Sony Ericsson has just announced the Yari phone featuring gesture gaming technology. The Yari offers various gesture-enabled games as well as other motion and standard games. It provides users with a games carousel for quick access of all games from a user’s desktop as well as for browsing downloadable games at Sony Ericsson’s PlayNow arena.The Sony Ericsson Yari seemed like a mobile version of the Nintendo Wii wherein you control the game with your gestures rather than with control pad buttons.  It also has A/B buttons for gaming shortcut keys.  The Yari even comes with an EC500 phone stand with integrated keyring for easy playing time.

The Sony Ericsson Yari runs on GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS/HSDPA 900/2100 network.  Its other major features incude a 5.0 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom, auto focus, face detection, photo feeds, photo fix, photo light, smile detection, video light and direct sending to the web. The phone also features a music player, stereo speakers, location tracking by SMS, music shake control, Google search, web feeds, Bluetooth stereo, bookmarks, email, instant messaging, auto rotate function, FM Radio with RDS, A-GPS, and other PIM features.

Other specs include 2.4″ TFT display, 1GB microSD support, up to 10 hrs talk time and up to 450 hrs of standby time.

The Sony Ericsson Yari is slated for release in Q4 and will be available in Achromatic Black and Cranberry White.