This mechanism was one of the things that made the Sidekick what it was. You pushed at the screen’s top right edge with a finger and it rather boisterously swivelled round 180 degrees to reveal a QWERTY keyboard. All previous Sidekicks have had a ‘flip and swivel’ screen. In the reworking of the Sidekick’s looks it has lost a real wow feature. Unfortunately, the plastic used for the casing is a bit of a fingerprint magnet. A black and blue livery replaces the black and silver of the Sidekick 3. Motorola has taken over the design from Sharp, and this has had a huge effect on look and feel. T-Mobile may be crowing about the Slide being the smallest, slimmest Sidekick yet, but the device is still big for a mobile phone at 60 x 110mm, 17mm thick and a hefty 150g. This means not only can you make diary changes and suchlike without fiddling with the Sidekick Slide itself, but you have a backup if your device gets lost – and one which can be downloaded to a replacement Slide. You can get to this information from any computer, and make edits or changes, which are themselves transferred back down to your Slide.
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In both software and hardware terms the Sidekick Slide is similar to its predecessors, A key selling point of the Sidekick Slide is the ‘Web portal’.īasically everything you store on the Slide is automatically backed up to a password protected Web site. But T-Mobile clearly is smitten, and now brings the latest version, renamed the Sidekick Slide, over from the US. Too big, too clunky, too mid-range in specs, I always thought.Įarly in 2007 the Sidekick 3 didn’t bowl me over, but then I hadn’t been very impressed by earlier versions of the device, either. The “moving the Sidekick to Android” part seems to indicate that Danger and Microsoft won’t have anything to do with this one.I’ve never been convinced by the ‘yoofy’ IM-generation oriented Sidekick.
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I asked which company would manufacture the handset, which resulted in the “we have no further information” quip but it appears that the device will more or less be an Android phone donning the Sidekick name.
So it looks like the “Sidekick” name is T-Mobile’s. We have no further information to share at this time but will be in touch when we do.” T-Mobile will continue to provide the best customer service for our loyal T-Mobile customers. Android continues to provide a rich platform for innovation – allowing us to build compelling services and applications across our device lineup. “It is T-Mobile’s belief that moving Sidekick to Android will allow for more rapid innovation, delivery of 4G experiences, and higher customer satisfaction. That, or Microsoft’s branching out to Android, which seems least likely.įollowing up with the PR rep, I got this: So either the “Sidekick” name is solely owned by T-Mobile or it’s being spun off from Danger/Microsoft (Motorola and Sharp have both developed past Sidekick phones in partnership with Danger).
The article speculates on the operating system and I just wanted to point out that T-Mobile did confirm the new Sidekick will run on Android.” “I saw your post on Techland regarding the new T-Mobile Sidekick and I wanted to confirm that it’s true, we will launch a new 4G T-Mobile Sidekick available in 2011 running on the Android operating system. How about that? I got this statement from T-Mobile’s PR rep:
It almost looks like a slide-up screen, too, instead of the flip-around style made famous by the earlier models. There’s not much discernable detail for the Sidekick, though the screen does look relatively big compared to previous versions.
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