Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 review

The Xperia X8 was unboxed a good few months ago, but now here is the review with one small but important difference. It's now running the 2.1 Éclair update which may not be the latest but it's still better than 1.6 was. That has now brought it up to scratch with other options for cheapish midrange Android handsets, but it's not alone - the likes of the Wildfire and the San Francisco sell like hotcakes, a trend which Sony Ericsson would no doubt like the X8 to follow.

The X8 slots in somewhere in-between the daddy X10 and the X10 mini & mini pro but with specs more like the minis, its actually a very similar experience but in a slightly larger form factor and that could well be a good thing. The X10 minis received excellent reviews with the main criticism that it was too small - but the X8 is the answer to that call.

Does it have enough to compete? Read on to find out!

 

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Russia Loses Contact with Military Satellite

Russia said it lost contact Tuesday with a military satellite launched that morning. The incident follows on the heels of Russia's failed launch of three GLONASS-M satellites in December.

Update: GPS Testing off Southeast Atlantic Coast

FAA and Coast Guard advisories about GPS testing by the Department of Defense, which advised "During testing, the GPS signal may be unreliable or unavailable," turn out to be, if not routine, at least fairly frequent, and not a cause for great concern. Richard Langley investigates.

giveaway: Enzym 3D GPS navigation system

We’re giving away this week a GPS navigation system that we’ve had in our garage for a long time now. The device is called Enzym 3D SG-350 and we’re not even sure they have a presence in the U.S. market any longer. We’ve used this many times before and it still works quite well but like we said before but we’re clearing out the garage so it must go. This GPS navigation system has a 3.5″ screen, touch screen display, text-to-speech engine, SD card slot, ability to play MP3 and video files. It even comes with a car kit which includes a car charger and a windshield mount.

How to enter? Really easy. 1) Follow our RSS feed and then 2) leave a comment below. That is all. Do make sure you enter a valid email so we can contact you back.

We will ship this out to a U.S. address only. Sorry rest of the world. Also duplicate entries, emails, IP addresses will be disqualified.

One week from now we’ll announce the winner.

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