Sony Ericsson Xperia X 8

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 is a mid-range 3G Android smartphone developed by Sony Ericsson in the Xperia series
in released in Q4 2010. It is sold in many countries worldwide, including the United States on AT&T Mobility and low-end pay-monthly contracts in the UK.
It originally shipped running Android 1.6 but was upgraded in early 2011 to Android 2.1.The phone has a 3.0-inch (76 mm) capacitive touch screen LCD. It has a resolution of 320 by 480 pixels half-size video graphics array (HVGA
) with 24-bit depth. On the back is a 3.2 megapixel camera with fixed focus. Photos can be geotagged. The camera can be accessed via the touchscreen menu, or via the dedicated camera button on the side of the phone. The Xperia X8 uses a 600 MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 processor, has a 3-axis accelerometer and built-in Global Positioning System (GPS), a digital compass, an ambient light sensor and a lug for attaching a strap.
Multi-touch support was also added to several aftermarket firmware versions (ROMS) which enabled users
to use basic multitouch gestures such as pinch to zoom, something that Sony Ericsson was adamant was impossible
on the X8.Sony Ericsson has made its own custom overlay on the Android system using an optimized version of the UX (user experience) interface, which consists of design elements, themes and custom applications. The four corners of the screen have replaceable shortcuts for commonly used applications. The main application is Sony Ericsson Timescape, a social networking application that combines messages from Facebook, Twitter, SMS and email into a flowing column on the home screen. Photos may be attached to contacts or sent to a Facebook account. The phone contains expected smartphone applications, and Wisepilot Navigation Software, Google Maps, YouTube, Sony's PlayNow Arena and TrackID (to identify a song by recording a small part of it).
Sony Ericsson was widely criticized by X8 users for failing to provide Android firmware upgrades
to 2.2 Froyo or 2.3 Gingerbread. They later stated that the phone's hardware was unable to run anything
beyond 2.1 Eclair. They were later proven wrong by the Android modding community, who released their own
versions of Android 2.2 and 2.3 in subsequent months which ran quite stably on the X8. This however, CyanogenMod released an 2.3 update for X8 which required rooting method along with Sony Ericsson 2011 models.[2] The current release for X8 is 7.1 which is based on Android 2.3.7.[3] GoLauncher can be installed on the Xperia X8 and turns the launcher into an Android 4.0 look alike. Developers in the XDA forums are currently working on a CyanogenMod9 (Android 4.0.4)unofficial port to the X8 with only the video encoding left to