Sony Ericsson Xperia X8

The Sony Ericsson X8 should have a lot going for it, as it's a small, affordable Android phone that packs in all the essential features. However, it doesn't quite hang together and there are simply better cheap Android phones available.

Sony Ericsson has had a bit of a topsy turvy time with its Android phones over the years. Its first few attempts, including the Xperia X1and Xperia X10, didn't quite get the balance right but the X10 mini and X10 mini pro both impressed us and were intriguing options if you were looking for a particularly small phone.

GENERAL

2G Network

GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network

HSDPA 900 / 2100

HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100

Announced 

2010, June

Status

Available. Released 2010, September

SIZE 

Dimensions 99 x 54 x 15 mm

Weight

104 g

DISPLAY

Type

TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

Size 

320 x 480 pixels, 3.0 inches

- Scratch-resistant surface

- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate

- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off

- Timescape UI

SOUND

Alert types

Vibration, MP3 ringtones

Loudspeaker

Yes

3.5mm jack

Yes

MEMORY

Phonebook

Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall

Call records

Practically unlimited

Internal

128 MB storage, 168 MB RAM

Card slot

microSD, up to 16GB, 2GB included, buy memory

DATA 

GPRS

Up to 85.6 kbps

EDGE 

Up to 236.8 kbps

3G

HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps

WLAN

Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g

Bluetooth

Yes, v2.1 with A2DP

Infrared port 

No

USB

Yes, v2.0 microUSB

CAMERA

Primary 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, 

Features Geo-tagging

Video

Yes, VGA@30fps

Secondary

No

FEATURES 

OS

Android OS, v1.6 (Donut), upgradable to v2.1

CPU

600 MHz ARM 11 processor, Adreno 200 GPU, Qualcomm MSM7227 chipset

Messaging 

SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push email, IM

Browser 

HTML

Radio

Stereo FM radio with RDS

Games

Yes

Colors 

White, Dark Blue/ White, Aqua Blue/ White, Pink/ White, Silver/ White

GPS

Yes, with A-GPS support

Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator

- SNS integration

- Digital compass

- MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player

- MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV player

- TrackID music recognition

- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,

YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk

- Voice memo

- Predictive text input

BATTERY 

 Standard battery, Li-Po 1200 mAh

Stand-by 

Up to 446 h (2G) / Up to 476 h (3G)

Talk time 

Up to 4 h 45 min (2G) / Up to 5 h 40 min (3G)

Music play 

Up to 23 h 40 min

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