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firmware update from SE for Satio coming |
sblantipodi
Joined: Mar 10, 2008
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From: Italy
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it seems that Western-Europe firmware is out.
is there someone who can confirm?
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The_Morgue
Joined: Jun 14, 2005
Posts: 44
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I live in Sweden and have an unbranded SATIO. Just tried to upgrade but got information by SE Update Service program that I have the latest FW (R1BB041).
Aaargh….
Have my hopes that this new FW really will bring some good over my phone. Luckily I still have my Xperia X1 to fall back to if I can’t come along with this one. Will give it some more weeks though.
Any rumors what the Upgrade will include?
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eSatIo
Joined: Nov 16, 2009
Posts: 12
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On 2009-11-16 15:30:50, The_Morgue wrote:
I live in Sweden and have an unbranded SATIO. Just tried to upgrade but got information by SE Update Service program that I have the latest FW (R1BB041).
Aaargh….
Have my hopes that this new FW really will bring some good over my phone. Luckily I still have my Xperia X1 to fall back to if I can’t come along with this one. Will give it some more weeks though.
Any rumors what the Upgrade will include?
Fellow X1 owner,
1. what's the best way to migrate my stuff (contacts and SMS messages) to my Satio?
2. have you tried setting up Exchange syncing to Google Calendar? RoadSync crashes on me every time I try... I checked version numbers and while the latest retail RoadSync is v4.004 our Satio-bundled one is v4.0032 - but DataViz refuses to help me any way by saying "Sony Ericsson must provide you the update" claiming this version is available since the Summer....
3. what else is out there for this phone if I want to sync my calendar with Google?
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TheHamster
Joined: Jun 29, 2004
Posts: 50
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On 2009-11-16 21:27:15, eSatIo wrote:
Fellow X1 owner,
1. what's the best way to migrate my stuff (contacts and SMS messages) to my Satio?
2. have you tried setting up Exchange syncing to Google Calendar? RoadSync crashes on me every time I try... I checked version numbers and while the latest retail RoadSync is v4.004 our Satio-bundled one is v4.0032 - but DataViz refuses to help me any way by saying "Sony Ericsson must provide you the update" claiming this version is available since the Summer....
3. what else is out there for this phone if I want to sync my calendar with Google?
[ This Message was edited by: eSatIo on 2009-11-16 20:30 ]
I don't have an X1 but you could try the Sony Ericsson Sync service..
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sync the X1 with the SE Sync Service .. and then sync the satio (I don't think you'll get the SMS's )
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nrich
Joined: Nov 17, 2009
Posts: 11
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Just got myself a Satio. So far I love:
The looks.
The build quality.
The big 3.5’ gorgeous screen.
The viewing and handling of pictures with the touchscreen.
The walkman UI with album art.
The camera is great.
The nice UI bits that Sony have grafted over the top of S60 in places.
The home screen.
The action of camera slide.
I’ve had many S60 phones, my last phone was an N82 which is still the best phone ever made. I have a young baby so I need a decent camera, plus I’ve been longing for some large screen real estate to view pictures, movies, maps and web on. So the Satio seemed like an ideal replacement with the added bonus of being built on S60 which is a well trodden path for me with excellent multitasking capabilities.
I’ve only ever owned Nokias but their recent products have finally pushed me over the edge, I can’t wait forever. Let’s be honest, what most people really want from a smartphone is an iPhone form factor (large screen), no slide out qwerty (makes phone too big), true multitasking with a decent camera and a xenon flash. That is the Satio! I’d quite like a N900 without qwerty and better camera and xenon.
So far I like the phone a lot, it’s more a case of me getting used to S60v5 (touch) rather than me getting used to the Satio, I’ve only ever used the non-touch versions of S60 so this is all new to me. Having to know when to touch once or twice in the menus take some getting used to but I understand this is a limitation of porting traditional S60 to a touchscreen format.
As much as I’m learning to love the Satio, there are quite a number of issues with the new handset. Hopefully some can be fixed in future firmware versions. Sony, please listen and help make a good phone great!
My phone is unlocked, used in UK on O2 network. Firmware is current latest, 1218-9500_R1BB041, dated 06-10-09, custom version, 1224-3823_R1AB029.
These issues are not in order, but the real big issues that hurt usability I will mark with **, please read on……………………
1. Wi-Fi suffers from drop outs every now and again. Can’t seem to find a cause, just every now and again.
2. ** There is no way to search by name for an MP3 in Media, I have over 1200 songs on the memory card and no other way to find a track except scrolling through the entire list. Unbelievable!
3. I cannot order videos in date order. Only be ordered by filename.
4. When I have a picture attached to a contact and that person calls me, the contact picture appears ok but it is partially obscure by the contact name area.
5. ** Battery life = Not Good! Everyone knows this, not news. Please let the 1350mAH battery rumour be true……
6. When a call is received the vibration starts for about 5 seconds before the ringing starts. This might be a feature or a bug, who knows. I just wish there was a setting to choose.
7. When connecting to my bluetooth handsfree car kit there is no profile I can select for this in ‘Accessories’ menu. So when my phone is on silent in the office, it stays on silent when I get into my car. Other S60 phones had a handsfree profile. Strange this is missing as the Satio has profiles for Headset, Textphone and TV Out. Also the earpiece volume is used as the handsfree volume. This is not the case with other S60 phones.
8. ** To search for a contact is a long winded process. Being sent to a ‘split over two page non-qwerty keyboard’ to start your keypresses is hardly ideal. Why not qwerty or alphanumeric like normal S60 contacts finding? Also no contact link from normal homescreen.
9. No equalizer in Satio Media music player. Why? This is standard in all S60. I think the Satio has suffered in some cases by not using the S60 music player but benefitted in others (better to look at).
10. **Kinetic scrolling is excellent in the Media menus and other areas grafted on by Sony. But no kinetic scrolling in the normal S60 parts of the UI make getting around lists such as contacts very difficult and non-intuitive. Can we not have kinetic scrolling in all menus like N97 V2.0 firmware?
11. My Blueyonder e-mail works fine but for some reason the normal automatic retrieval settings do not work. I cannot get my e-mail checked every 30/60 mins etc, I can only connect manually?
12. Camera is excellent but the settings menu seem hard to change, the on screen settings need a hard push or several pushes to register a touch.
13. ** Screen sensitivity is not great. I know its resistive but sometimes the screen registers the touch but the UI does not react, sometimes it just does not register. Very strange. Sometimes the screen needs several touches or sometimes a really hard touch (I’m not talking about the normal S60 parts of the UI that need 2 touches to first select and then activate).
14. ** I’m not sure if the flash is weak or camera software needs changing but photos taken in low light look dark and hard to view, even at very close flash ranges of 1 metre.
15. Autorotate is bit too eager and trigger happy. The sensitivity angle could be reduced a bit please.
16. If we could have some brightness and contrast controls in video player would be good.
17. Accuweather for S60v5 install and appears to run ok until it tries to access network and then gives some strange error message. Nothing can be resolved by setting changes.
18. No RDS on the radio? Yet I think it was advertised as having RDS.
19. When photos are geotagged, unlike in N series phones there is no option to view on a map. Because no Nokia maps integrated I guess, just Google Maps and Wisepilot.
20. Speaker phone volume is a low from the loudspeaker.
21. Cannot save files that are bluetoothed to me on the memory card. If the file is too big for phone memory (See number 22) then no option to save to memory card. (I think this is an S60 issue on all phones I seem to recall)
22. ** Tiny amount of usable C drive space (50/60Mb) even though I install all apps and save everything to memory card.
23. ** Apparently Satio has 256Mb of RAM but you would not realise it as it struggles to do more than one thing at a time. This should be S60’s strength coupled with all of the Satio RAM. What’s going on?
24. Where’s the Satio Facebook App? Many can be downloaded but Satio is advertised with dedicated Facebook App.
25. ** I have set up the relevant access points in Destinations (Wi-Fi priority 1, network data priority 2). I’ve also set up all of the apps to use the correct destination and I still get asked which destination to use on app start up.
26. ** Predictive text (T9) with the alphanumeric keypad has issues! When trying to enter one letter, say m, n or o by pressing 6 key once, I cannot then toggle between them with the * key like you normally can with predictive text! I have to enter and spell n and o manually! Ridiculous!
27. ** When entering a full stop or comma or symbol after a word when I try to toggle with the * key the word is changed! Ridiculous!
28. ** Sometimes movies/videos give a ‘could not play file’ message when I launch them in Media. If I reboot the phone then they will play ok if I do it first thing without using the phone for anything else. This seems like some memory usage issues.
In general the Satio seems far from optimized in many ways. 256 Mb of RAM is not well used, it seems to get bogged down and tied up doing not very much at all! What the N97 would give for 256Mb of RAM and it would use it well, a lot better than the Satio.
Many of these fixes can be ironed out with firmware updates. I don’t expect Sony’s implementation to be as slick as Nokia’s, Nokia grew up with S60 and matured the OS to where it is today. I like what Sony is doing with S60, taking a good old reliable workhorse and making it look pretty. As long as that prettiness does not detract from the rock solid S60 functionality.
Please help us Sony, the Satio is very close to being an absolute winner.
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miguel82
Joined: Feb 14, 2006
Posts: 414
From: Portugal
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Its a long list but i agree with all points. Especially 2) ... If this is supposed to be a multimedia phone its unbelivable why they dont put a search or something like the on the iphone to browse songs. Sometimes it makes me give up searching songs and usually i use random playing mode and wait for a song that starts with Z or something like that to go to the end of the list... unbellivable really  |
glorfingal
Joined: Jun 10, 2006
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From: Bristol,UK
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search can be told to "only" search tracks .... narrows it down a bit !!
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