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Coming after the 2010 first quarter release of the XPERIA X10, X10 Mini and X10Mini Pro, the year will not end before we see a new Android smartphone from the Japanese-Swedish phone maker Sony Ericsson.

Earlier rumoured as the Shakira which happens to be its production code name, the new XPERIA X8 gets released as a halfway smartphone between the X10 and the X10 Mini running the old Android 1.6 Donut. Readers can find a great selection of mobile phone offers for the Xperia X8 by doing a bit of comparing online first.

It is pitched to a younger, more trendy market with a vibrant color schemes of dark blue/white, aqua blue/white, pink/white, silver/white and all-white.

The XPERIA X8 offers a wealth of broadcasting and data connectivities starting with a quad band UMTS/HSDPA on 3G and a quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE on 2G. There’s WiFi 802.11 b/g and local data connectivity support from Bluetooth 2,1 with A2DP and microUSB 2.0.

SatNav also get supported from an in-built GPS broadcasting with A-GPS, a digital compass and Google Maps with Street View as well as Wiseplot (on free trial).

Sporting a touchscreen monolith body smaller than the X10 but is a full size handset larger than the X10 Mini, the new Android handsets measures 99 x 54 x 15 mm and weighing a light 104g.

Its façade is dominated by a 3-inch TFT HVGA capacitive touchscreen with 16 million colors and covered by a scratch-resistant glass. It comes with the usual accelerometer for auto rotate viewing. Imaging is average with a 3.2 megapixel fixed focus camera, no flash but with geo tagging and VGA video capture at 30fps.

It is doubtful that Sony’s Android line will inherit a Walkman legacy but the XPERIA X8 is a capable music phone on its own. It has a stereo FM broadcasting with RDS, the media players for favourite audio and video file formats, the familiar TrackID and PlayNow apps as well as a 3.5mm headphone diddley which some of its so-called Walkman phones don’t have.

Your multimedia files can be stored a 16GB microSD card which it supports on top of a 128 MB onboard individual memory. It even comes with a 2GB microSD card with the understanding kit.

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