Sony Ericsson Kurara accidentally announced early, promptly yanked

Apparently, a press release company accidentally released information about the Sony Ericsson Kurara (now known officially as “Vivaz”) before it was intended to be released. The news was subsequently yanked, but some have got their hands on the information.

The Sony Ericsson Kurara, which now bears an unfortunate official name, Vivaz, is a Symbian S60-based phone, featuring an 8.1 megapixel camera, GPS, 802.11b/g and Bluetooth. The phone uses microSD/microSDHC, seeing that Sony Ericsson has dropped support on Memory Stick Micro (M2) cards. It has a 3.5″ 360×640 pixel touchscreen display. As with other Sony Ericsson phones, the camera looks pretty good as it supports HD 720p video recording (and playback, of course), with auto focus, face detection, smile detection and digital zoom. Unfortunately, it comes with an LED flash, rather than a Xenon flash.

It comes in 4 colors, Silver Moon, Cosmic Black, Galaxy Blue and Venus Ruby, and will be released in Q1 of 2010, at around $670 and $750.

Via [MobileCrunch]