Ah, it’s always nice to see a new Sony Ericsson phone get leaked, especially when it’s a proper, high-end smartphone. That description seems to fit pretty well for a phone that looks to be, to all intents and purposes, the younger sibling to the Sony Ericsson Satio (their big flagship phone, at least until the X10 gets released).
According to PhonesDB, it’s called the Sony Ericsson Kurara, it’s very definitely designed to sit in the top tier of Sony Ericsson’s smartphone range.
For starters, as you can tell from the pic, it’s a proper, full-on, touch-based phone (again, drawing parallels to the Satio), and it looks as though it’s running the same Symbian-based interface as the Satio. The screen’s the same size as that 12MP monster, although it’s said to be an AMOLED screen, which is considerably better than the TFT screen in the Satio.
And then, there’s the camera, which, on the Sony Ericsson Kurara, comes in at 8 megapixels. However, if you think that means it’s getting short-changed in the optics department, I invite you to have another hard look at the pic on this blog post, and notice what’s written next to the camera, on the back panel. I’ll give you a hint, it’s two letters, the first one’s ‘H’. And yes, the second one is ‘D’…
Yup, according to rumours elsewhere online, the Sony Ericsson Kurara has got HD video capture, at 720p resolution. And you know what that means? The Kurara’s not just the Satio’s baby sister, it’s looking lie it’s designed to take a shot right across the bows of one of the Satio’s closest rivals. You know the one I mean. The Samsung i8910 HD. The phone that is, in my eyes, a near-perfect Symbian phone. Soooooooo, it’s going to be very interesting to see how the two phones compare to each other. Sony Ericsson certainly seem to be getting their act together just recently, with phones like the WinMo-powered X2 and the Android-powered X10 (and of course the Satio), so I’m intrigued how it’ll compare to what is easily the nicest Symbian phone currently out there.
Also, its name is only two letters away from curare, a poison South American tribes tip their blowdarts in, that kills prey by relaxing their muscles and causing asphyxiation.
We’ll have to see if the Sony Ericsson Kurara can take our breath away like that (Haha! Geddit?! Oh, please yourselves)…
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