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Remember the Sony Ericsson Phone that carried the code name Kurara? Well, it has finally been made official as the ‘Vivaz’. I want to meet their marketing team, ’cause that’s one name I do not want that name on a phone I own! What the heck is a Vivaz?! Even if it is one of those fancy names, Kurara was much better. I can almost imagine what went on in the Marketing Department *cue: Dream sequence*.

It sounds to me like Sony Ericsson head honchos finally gave in and decided that between the Nexus One and the Apple Tablet and then the new iPhone, they would be lucky to get in any publicity around the launch of a new low end phone that is meant to serve as the consolation model for a high-end phone that didn’t really take-off. So they asked the marketing team to quickly come up with a name during the last 5 minutes of their lunch break before they sent the thing over to the graphic designers for all the PRs.

There isn’t much to say about the phone because the last leak said it all. This is meant to be the low end replacement for the 12 MO behemoth Satio. The press release was pulled by the company that put it up but the specs got documented immediately. The 8.1 MP camera is there, as is AGPS, WiFi, VT-out, etc. It is running on Symbian, just like the Satio. Price is unknown at this point but it will much cheaper than the Satio.

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