Sony Ericsson Satio sports a 3.5-inch nHD (640×360 pixels) touchscreen, high-end 12.1 megapixel snapper with 12x Digital Zoom, video light, xenon flash, auto focus, face detection, geotagging, image stabilizer. Other features include, Bluetooth A2DP, FM Radio, Java, TV-Out, Wi-Fi, HD and 3D gaming option, WebKit Web Browser, A-GPS, 120MB internal memory with external microSD card support. The Satio also supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS/HSDPA 850/900/2100. Buyers will find an 8GB memory card and color-matched stereo portable handsfree.

The Satio will be running the Symbian S60 operating system 5th Edition, which means you can install the thousands of great apps that are already out there for Symbian, if you can figure out how. Sony Ericsson hinted at an app store coming later this year, so that should help.

Satio will be available in selected markets from early Q4 in the colours: Black, Silver and Bordeaux

Sony Ericsson Satio specifications:

* Band: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
* UMTS: 2100MHz or 850/1900/2100MHz
* Data: GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA/HSPA/WiFi
* S60 5th edition Symbian™ OS
* 3.5-inch touchscreen TFT, 16M color, 640×360 pixel in resolution.
* 12.1 megapixel camera, Up to 12x digital zoom, Auto focus, Face detection, Geo tagging of photos, Image stabilizer.
* 128MB internal memory, microSD card slot (8GB card included)
* Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP)
* Media player
* Music tones (MP3/AAC)
* PlayNow™
* TrackID™
* HD and 3D games
* Facebook™ application
* FM radio with RDS
* Bluetooth with A2DP
* Size: 112 x 55 x 13.3 mm
* Weight: 126 grams

The new device is the N97 that Nokia has chosen to use the new functionality of the suite of applications and services such as Nokia Maps 3.0, which now offers satellite images and topographic maps and works with the N97 built in A-GPS unit . The N97 is also aware of its users’ social location, the sharing of location information with friends and family and to take advantage of the integration of the electronic compass for pedestrian simple directions. New applications are quite impressive on the N97 3.5 “, 640×360 pixel resistive touchscreen. The home screen, which is fully customizable with widgets data also benefits from the the large display.

The sliding mechanism that reveals the QWERTY keyboard, moves in an arc that leaves the screen at an angle of 35 degrees to the keyboard, which makes for easy viewing, when entering text on the three lines QWERTY keyboard or when watching video 30fps. Within the Nokia N97 is packed with an impressive 32 GB built in storage space can be increased with microSD memory card up to 16GB in size – for a total of 48GB of space storage.