It's fair to say the Nintendo Wii has been a phenomenal success and the vast majority of that success can be attributed to its revolutionary, at the time, motion controller. It's thus no surprise that other companies have been falling over themselves to grab a piece of this apparently lucrative market. This makes sense if you're Microsoft or Sony and you want to extend your existing games console's capabilities but is the world really ready for gesture gaming on a mobile phone? Sony Ericsson thinks so and the first fruit of this less than obvious tangent in the mobile phone market is the Yari. Read on to see if we've been convinced.
Contrary to what you might expect given its gaming pretensions, the Yari isn't a premium all touch-screen phone with a super fast processor like the 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon used in the
HTC HD2 and Toshiba TG01. Instead it's a relatively modest slider phone with a 2.4in non-touch screen that has a resolution of just 240 x 320. It's not just that it's a phone with modest pretensions either, it's also clearly made to a budget.
