Nov 27, 2011 - 
Android 
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Android 2 Comments Sony Ericsson X8 Xperia Sim Free Mobile Phone – Black
- 3 Megapixel integral camera, to capture those important moments to share with your friends & family
- mp4
- Listen to MP3 and watch MP4 Movies
- Complete with the Android operating system
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8 – Smartphone – 3G – WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM – touch – Android – black
List Price: £165.99
Price: £110.00
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X8 – good for the price,
The Sony Ericsson X8
I’ve owned one of these for a while now, so here’s a few thoughts that may be of use if you’re considering this phone:
BUILD
Oddly, the front’s ok but the back cover is cheap and nasty, and creaks if you press it. I dropped the phone one morning getting onto the train and the casing flew off and the battery fell out. Three pieces of phone all over the floor. Luckily it all snapped together again no problem. It’s a budget phone, and you get what you pay for.
SCREEN
Not bad at all for the price. Fine for web browsing. Touchscreen not mega-responsive, but adequate.
ANDROID
Works ok on this model – it’s a bit clunky now and then. HTC Desire it ain’t. Some annoyances – touch the screen too long by accident and it thinks you want to add or remove widgets – a bit amateur in this sense.
MP3
Very good MP3 player – better than my iPod touch, and no daft sync type consolidate your market nonsense. Onboard speaker is fine. Get a 16 gig micro SD and you can put plenty of music on it.
CAMERA
Good in daylight – hopeless otherwise.
ALL IN ALL
I like the X8 – battery life is good so long as you remember to switch off wi fi and data traffic when not in use, and it does what it’s supposed to do. The phone’s OS works fine nearly all of the time (Angry Birds freezes sometimes). Shame about the bloatware though – why can’t I delete Timescape, Crazy Penguin, TrackID and all the other useless trap that it’s bundled with?
3.6 out of 5, rounded up to a 4.
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|good smart phone for price,
ive owned this phone for about 2 months and i love it,
the touch screen is really responsive, nearly as good as ipods,
the phone overall is exelent for the price,
android id good, but u cant get any app to sd card apps, and the internal memory is not that big,
but for the price, it is amazing
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