A couple of weeks ago, I ran a blog post about a new Sony Ericsson phone that’s heading our way, called the Kurara. It’s a new, Symbian-powered beastie, and I reckon it looks rather dashing. And now, we have a few more details of the phone, thanks to a preview on Mobile Review (Google-translated link, expect some dodgy grammar).
And I still reckon it’s look rather tasty.
As I said in the last post I did about, the SE Kurara is a Symbian-powered touchscreen phone, that seems to be following an ever-so-slightly different path to its sibling, the Sony Ericsson Satio. Where the Satio has gone for a 12MP camera, to provide the highest quality still images, the Kurara makes do with 8 megapixels (alright, granted, 8 megapixels is stretching the term “makes do” a bit), but what it’s traded off in terms of extra megapixels, it gains in having full HD video capture, running at 720p resolution. So, while it might produce still images that aren’t quite as sharp as the Sony Ericsson Satio, the video it chucks out will be streets ahead.
The big concern expressed in the preview is that the Kurara might not be priced right to get a lot of people to buy it. They seem to be suggesting that it’ll be too expensive to really capture people’s imaginations (and their wallets).
Well, I’m not convinced that’ll be the case. Consider the Sony Ericsson Satio, the Kurara’s older sibling. What always surprise me about it is that it costs so little to actually get hold of one. Even when it first came out, I was genuinely shocked by how low a tariff you had to go on to get the phone free. We’re talking, currently, 35 nicker a month, on a 12 month contract, and the phone’s free. Compare that with the X1 Xperia, when I got it, which was £90 for the phone on an 18 month, £35 tariff. When you factor in what the Satio can do, it really is ludicrously cheap.
Soooooooooo, why should the Kurara be any different…?
I’m predicting that if it follows the pricing model of the Satio, we could be seeing another winner here. Of course, it still has to prove itself against the other phone that will do HD video (you know, the Samsung i8910 HD, the phone that’s nigh-on perfect), but if Sony Ericsson get the price right, I still reckon they’re onto a winner…
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