I don’t come in contact with many Sony Ericsson phones, so when it do, it’s a reason to pay a little closer attention. And so today I talk about the Sony Ericsson Satio, a phone that brings a lot to the table but not without some problems.

The Sony Ericsson Satio offers a twelve megapixel camera with 16x zoom and a variety of photo editing options, a Walkman music player included directly inside the phone, full QWERTY keyboard, handwriting recognition, 3G and WiFi capability, a phone book that starts at two hundred fifty contacts and only goes up to the limit of the phone’s onboard memory, mobile email, the QuickOffice Suite (you’ll need the Premium Edition to edit documents), PDF reader, Facebook specific application, calendar, notepad, alarm clock, calculator, FM radio, TrackID music recognition, a video player, USB cable, Bluetooth connectivity and a battery that yields eleven hours of talk time on a single charge.

There’s plenty of incredible features here–a twelve megapixel camera is almost unheard of in cell phone cameras, and the sheer bulk of great stuff is more than welcome. There are downside here, though. First among them is that the Sony Ericsson Satio doesn’t offer a standardized headset jack, and the controls aren’t the easiest to use.

For all the features you could ever want, this one’s got a good start. But the Sony Ericsson Satio doesn’t stand up to a lot of other phones out there that can do just as much and even more.

The Good

An amazing amount of features

Superpowered camera

The Bad

Proprietary headphone jack

Difficult controls

Score 7 / 10

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