Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 Refurbished on Orange

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 features a stunning 3.0 inch touchscreen display which employs capacitive technology for a more intuitive user experience. The Xperia X8 runs the Android operating system letting you download apps from the Android Market and access Google content on your phone. Sony Ericsson Timescape puts your contacts and communications into one place so you can start up a conversation via SMS and continue it by email. The X8 sports a 3.15 Megapixel camera with geo-tagging, HSDPA and Wi-Fi, GPS, 128MB internal memory and a memory card slot.[more info]

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Sony Ericsson slaps Walkman logo on X8, renames it W8

Take one Xperia X8, add a dash of color, paint a "W" on it and, voilà, you have the first Walkman phone running Android -- the W8. We're not seeing it on the US Sony Ericsson site yet, but a quick visit to the company's German page reveals the decidedly low-end specs: a 3-inch, 320 x 480 touchscreen, a 600MHz processor, 168MB of RAM and Android 2.1. The W8 may not recapture the luster the Walkman brand enjoyed in its TPS-L2 heyday, but at least it'll update your Twitter status. Galler

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Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro successor spotted as SK17i, sports Gingerbread

Looking for your fibrous dose of gadget leak? Look no further than China which has, again and again, outed several spy shots of what appears to be the Xperia X10 Mini Pro's successor. Dubbed the SK17i and codenamed "Mango," this time we're looking at some proof of Android 2.3 on this little Sony Ericsson slider, along with a homescreen UI not dissimilar to that of the X10 Mini and X8 series. Other than that, we're not seeing anything new here, though we can't help but wonder if the unused Xperia Duo trademark has finally found its rightful owner -- you know, maybe Duo as in a two-part slider phone? As always, only time will tell.

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