SonyEricsson Xperia X8 Hands On: Android Goodness at a Midrange Price!

SonyEricsson’s local PR lent me an Xperia X8 to test drive for a few weeks. So far, I’m liking the phone. It’s a midrange Android phone at a reasonable price (PhP 11,600). The size is somewhere in between a candybar phone and the bigger Xperia X10.

The phone has a 3-inch capacitive touchscreen with a 320x480 resolution, a 3-megapixel fixed-focus camera, 600 MHz processor, 160MB of internal storage, up to 32 GB SDHC storage, and a whole lot of Android goodness.

The phone is white, but a black Xperia X8 is reported to be coming soon.

My only gripe at this point is that it only comes with Android 1.6 (Donut), whereas most Android phones these days come with Eclair (2.1) or FroYo (2.2). SonyEricsson promises an upgrade sometime before the year ends, so I’m hoping that’s sometime soon.

I’ll post a full review soon.