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Well my white Aino arrived and I couldn't be happier that I chose the white. It looks stunning! Haven't had a huge play round, but the new position of the space button (on the 0 key) is going to take getting used to.

Touchscreen and everything is so far responsive, but then I've only had it turned on for 20 minutes.
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Posted: 2009-10-20 00:50:13
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Congrats!

I hope your opinion won't go downwards when using the phone a bit more
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Posted: 2009-10-20 01:26:20
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Thanks! I hope not too. One thing I thought the phone had, but mine certainly doesn't was the SMS conversation view. I was looking forward to that but it ain't here!

Otherwise all is still great.

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Posted: 2009-10-20 02:56:56
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I'm wondering, how do we make requests to SE for changes/improvements and such?
For example, I'd like to be able to turn down the screen-brightness to less than 50%, and I can't really imagine it would be a big deal to include.

I realize there are contact forms at their website, but those rarely go anywhere in my experience. So where can we send such requests, so that they'll actually be read by someone?
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Posted: 2009-10-20 08:28:03
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Unwrappped my White Aino last night. Beautiful to behold, Not too impressed with the slider. I think it was 500 who said it first that it feels not quite as tight as it could be. The dark blue edging is plastic. Mine is the HK variant and has Facebook built into the left softkey, don't know about other regional variants but I'm not sure I like it.

UI is smooth as silk. There are odd differences to the previous A200 like the settings menu is in a list rather than having the tabs for 'General', 'Display' etc etc. Also I can't find where to turn the 'new events' to 'pop-up' instead of 'activity menu' I like to have the pop-ups because they looked prettier.

Would have like to have seen pinch zooming, but maybe the capacitive screen doesn't support multitouch.

You can't press a volume button in locked mode to see the clock like you used to, you have to press the unlock key which shows a large digital clock in landscape mode.

Speaker quality is very good. So far with the camera I'm not overly impressed, but I'm used to my C905. When the slider is open the touchscreen doesn't operate, it exits the media player/camera and goes back to the standby screen.

The built-in browser is better than the older version, but I haven't noticed tabbed browsing and it doesn't work with the touchscreen.

Gmail app works with touchscreen but the icons are a little small to use fingers with, switching to large fonts may help, haven't tried it yet.

Opera Mini 5 beta works with touchscreen and is really nice, really really nice!

The screen is a bit fingerprinty.

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Posted: 2009-10-20 11:32:27
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can you guys post pics of your white aino please?

tell us more about the speed of UI and the sound quality when playing mp3s, as well as camera performance please
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Posted: 2009-10-20 12:13:50
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The phone looks and feels great.

Very good slider no wobble at all (better than my W995)

Great screen, beautiful colors/contrast

Physical keyboard is a bit small, but with very good feedback

Touch screen when in media style (keyboard closed) is very responsive.
I tried Opera MINI 5
It uses another interface than the one on W995.
It is not very much responsive, lots of missclicks, the virtual keyboard is useless. I hope the final version will fix/enhance touch use.

I also tried  SNAPTU and I Highly recommand it to all users : it's a great tool and has an excellent touch response !

Wifi
Very good catch, quick. Better than W705 & W995 (which was very good)


GPS
worked inside my office! But seems to searching for sattelites when I tried it on foot...

Menu navigation
beautiful themes and icons, but kind of slow Flash menus compared to W995

Games
only 2 isntalled,no use of thouch screen and slow !

Speaker
I thought my WW995 was the loudest SE, I was wrong : Aino has great sound and is the loudest phone I ever had.

Battery life
It sucks: Not even 1 day for the first charge (100% brightness , 3G Internet ...) Maybe my battery is defective...

I am now on my second charge, it seems better but still not very good.

Music playback: did not try yet


Remote play
Tried at home using my network : music is great, videos can lag (sound quicker than image, but quality can be downgraded and it helps).
I couldn't make it work with another WIFI connection ! Did not try it with 3G


What I don't like:
- Annoying when you close the slider : touch media even if you are alreay in music playback
- Your can answer calls using touch : I think SE could have easily enabled making calls using touch too
- integrated Facebook is very slow (Using Snaptu's Facebook works like a charm)
- battery life
- having to slide the keyboard to access the navigation keys is very very disturbing

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Posted: 2009-10-20 12:14:38
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I have a generic Aino and I don't have the Facebook softkey. I have "Media" and "Search" which takes you to a Google Search. Very helpful.

Also, my slider seems very solid. No complaints there at all.

Hopefully I'll have some images up tomorrow.
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Posted: 2009-10-20 12:50:54
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Happy for you for your new phone.

anyway i will not have the problem with the space button on 0 ... on one of my phones it is there already



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Posted: 2009-10-20 13:06:42
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What a serious omission on your unit, others sure have it:


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Posted: 2009-10-20 14:38:16
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