Coming Soon: Software Update for Satio

Software updates are always something to look forward to, especially when it comes to relatively new devices. After all, most updates not only fix existing problems, but more often than not, they come with additional new software capabilities and features that extend and expand the overall usefulness of a smart phone.

The Satio will be getting some interesting new tools as well as a few graphical improvements for those who would be pointing their phone browsers at the official Satio website by Sony Ericsson (use the update service command).

The big new addition here would be the additional WVGA quality recording for the Satio’s amazing 12 mega pixel camera. The snapper already comes with video LED lights, Xenon flash, auto focus, smile and face detection and geo-tagging. The new high resolution video has definitely made the Satio an impressive media phone.

Of course, all those good videos are nothing if you cannot show them off. The update will also give users better Facebook integration with a new app found in the Sony PlayNow menu. Even better is that addition of instant image uploads to Facebook and instant video uploads to YouTube –making that WVGA patch pretty useful.

This impressive set of new updates for the Satio certainly shows how far this Symbian smart phone has gone. Back in 2009, the Satio got a lot of publicity from Sony Ericsson’s massive marketing campaign –a powerful marketing boost that still had the Satio fall flat on its’ face as it suffered from sudden firmware problems that got it suspended from sales.

Sony Ericsson was still able to save the device by bringing out a patch to fix the errors and have the Satio back on shelves just right before the holidays.

Read more about the details of the Satio update patch on GSM Arena.