{"id":204614,"date":"2010-01-20T13:08:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T18:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=25118"},"modified":"2010-01-20T13:08:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T18:08:05","slug":"sony-ericsson-kurara-accidentally-announced-early-now-known-as-%e2%80%9cvivaz%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/204614","title":{"rendered":"Sony Ericsson Kurara accidentally announced early, now known as \u201cVivaz\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Vivaz1-630x417.png\" alt=\"Vivaz1\" title=\"Vivaz1\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25119\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you just hate it when some big dumb press release company spills the beans on your top secret product long before you intended? Wait, you&#8217;ve never experienced that? Well, neither have we. We were just trying to, you know, connect with our readers or something.<\/p>\n<p>Sony Ericsson, on the other hand, <em>has<\/em> felt that burn. Just today, in fact! We&#8217;d already heard rumors and tales of an 8 megapixel Symbian phone called the Sony Ericsson Kurara; thanks to some mis-scheduling, it&#8217;s now about as official as things get.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-25118\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s what we learned before they pulled down the presser:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Kurara is now called the &#8220;Vivaz&#8221;. We liked the old name better; it reminded me of that &#8220;your crew run run&#8221; line in Notorious B.I.Gs &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wk4ftn4PArg\">Hypnotize<\/a>&#8220;.<\/li>\n<li>It will launch sometime in Q1 of 2010 &#8212; in other words, sometime in the next 2-3 months.<\/li>\n<li>Four colors: Silver Moon, Cosmic Black, Galaxy Blue and Venus Ruby.<\/li>\n<li>8.1 megapixel camera, capable of recording video at 720p, with continuous autofocus, geotagging, smile detection, and image stabilization.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;ll run S60 5th edition with the same stylistic tweaks as you&#8217;d find on the Sony Ericsson Satio<\/li>\n<p>One detail the press release skimped on was the price. According to the dudes over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phonearena.com\/htmls\/Sony-Ericsson-Kurara-is-now-officially-the-Vivaz-article-a_9016.html\">PhoneArena<\/a>, we should expect it to come in somewhere between $670 and $750 bucks.<\/p>\n<p><style type='text\/css'>\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t<\/style>\n<p>\t\t<!-- see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php --><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-25118'>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/01\/20\/sony-ericsson-kurara-accidentally-announced-early-now-known-as-vivaz\/vivaz1\/' title='Vivaz1'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Vivaz1-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"Vivaz1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/01\/20\/sony-ericsson-kurara-accidentally-announced-early-now-known-as-vivaz\/vivaz2\/' title='Vivaz2'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Vivaz2-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"Vivaz2\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/01\/20\/sony-ericsson-kurara-accidentally-announced-early-now-known-as-vivaz\/vivaz3\/' title='Vivaz3'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Vivaz3-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"Vivaz3\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/01\/20\/sony-ericsson-kurara-accidentally-announced-early-now-known-as-vivaz\/vivaz4\/' title='Vivaz4'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Vivaz4-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"Vivaz4\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>\t\t\t<br style='clear: both;' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Crunch Network<\/em><\/strong>:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\">CrunchGear<\/a><em> <\/em>drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/MxHlvArsG2035AwBsZYEl25nIqQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/MxHlvArsG2035AwBsZYEl25nIqQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/MxHlvArsG2035AwBsZYEl25nIqQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/MxHlvArsG2035AwBsZYEl25nIqQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=lDzQhoad6M0:mzLnneakTuQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=lDzQhoad6M0:mzLnneakTuQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=lDzQhoad6M0:mzLnneakTuQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=lDzQhoad6M0:mzLnneakTuQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=lDzQhoad6M0:mzLnneakTuQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t you just hate it when some big dumb press release company spills the beans on your top secret product long before you intended? 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