It’s All Pud: Sony To Start Turnaround With Tapioca?
As keen mobile watchers may have noticed, Sony Ericsson has recently become just Sony and all forthcoming devices will be branded as such, dispensing with the Ericsson bit that used to adorn the kit the company made. Following the release of the Xperia S a few weeks back, the newly single Sony let slip news of a new smartphone, known as the Sony Kumquat and described as an affordable Sony smartphone.
Well if the latest rumours are to be believed the Kumquat won’t be the only food-based, affordable smartphone to launch in the next couple of months, after new information emerged suggesting that a second Sony smartphone could be set to follow: the Sony Tapioca.
Specification for the Tapioca has been leaked and includes a 3.2 inch touch-screen (with a 320×480 pixel resolution), ban 800Mhz processor and 12MB of RAM. Furthermore, on-board memory is said to come in at 4GB, and the device is touted to sport a 3.2 mega-pixel camera and support for 3G and WiFi.
It’s nothing especially exciting, but those specs, if correct, virtually ensure that the smartphone will run on Android Gingerbread. However, its expected to be priced very competitively and so could make a decent splash on the smartphone market for Sony. We’ll see what comes of this one eh?
