Hails "amazing job" of new SE handset.
Mobile games developer Fishlabs has given Sony Ericsson a welcome boost, by praising the gaming capabilities of its new Satio smartphone and saying it's more powerful than the iPhone 3GS.
"The Satio features the same 3D-Chip PowerVR SGX as the iPhone 3GS running Symbian on an even more powerful CPU ARM11 clocked at 600MHz," blogs Fishlabs boss Michael Schade.
"Furthermore, it comes with plenty of memory and with a bigger display than the iPhone featuring 640 x 360 pixels resolution."
However, specs aren't everything. Schade also praises the way Sony Ericsson has made the Satio's functionality available to developers, reporting that Fishlabs has ported its iPhone game Rally Master Pro to the device.
"Thanks to the better screen resolution of Satio, it is stunning how much more details can be rendered in the scene," he writes.
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Does this mean Satio will be a big hit for mobile developers? Not necessarily. The handset is only part of the story - will consumers find it easy to discover rich games like Rally Master Pro on Sony Ericsson's app store?
For that matter, will they be able to find the Satio? It's currently not being sold in several UK retailers due to unspecified software issues.
Even so, at a time when iPhone is consuming much of the attention in the mobile games industry, Fishlabs' latest blog post shows some developers haven't given up on Symbian - and its handset makers - just yet.
