Today Sony Ericsson showed the new version of it’s perfect tool Themes Creator. Version 4.16 now supports themes for Sony Ericsson’s Symbian phones Satio™ and Vivaz™. The programm is very simple, very nice and it’s possible to make a theme just in four steps: backgrounds, colors, style and sounds. Advanced color control allows you to colorize many elements to your exact requirements, just like with our other phones. Themes Creator enables you to create themes much faster than is possible using the standard Carbide tool.Use your imagination. And make your phone more beautiful.
The Sony Ericsson Themes Creator tool is a “composer” that allows you to personalize the look and feel of any Sony Ericsson mobile phone by quickly creating great-looking themes based on existing components such as color palettes, sound files, image files or animations.
Now Version 4.16 adds support for Symbian phones Satio™ and Vivaz™.
Version 4.12 added support for XPERIA X2 and a rotate image function to supplement the crop function. There is a refreshed look and feel and parts of the wizard have been redesigned for an easier and more natural flow.
Spice up your mobile
Make your background red. Turn the graphics purple. Add a picture of your parrot. Then put it on your phone.
It’s easy to do with our free Themes Creator which helps you make your mobile screen match your personality. In a few easy steps.So go on. Use your imagination. And make your phone more beautiful.
With the latest Themes Creator you can:
Crop your image
Resize. Zoom. Crop. Fast. The built-in image editor gives you more control.
Play with colour
Too much orange? A bit more blue? The colour circle tool offers endless possibilities.
Pick your own colour
Like a colour in a photo? Use it. Just move the dots to make it happen.
Consumers can create a theme in minutes using the three-step Wizard mode – see how on our Themes Creator Minisite.
Professional developers get fine control over many elements of the theme using the Advanced Editor mode.
Download:
Themes Creator v4.16 – Windows – English
Themes Creator v4.16 – Mac – English
Themes Creator v4.16 – Windows – Chinese
Themes Creator v4.16 – Mac – Chinese
Release Notes
This document describes how to implement themes for Sony Ericsson mobile phones. The document is intended for content providers who want guidelines to optimally create themes and the elements required to create an appealing theme.
Hi guys News!!! for fans of sony ericsson satio and vivaz.Available Equalizer application for both. Yes again, ours friends of sony ericsson product blog in first hand and read that Rikard Skogberg wrote for us.
“Finally an update on the question of Equalizer for Satio and Vivaz. As some of you might know one important feedback from you the readers of this blog has been that you want an equalizer in Satio and Vivaz. Since I got this feedback and saw your engagement in the issue I’ve worked quite a lot with trying to make that happen. As it turned out it unfortunately hasn’t been possible to add it in an integrated way in a software update. However some real hero colleagues of mine decided to try to build it as a separate application instead so I’m now delighted to at least offer a kind of solution for those of you that have been missing an equalizer.”
You to set 11 equalizer presets including the option to disable it. These presets are:
- Off
- Classical
- Dance
- Jazz
- Loudness
- Mega Bass
- Party
- Pop
- Rock
- Spoken Word
- Treble Boost
Ahh hey guys you can download it on PlayNow Arena it’s free! and trustme, nice update for the lovers of quality music 
. See the image.
Watch the video:
Equalizer Application in Satio
Via: http://www.sonyericsson.com/update/locale
Visite the web: http://www.playnow-arena.com
The next software update for Satio is now avaliable. Timing on the update is however different for different markets and operator branded versions. The first ones should start to come up this weekend and then continue over the coming week. However it might differ slightly between markets as some kits might need approval from operators and can therefore take some more time, still I would expect most versions of Satio to have the new software available in latest a few weeks from now.
Update for Satio™ for better performance and core stability improvements.You can to found also update for these model mobile Aino™ and Yari™.
Update for Aino™ for lower battery consumption and performance improvements for GPS, WLAN and Bluetooth™. Hit game Loco Roco included for free.
Update for Yari™ for lower battery consumption and improvements to Bluetooth™ and GPS performance. We’re also giving away two great new hands free games – Snowboard Rush and Hamster Hustle – and improving the game shop! These and other hands free games are also available for download from PlayNow™. Enjoy!
Read first in http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/products
List of Highlights:
- Support for WVGA video recording – The already great video recording will be enhanced to fit the wide screen format and hence resolution is also slightly increased to 864 * 480 pixles. (the preset size will still be VGA, user has to change to get WVGA)
- Upload of pictures to Facebook – It will be possible to upload pictures directly from the picture menu you have on the home screen or from the Media UI.
- Youtube video uploading – It will be possible to upload videos to Youtube directly from the Media UI.
- Conversational messaging – “Conversations” will be nicely integrated in the messaging menu in order to easily find and inspire to more conversations with your friends.
- DLNA support – The new software will support DLNA media server for easy transfer of audio and still pictures. (Note that video is not supported)
- UI improvements – On top of above, several minor UI improvements have been done in order to optimize the user experience.
- The Facebook application that is now available on PlayNow for free download will be included in the sw.
Step by Step:
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Step 1
Download Update Service
Click above to download the Update Service
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Step 2
Install Update Service
Follow the instructions and install Update Service
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Step 3
Get started
Accept the license agreement and click ‘Start’
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Step 4
Connect Your Phone
Select your model, click ‘next’ and follow the instructions.
Connecting your phone for the first time may take up to one minute
The update will be available through the Update Service client found at www.sonyericsson.com/update
This video was recorded with a Sony Ericsson Satio 12MP. The quality of video is good but we can still improve it with some synchronization and increasing a bit the FPS. Some adjustments in the white balance would be a good idea also and the possibility of having two formats video movie size to recording video. So guys see the video recording with Sony Ericsson Satio on a electric RC plane Multiplex EasyStar. Nice video and thnks divebudd, the producer of the video.
Watch Video:
Sony Ericsson Satio gone RC
Property Video
Read the text by producer video:
“This movie was taken today (28/08/2009 @ central Israel) with a Sony Eriscoon Satio smartphone that was mounted on my electric RC plane (Multiplex EasyStar).”
“The actual “real” movie has much better quality but in order to edit the MPEG4 files (the Satio saves the video files in that format) in Windows movie Maker, I had to convert the files to AVI which downgrades the quality.”
“The Satio has an AMAZING camera (12.1MP) which delivers AMAZING results!”
Enjoy your flight and thanks for watching.
Come soon a Sony Ericsson Vivaz flying too 
Article and Text by Steve Litchfield
“It has been a long time since a new Symbian-powered smartphone was released with a true Xenon flash: the type used in just about every standalone camera of just about any budget. The argument about why this should be so has raged on within the AAS team. Theories about Xenon proving too costly, too bulky, too battery-unfriendly and too specialist, have all been shot down in flames at various points. We had the Nokia N82, a candy bar with small screen, then the Nokia 6220c, aping the N82 but with lower build quality and price to match, then the Samsung G810, an industrially designed chunky dual slider which also featured optical zoom but which was never supported or updated by Samsung, rather sadly.
And now we have the Sony Ericsson Satio, bringing a top notch 12 megapixel lens and sensor, along with Xenon flash and a LED video light, in addition to a giant 3.5″ touchscreen and S60 5th Edition. It’s true that Sony Ericsson hasn’t done much to the S60 codebase in general, that there’s no kinetic scrolling and that (as I write this) there are significant bugs right, left and centre, but there is a lovely new interface for the camera software and that’s the area I’m going to be concentrating on in this review part. See the final part 3 (to be published when Sony Ericsson has issued the first major firmware update for the Satio) for wider discussion of the Satio’s applications and general smartphone use.”
As described in part 1 of this review, the Satio’s camera is hidden behind the singlemost impressive part of the phone’s case, a steel sliding section that, when retracted, also starts the Satio’s Camera application. This is also tied in with all the buttons on the ‘top’ (as the Satio is held in landscape/camera mode):
- zoom out/in (though, as ever, digital zoom is strongly discouraged – you don’t gain any extra detail, you simply introduce extra digital artefacts into the centre of your subject area – it’s also worth noting that zoom in video mode is equally as bad, as on most other camera phones – there’s no intelligent digital zoom, as on the Nokia N86)
- the ‘Album’ shortcut (at any point, pressing this switches to a ‘review’ mode, where you can swipe through your photos)
- the stills/video toggle (soooo much easier than fiddling about in a menu or trying to hit an on-screen icon to change mode)
- the shutter button (this is large and of high quality, with nigh-on perfect feel under the right hand index finger)
In addition to the light sensor, video shoot notification (red) LED, video shooting (white) LED and Xenon flash, there’s also a strip LED which light up blue for a second or so after starting the camera – and I have absolutely no idea what this is for. Comments welcome. Maybe it’s just there to look ‘cool’!
Sony Ericsson has always had its own ideas of what a camera interface should look like and they’ve been tweaking it for their touchscreen phones, with status icons along the top of the screen and camera control icons down the left edge (the right edge is saved for application . And, to be fair, it works much better than Nokia’s attempt for their S60 5th Edition phones, which tend to be marred by a confusing mix of pop-up icon panes and traditional menus and dialogs. The interface on the Satio works very well indeed and I found it intuitive.
Down the left of the interface are:
- ‘Scene modes’: Auto, Portrait, Landscape, Twilight landscape, Sports, Document, Twilight portrait, Beach/snow
- ‘Shoot mode’: Normal, Panorama, Bestpic, Smile detection, Touch capture (this last is similar to the systems on other touchscreen phones, where you touch the point in the image that you wish to explicitly focus on)
- ‘Flash’
- ‘Exposure’
- ‘Auto’ – turning this on removes all the other controls, the Satio literally becomes a ‘point and shoot’ camera
The toolbox icon at the bottom right of the screen leads to a custom tabbed dialog with few surprises. Of note is that the default resolution of the camera is actually 9 megapixels, corresponding to a widescreen (16:9) image, scaled similarly to the Satio’s display. For the purposes of the photo tests in this review part, I used the full 4:3 aspect 12 megapixels (4000 pixels by 3000 pixels!) though, naturally. The average consumer certainly doesn’t need 12 megapixels, but what I’m going to be doing here is looking at maximum detail under extreme circumstances.
Photo testing
Here I was comparing identical shots on the Satio with photos taken on the Nokia N86 and Samsung i8910 HD, both also 8 megapixel Symbian smartphones
, plus the slightly older 5 megapixel N96, for comparison.
Shot 1: Sunlight into a garage, high contrast, mix of bright and pastel colours, plenty of texture
(Above is the Satio’s photo, click to download the full 12 megapixel version. Note excellent handling of colours – nigh on perfect, detail and contrast. Very impressive all round)
(Detailed crops, clockwise from left: Satio, N86, N96, i8910 HD)
As I tweeted recently, the difference between the detail from the Satio’s images and those from the N96’s is startling. Remember that the Nokia N95/N82/N95 (and others) have had just about the best phone camera up until a year or so ago. And yet the N96’s 5 megapixel image is made to look utterly ordinary and rather poor. In the tweet, I proclaimed that, camera-wise, the Satio is to the N95 what the N95 was to the N70 (from 2005).
Looking at the images, the Satio’s has the best colour rendition and detail, though the i8910 HD was only very marginally behind, showing what Samsung’s camera can do under ideal conditions. The N86 made rather a mess of the colours in the wood and its wide angle lens also meant that there was only marginally more detail than the N96’s image.
Review by Steve Litchfield
“It’s Sony Ericsson’s first ever S60 smartphone, running the same S60 5th Edition as the Nokia 5800, but with several Sony Ericsson extras, plenty of horsepower under the bonnet and a distinctive camera-centric tablet form factor. How well has Sony Ericsson adapted to the switch from UIQ to S60 and what’s the Satio’s hardware like? And can Sony Ericsson succeed where Samsung have been struggling in the battle to compete with the lesser specified Nokias?”
Prologue: You’ll have read this week about Sony Ericsson pulling the Satio from sale, pending fixes to some major bugs. As you’ll see from the text below, I also hit problems, but they’re not going to stop me looking at the raw hardware objectively. With the appropriate software fix-ups, just how good could the Satio be?
Flagships have a tough time in the phone world. Designed to include every function under the sun and to appeal to the most knowledgeable and tech-hungry users, they inevitably come up short. Witness the Nokia N96 and N97, for example, each plagued by bugs and issues in their first six months. In this company, it’s not a damning indictment of the Satio that it too is equally less perfect. As with the Nokia flagships, there’s lots of potential here – in fact arguably more, let down mainly by silly bugs and a few even sillier hardware design quirks.
Using one of the supplied themes – I do like black text on white background, for better visibility
Ostensibly a tablet along the lines of the Nokia 5800, and weighing in at 126g the Satio distinguishes itself by including the same 3.5″ transflective screen as the Nokia N97 classic – a good all-purpose choice and one which will work adequately even in sunlight, when out and about taking photos. The body’s almost entirely plastic, but solid enough. The huge camera bulge on the back (taking this section to 17mm thick) is understandable, given the Satio’s pretensions, but what’s not so clear is why the main body of the phone (around 55% of the remaining length) is kept so thin (13mm). Given that the battery here is only 1000mAh and that the Satio is patently underpowered, why on earth didn’t the designers allow more of the rest of the body to bulk out a little to accommodate a larger cell – the camera has already put paid to this phone ever being described as “razor thin”, after all?
Note the mix of materials – and I’d just wiped the plastic down on my sleeve! 
The camera cover is stainless steel and gorgeous, but the same can’t really be said for acres of plastic around it. Both the (resistive) touchscreen and the battery cover are utter fingerprint magnets -
