14 DAY TRIAL // For some time now, leaked information about Sony Ericsson working on a new Cybershot model has been circulating on the Internet, and it seems that this fall, besides the Xperia X1, the Swedish-Japanese giant manufacturer also has a couple of mid/high-end devices in store for us. Apparently, the company is working on a k750 successor, codenamed Kate.
Of course, there's little information available on this one but we have been able to find a few things about its specs along with some blurry photos, which might prove to be fake – still, we'll have to wait until the phone hits the market to see that.
Apparently, the phone comes with a 5 Megapixel camera with Xenon Flash (as seen in the photos), it's a bit thicker than Sony Ericsson's C902, has no GPS and no frontal camera for video calling, though it does have a light sensor, a switch button between Still & Video as well as a button to access gallery of recently taken images, Sony Ericsson’s Java Platform 8.4 and 'Smile Shutter' (without 'Smart Contrast'). It is expected to have at least EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA and also Bluetooth 2.0 (as found on many of SE's handhelds).
These are all the details we could find on Kate so far. The phone, judging by the features presented above, seems to be a mid-range one, and the price it will sell for is rumored to be somewhere between 300 USD and 450 USD, without a contract, of course.
The only thing to do now is to wait for more news about Sony Ericsson's new Cybershot and see where and when it will land. The good part is that they say it's going to be released in October, so the waiting won't be long. The rumor could be backed up by the photos we found, if they are indeed real, though I guess only time will tell.
