messaging up to 9600 characters. This feature must be enabled when sending text messages with pictures and sounds attached (EMS).
- Sound recorder: A mini recording device in your phone that lets you record voice messages or other sounds
Communication
- Music call: Enjoy a little background music while talking.
- Speaker phone: Loudspeaker suitable for using the phone as an office handsfree
- Vibrating Alert: The phone vibrates and you can feel when a call comes in
- Video calling (Main camera): Show what’s happening around you in real time video.
Design
- Auto rotate: Switch from vertical to horizontal mode by rotating the phone. Whatever you are viewing will rotate to suit.
- Dedicated gaming keys: A full-throttle experience via keys designed for gaming.
- Picture wallpaper: Background picture on-screen when the phone is in standby mode
- Wallpaper animation: Animated wallpaper – moving background pictures. In standby, your display wallpaper has a pleasing graphic pattern with smooth movement and colour blending.
- Flight mode: Disable the radio receivers and transmitters in your phone so you can safely use other functions.
- Organiser
- Alarm clock
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Notes
- Phone book
- Stopwatch
- Tasks
- Timer
- Torch functionality: Use your phone to light up when in dark environments.
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