Win without controllers. Control without buttons. The playing field is everywhere. Fastest movers win. Game on.

Design

The Yari isn't a high-end phone, its RRP of US$508 places it somewhere in the middle of the road, and from a distance it looks like another boring handset. Up close though, you discover something quite beautiful in its black and white composition, its asymmetrical curving white trim and oddly shaped camera key--the gentle ridges that define the keys on the T9 keypad.

While we find this handset beautiful to behold, we don't find it fantastic to use. The aforementioned keypad design is cool to look at, but it's essentially a flat plastic surface with raised peaks, and while this is nice to slide your fingers across, it makes it difficult to type on quickly and accurately. The same can be said for the navigation panel under the phone's screen. Again it looks great, with careful, subtle design, but the buttons aren't easy to use without care.

Good game

If you've heard anything about the Yari it's no doubt about the phone's gaming prowess, Sony Ericsson's first gesture-controlled gaming phone. For most gamers the following statements are probably completely redundant, but we'll say them anyway: These games suck like a Dyson cyclonic vacuum cleaner. Of the 10 games pre-installed, five of them are controlled by a player's gestures recorded by a front-facing camera, similar to the EyeToy on the Playstation. There's Baseball, Boxing, Bowling, Tennis and Fitness, with only Bowling responding well to gestures and none of them coming even close to being fun.

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