The Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 offers Assisted GPS enabling you to stay in the right direction with the integrated Google Maps, and find your way easily with the Wisepilot turn by turn navigation also. Additionally, it offers provides a 3.2 megapixel camera for photo and video capture, along with simple messaging and great entertainment features.
The phone has a WebKit web browser offering full HTML webpages with pan and zoom for added clarity, alongside the ability to create Bookmarks for easy future reference, and favourite sites. The handset also offers 3D games and supports Java, as well as including video streaming and viewing capabilities, including preloaded YouTube. There is also an FM radio in addition to the Music Player which offers album artwork for fast and easy finding of your music tracks for playback.
The Xperia X8 has integrated social networking with Facebook and Twitter for Timescape, which unifies social networking into one easy user interface, as part of the overall user experience offered for this Android smartphone. Text input and simple interface control is performed through the 3 inch capacitive touch display which offers a full QWERTY keyboard onscreen. As well as social networking, the handset also has easy messaging with a unified SMS and MMS editor, along with Conversations for threaded messaging, or Instant Messaging and email which can both be configured to commonly used providers, such as Google or Windows Live.
The handset features impressive location based services through its aGPS receiver, and the preloaded Google Maps for directions and world maps, in addition to turn by turn navigation offered by the Wisepilot application respectively. The handset is also capable of Geotagging your photos and videos captured with its 3.2 megapixel camera, which you can then send directly to friends via the phones social networking integration, messaging services or straight to your own personal blog or website. There is plenty of room to store your multimedia, including all of your music, with the microSD card slot for storage memory, which offers up to 16 gigabytes respectively. Additionally, the Bluetooth wireless connectivity and USB with mass storage support enable you to easily transfer files form the handset to a computer or other device for long-term storage.
The Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 is a compact and delightful handset offering an impressive camera as well as an array of preloaded applications which are really useful. Additionally, the Android operating system makes it possible for you to download more apps as you go with Android Market.