Sony Ericsson Satio has the excellent picture quality. 16.9 screen perfect for movies. Powerful S60 OS with added jazz. We all know that Sony Ericsson builds the best camera phones. So when it announced a 12.1MP mobile that runs the Symbian Series 60 OS on a huge, touch-sensitive display, we were more than a little excited.

The 12 mega pixels may seem like overkill for a camera phone. But you can’t get away from the fact the image quality of the Satio is excellent, and pictures are easily big enough for A4 prints. Naysayer moaning about the lack of optical zoom can also be silenced: those extra pixels mean you can crop into the final image without worrying about being left with a tiny file. As usual, a raft of added photo features are included – some more useful than others. Activate smile-detection and the Satio won’t just identify faces and focus on them, it’ll wait for a goofy grin before it takes a picture.

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