Touchscreen: Just great to use. The price range around 200 you get at present usually only devices with half resolution and resistive touch screen. Here a capacitive touchscreen has been installed. A feature I have not found or not activated get compared to the Hero: A sensor to dynamically adjust the display brightness. That I do not miss. Perhaps one is installed, but I can not control him. Much more important is the simple operation possible with a finger. The touch screen is very sensitive and the now very rarely to be seen small stuttering will be the update to Android 2.1 determines away. Likewise, perhaps multitouch is still retrofitted what is currently in the applications I tested (Photo Album, Browser) is missing. I do miss this feature is not necessarily because the Xperia X8 to zoom in and out of images of other opportunities offered
Sound: The device has a significantly better sound than the Hero with the built-in speakers. Handsfree with the Base hotline worked yesterday very good and loud. There were no echoes
Surface: The Xperia has a beautiful and well-structured for Android ratios surface that has us even fallen slightly better than the Hero, because you always get exactly shown, on which work screen you are.
Internet and Wi-Fi: surfing via WLAN worked well and quickly with the phone. The mobile website was built mirror a little faster than in the Hero. 802.11g was used to transfer with WPA2. 802.11n has not been used. That's too bad, but not important.
UMTS / HSDPA: has not yet been tested because the Base flatrate has not been activated :-)
A-GPS receiver and compass: The A-GPS receiver had felt after 5 seconds a GPS fix when leaving the house. This he held even in the attic. The receiver thus appears to be very sensitive. EGNOS data he has also received outside. Was Gestet with "GPS Status". The built-in 3D compass is just great and react rapidly and shows always nice to the direction, no matter how you rotate the phone. "C: GEO" (Free Geocaching program) worked with the best X8
Device configuration: With the phone two different cases were supplied in various colors that can be changed as needed. These are made of plastic. The phone has a contoured grip and is light in the hand. Battery and micro SD card are very easy to insert. Especially the included 2GB Micro SD card can be replaced quickly without removing the battery if the capacity was not enough
Camera: Hardly tested. But she made out yesterday for mobile Conditions good and quick pictures in sunlight. This feature was, just like the video tapes hardly tested because practically not needed by me. When I photograph, I take anyway to correct camera
Other: SMS and e-mail, has worked well. We really liked that the power button is mounted on top of the housing. Also there is a camera button on the bottom right of the page under the volume keys.
A test-pedestrian navigation with Google Navigation worked in our WLAN catchment area well. In particular, the rapid response of the 3D compass I really liked. This allowed me to quickly gain an overview of my current location. Per DB Navigator also succeeded in seconds a determination of the next stops of trains and public transport. Mobile tickets work with the device also.
Flexibility: There will soon be 100,000 Android applications in Android Market, including many theme packages. The surface can make yourself by pushing all pictograms to where you want to have back, use your own background images. When one which is still not enough, you can put themselves into the development of an alternative Android phone software program their own programs and surfaces. Own Android programs to develop is not very difficult. Accordingly, there is currently nothing more flexible on the market as phones with Android software
Oh, and normal phone (without handsfree) could with the X8 very good. The voice quality was a bit better than the HTC Hero
Addendum dated 31.01.2012
On my Xperia X8 has been running 10 days Android 2.3.7 [...]
In order for the mobile phone so far is running without any problems and crash-free. App2SD is now finally possible (install programs primarily on a SD card, instead of the scarce internal memory), it feels a little faster, the battery lasts amazingly, felt twice as long and the surface is even more freely configurable than from the surface Sony Ericsson was possible. That was indeed beautiful, but a bit slower than the current (unmodified base surface of Cyanogenmod).
We have for this Android upgrade requires almost a whole day, have to learn to install multiple development tools and use as well as dozens of forums ransacked because it unfortunately is no continuous guidance for the required update process and stable kernel that supports Wi-Fi, not just of the trees grow. CyanogenMod on the Xperia X8 I can currently only recommended for professionals who have previously dealt with ever easier to modifying equipment of competition (in our case, my second device HTC Hero, which also runs on Android 2.3.7 CynogenMod) and a bit of experience with Linux / Unix will not hurt, because in my path update some Linux were issue commands. Several manufacturers sided safety barriers are to circumvent the warranty is lost anyway, and I had the phone in between must be registered with almost the mobile throwing competition thanks to endless boot loop, but a debugging tool has me then but still saved. But now's it spitzenmässig stable without the app's Roadsync and from the alpine village Ischgl, which were forcibly installed previously. I hope that soon a Wiki on CyanogenMod appears with a sophisticated guide on how to do this upgrade.
Then I was even asked if you can use the Xperia X8 with a stylus pen / stylus. My answer: Yes, it works well with all pins that are suitable for sensitive capacitive touchscreens. Addiction simply by Amazon - Stylus iPad, Galaxy, sensation - and you will find it. These pens work, but they all have their advantages and disadvantages. Some people come better with pins to law and some that feel cumbersome and slow.
Then one more thing: The phone has now survived a few light drops undamaged. The value for money is still top, but it is of course clear that the Xperia X8 in most respects, can not keep up with in the meantime only 249 costing Galaxy S, even if it cost almost as much for my time of purchase.
