We gave some of them a spin and found that the accelerometer worked well in games like the cutesy LocoRoco. The gesture-based games were less successful. You have to prop up the phone on the included stand and wave your arms like a drunken octopus to bash a ball in the tennis game, or work your whole body up and down in the fitness game, for example.
Not only were the games hard to control, they were embarrassing to play. They're really only suited to lonely nights on your own when an ill-timed power outage has killed your games consoles and PCs. Take the shot The Yari has a 5-megapixel camera on the back, and we were impressed with the range of options that it gave us, from smile recognition to a timer.
Our shots in good light came out slightly pink, but they weren't too bad otherwise. In low light, our photos were grainy and noisy, but the LED photo light helped to brighten things up, and it's better than having no illumination at all.
The front-mounted camera can be used for video calling, as well as for games. You can even log into Google Latitude to share your location with your friends. You can also keep in touch with a built-in Facebook application, which did a good job of displaying everything we needed to know on the small screen.
Snapshots can be sent straight to Facebook, Picasa, Flickr or Blogger, so there'll be no more waiting to embarrass your mates with evidence of their antics on your latest pub crawl. The gestures are performed without touching the phone — you put the phone in its stand and move your hands or entire body to control the games.
In the Tennis game you control the serve and shots. To serve, you swing your hand forward and then back. The gesture-controlled Tennis game tries to out-Wii the Wii. Arrows show up on the screen to indicate the direction in which you need to swing your hand and the best moment to do it. That turns Tennis into a sort of rhythm game. Fitness is much simpler but, like with Walk Mate, the point is the exercise more than the complexity of the game.
As the name implies, you either squat or side step. The Yoga portion requires you to do the Vrksasana pose a. Tree Pose and hold your balance. As for the motion-controlled games — Bowling and LocoRoco — they can be quite fun for an impromptu bowling tournament or to entertain children. Well, just one of the preinstalled games uses them - FIFA That hardly justifies putting dedicated gaming keys.
Its sensitivity is decent enough and with A-GPS enabled, it managed to acquire a lock almost instantaneously. The Yari is equipped with Wisepilot navigation software and offers all the features you'd expect in a proper SatNav solution. SatNav software is a big plus for every feature phone, because installing one is near impossible.
Wisepilot navigation software. A 5MP camera and GPS in an attractive package and of course great audio quality — we might have a winner on our hands. The accelerometer also comes into play — the Bowling game puts a Wii in your pocket.
But the Sony Ericsson Yari is not just about games. It packs a 5MP camera with auto-focus and the audio quality is great. Sony Ericsson Yari. Games, music, navigation — the Sony Ericsson Yari is a Swiss army knife of a phone.
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