Sony Ericsson has been release an update for Xperia X8, the Xperia Junior with less hardware specification compare to Xperia X10 family. It is getting the update the Android 2.1 Eclair update. This is great news for Xperia X8 user since Xperia X10 still delay the update for user in US.
Like the X10 Mini, Sony Ericsson put some new features on X8 as improvements to the X8 software. Fortunately X8 could use same software packages as the XPERIA X10 and X10 Mini, so when the software get updated, X8 is close behind to bring the same improvements.
The new extras features for X8 which bring by Eclair update will show up below:
- Bluetooth functionality improvements with support for sending and receiving pictures, contacts and more
- New back up and restore application, with extended content back up
- Automatic synchronization of your contact pictures between Facebook and your phone book
- Improved ways of handling pictures, audio, text and numbers in your messages
- web browser improvements to bring new web browsing experience to the user
The update is come through OTA, it will happens gradually. So, if the update for your Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8 is out, just check the SI-number that could found on the back of the phone than look it up in the list on the Sony Ericsson Product Blog page.

X8 is cheap version for Xperia Android version from SE. Unless the hardware specs, actually X8 and X10 are same.
Thanks to put the new features sony ericsson X8 in here.