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A Guide Of The Sony Ericsson X8

By Ora Hogg


Sony has been at the forefront of designing highly rated devices and Sony Ericsson X8 is among the products of this continued innovation. It is a 3G smart phone, which is of middle range powered by the android operating system. The device market base is wide and the United States is one of the popular markets. Initially shipping done to the phones operated on Android 1.6 but from early 2011, they upgraded it to the newer version 2.1. The small nature of the gadget makes it a preference for many people.

It has a 76mm capacitive touch screen, which is the equivalent of three inches. The resolution of the camera at the back is 3.2 mega pixels and this camera can be accessed either through the backside camera button or touch screen menu. One exciting camera feature is that it allows geotagging of photos.

To support the range of applications it runs, it has a Qualcomm processor. With the processor running at a speed 600 megahertz, this ensures maximum efficiency. Auto rotation of phone is enabled by the three-axis accelerometer. For travelers, there is an inbuilt GPS functionality. There is presence of a digital compass and a lug whose purpose is to attach the strap. It also has a scratch resistant surface.

There are custom phone applications available but also other open source programs can be installed. These applications include themes, design elements and custom programs. There are shortcuts place on the four corners of phone screen. These shortcuts are changeable. One of common social networking applications available on the gadget is Timescape. It has the ability to combine messages from different networking sites messages into flowing column positioned on the home screen.

Most of common software of this company is available. These include TrackID, WisePilot navigation, PlayNow Arena and Google maps. There are also other applications available, which fall under the range of the supported software. After the OS upgrade in 2001, the gadget has now embraced many more applications.

The design of the device is very impressive. It has three front buttons namely the Home, menu and back buttons. On the right side of phone are the dedicated camera and the volume key. On the top are the USB port, headphone jack, the button for powering on, and locking the screen.

The mentioned features are not the only present ones in Sony Ericsson X8. It offers support for an external memory card, an adobe flash player application, Wi-Fi, a radio and a music player among others. They are not limited to just these as there are a host of many others.




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