New Sony Ericsson Aino Touch Phone

This is the second addition to Sony Ericsson’s new Entertainment Unlimited brand and I think it just might have have gone to the top spot on my gadget wish list. Its called the Aino (not sure they thought that name through very well) and is a 3” touch screen phone with a slide down Keypad.

The Aino is the first Sony Ericsson phone to team up with the Playstation brand and will work with your PS3. The feature is called Remote play, it allows you to connect to your PS3 from anywhere around the globe as long as you have either Wi-Fi or 3G internet access. When connected you can access all the music and video on your PS3’s hard drive as well as being able to control the PlayTV function (If activated in your country), this allows you to play pause and record TV from your PS3 !

The Phone also comes as standard with A2DP wireless Bluetooth headphones (with a 3.5mm headphone socket) as pictures above and a rather neat horizontal charging deck for the phone and headphones (see video below).

Aino Touch Phone Specs

• 3 inch widescreen 16:9 touch screen and slide out Keypad

• 8.1 megapixel camera with Photo flash and intuitive touch focus

• Bluetooth™ stereo A2DP

• Video VGA 25fps

• Stereo Speakerphone

• 55MB Phone memory and MicroSD memory card slot

• Remote Play for PLAYSTATION®3

• A-GPS with Google Maps™

• Exchange ActiveSync®

• 3G HSDPA, Wi-Fi, (Quad-band GPRS/EDGE and tri-band HSDPA)

• Talk Time: 13 hours, Standby time: 380 hours

• Dimensions: 104 x 50 x 15.5 mm, Weight: 134.0g

• PlayNow™ arena and Track id

• Built in Step Counter and GPS tracker

• DLNA Certified™ (connect wirelessly to other electronic devices via Wi-Fi. i.e: See your photos on your TV)

• Media Go: Transfer your files from PC to phone wirelessly & automatically when docked (using Wi-Fi)

• Horizontal charging deck for Phone and Headphones included in box

The Aino (really that name is crazy) will be available in black or white near the end of 2009.