The keyboard of the best mobile phone in America belongs to a new T-Mobile Sidekick 4G ($ 149 with contract). It is a classic, beautiful, spacious expanse of the row of five letters and numbers. Makes it easy to cut to list the top 10 telephone contacts. The rest of the phone is not bad, either. Sidekick is a style with a strong flavor is certainly a matter of taste, but if you want to display the user interface, you'll love it.
Physical design and characteristics
The Sidekick is some very bold design choices, especially by changing the standard fonts Android. I am a fan: I think it's jazzy, and it stands out and replaced with small icons in bold words remind me of Windows 7 Phone, in the right direction. Your tastes may vary.
Take what you already know the Sidekick. The old Sidekicks were generally made by Sharp, they run a single OS developed by a hazard as any mirror you do on the Internet. And they had their own service plans. The new Sidekick Samsung, and is an Android smartphone that uses the standard T-Mobile provides service smartphone.
Physical design and characteristics
The Sidekick is some very bold design choices, especially by changing the standard fonts Android. I am a fan: I think it's jazzy, and it stands out and replaced with small icons in bold words remind me of Windows 7 Phone, in the right direction. Your tastes may vary.
Take what you already know the Sidekick. The old Sidekicks were generally made by Sharp, they run a single OS developed by a hazard as any mirror you do on the Internet. And they had their own service plans. The new Sidekick Samsung, and is an Android smartphone that uses the standard T-Mobile provides service smartphone.
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| T-Mobile Sidekick 4G |
4G Android phone is a Sidekick unusual design tries to balance the current technology with the Android Sidekick classic look. Closed, the 5.0 by 2.4 by 0.6 inches (DRC), 5.7 oz phone has the traditional, a little boat-shaped look with Sidekick four buttons around a 3.5-inch, 800 x 480 LCD screen and a tiny Sidekick replacement optical mouse is a trackball. The four buttons are for Android Home, Menu and Back buttons, plus a touch of hop special, you can configure to create keyboard shortcuts for various applications.
In turn Sidekick hand, push the good of the screen is only a little stubborn and prisoner of war is a landscape QWERTY keyboard phone with five rows best I've ever seen. The design problem is, when you have the phone sideways, the power button and volume are exactly where, naturally, the rest of your thumb, and are very sensitive. So you end up accidentally hit often until you can provide.
I can not praise this keyboard is enough. The keys are firm and dislocation. There is a dedicated "@" key, a dedicated button smiley and two keys. All keys are separated enough, it is almost impossible to typographical error. It's just fantastic.
Telephone calls and Internet connections
The Sidekick is an acceptable voice phone. The reception is average. The detector is strong, although slightly distorted with entries aloud. At the other end, the transmissions from the phone and a little hard or rough. A little background noise came through, but my voice was so strong that it does not matter. The speaker is an excellent and safe, with clear transmission. The mobile phone supports the Bluetooth headset quickly Aliph Jawbone was ($ 129, 4.5 stars) for calls and music, and voice-activated dialing for easy Google says the helmet.
The phone also supports T-Mobile Wi-Fi calling. I have tried several places, and is very dependent on the quality of your Wi-Fi signal. After a quick, clear connection, calls sound as if they were in a cellular network, but they get moved fast connections to drop.
The phone works on HSPA network T-Mobile called 4G + 21 network here in the United States, and both 2G EDGE in the U.S. and abroad, there is no international support 3G. Only two phones T-Mobile, the Samsung 4G Galaxy and S (4 stars, $ 199), in that it supports 4G speeds of T-Mobile. Another company "4G" phones, T-Mobile G2 (4 stars, $ 199) and 4G myTouch (4.5 stars, $ 199), turn a slower pace called HSPA + 14.4. Ideally, the HSPA + is expected to provide an approximate speed of 21 to 6 Mbps, although I have not seen in any plane in the T-Mobile during my tests.
The phone is also Wi-Fi 802.11n and Bluetooth. You can use the phone as an access point Wi-Fi for up to five aircraft, with the right plan.
Battery life is a bit 'worried, I had five hours, 20 hours talk time, this 1500 mAh battery, and T-Mobile's advertised 6.5 hours.
OS and applications
The Sidekick is similar specifications on the phone to a Samsung S Galaxy, and performs the same as most mid-smartphones, today Android. It has a 1GHz processor and Samsung Hummingbird 2.2.1 runs on Android, personalized enough for the purists in a bad mood. (These people should look at the T-Mobile G2 in place.) T-Mobile has replaced some of the text by default icons, background themes to add some elegant in appearance, and changed the icons below the source of something case. In general, the visual changes are sharp and handsome.
The first ten minutes of phone use, even if I came across a small design errors. Sidekick is an attractive application (a step beyond most other Android phones) will not work properly with the keyboard open, living room transformed into a vertical position. Just as the layout of the volume, unfortunately, this was a blip in the experience. You can also set up a Twitter account and Facebook, twice, without any explanation as to why.
The connections are a big theme here. For example, the Child Protection on the screen is a strip in the center. Pull up, and when you start a custom application, I turned to lock the screen to launch an e-mail. Just not yet sold the feeling HTC working on the lock screen.
Skip Button allows many more shortcuts. While most phones have a touch of action programmable key-Go, you can have 35 years to launch different applications with combinations of riders and letters or numbers. That's cool, and once again it's not like any other Android phone on the market.
Replacing incandescent "Disco Ball" trackball alerts, customizable red, blue and purple LED in the top of the screen flashes different colors if you have a new text message or email.
T-Mobile and Samsung have added two applications. Applications include exclusive Sidekick group text messages "text cloud," which lets you manage the text of the Web. T-Mobile TV dropped the T-Mobile, TeleNav GPS (which has worked well in my tests), and two applications, App Pack and Highlight, which suggest other applications that you might like. Samsung AllShare added, which is a DLNA client for you to read files stored on your phone with a Media Hub HDTV and too expensive and Movie Store.
Otherwise, it is fundamentally Android. Of course, he was dressed, but none of the 100,000 applications that run on Android 2.2 should work here. It is far from the few dozen apps that ran on the platform Sidekick old. All components are standard Android here, which means a wide selection of high quality web browsers, some of which support Flash 10.2, excellent Google and Microsoft Exchange email, calendar and contacts support, Twitter and Facebook apps and the integration of contacts and all the usual features you expect from a smartphone.
Multimedia and Camera
Multimedia is a force here. The Sidekick called Media News Room combines music playback, video playback, and Slacker Radio. T-Mobile TV provides smooth, full-screen television stations continuously as well. The phone has about 350 MB of internal memory and comes with a MicroSD memory card 2 GB, 32 GB SanDisk my card worked fine.
You can sync music from your PC using free software double twist. All the usual music formats (including OGG) plays fine through the headset connector of 3.5 mm or Bluetooth. HD video up to 720p resolution also looks good, even if the phone does not support DivX (XVID format it supports similar, however.)
Sidekick camera is only 3 megapixels, and it is slow, with a lag of 1.7 seconds autofocus. But if you can stand the wait, it takes great pictures, clear and sharp, they compare favorably with 5-megapixel images from camera phones to others. The phone captures sharp, bright 720-by-480 videos at 29 frames per second, interior and exterior. There is no flash, but I find the camera phone flashes terrible anyway. As long as you have a little light, this phone is perfect for capturing your next party.
There's also a VGA camera in front of the Sidekick, which is designed to work with T-Mobile Qik video chat, but we never had much luck Qik. The company was recently acquired Skype, though, so we should see some improvements in the quality of the video chat as soon as possible.
Conclusions
T-Mobile Sidekick Sidekick is not 4G. Sidekick device was fresh, simple operating system and swivel screen. This forum is dead. Instead, here we have a Sidekick-inspired Android phone keypad with big, big redesign of the user interface and the occasional villain (which are in the wrong place, the volume button, a). This is the best message focused on the smartphone T-Mobile.
However, our decision to write keyboarder T-Mobile smartphones is the T-Mobile G2, largely due to additions Android manufacturers tend to be split, and the G2 offers similar features without redesign.
In turn Sidekick hand, push the good of the screen is only a little stubborn and prisoner of war is a landscape QWERTY keyboard phone with five rows best I've ever seen. The design problem is, when you have the phone sideways, the power button and volume are exactly where, naturally, the rest of your thumb, and are very sensitive. So you end up accidentally hit often until you can provide.
I can not praise this keyboard is enough. The keys are firm and dislocation. There is a dedicated "@" key, a dedicated button smiley and two keys. All keys are separated enough, it is almost impossible to typographical error. It's just fantastic.
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| T-Mobile Sidekick 4G |
Telephone calls and Internet connections
The Sidekick is an acceptable voice phone. The reception is average. The detector is strong, although slightly distorted with entries aloud. At the other end, the transmissions from the phone and a little hard or rough. A little background noise came through, but my voice was so strong that it does not matter. The speaker is an excellent and safe, with clear transmission. The mobile phone supports the Bluetooth headset quickly Aliph Jawbone was ($ 129, 4.5 stars) for calls and music, and voice-activated dialing for easy Google says the helmet.
The phone also supports T-Mobile Wi-Fi calling. I have tried several places, and is very dependent on the quality of your Wi-Fi signal. After a quick, clear connection, calls sound as if they were in a cellular network, but they get moved fast connections to drop.
The phone works on HSPA network T-Mobile called 4G + 21 network here in the United States, and both 2G EDGE in the U.S. and abroad, there is no international support 3G. Only two phones T-Mobile, the Samsung 4G Galaxy and S (4 stars, $ 199), in that it supports 4G speeds of T-Mobile. Another company "4G" phones, T-Mobile G2 (4 stars, $ 199) and 4G myTouch (4.5 stars, $ 199), turn a slower pace called HSPA + 14.4. Ideally, the HSPA + is expected to provide an approximate speed of 21 to 6 Mbps, although I have not seen in any plane in the T-Mobile during my tests.
The phone is also Wi-Fi 802.11n and Bluetooth. You can use the phone as an access point Wi-Fi for up to five aircraft, with the right plan.
Battery life is a bit 'worried, I had five hours, 20 hours talk time, this 1500 mAh battery, and T-Mobile's advertised 6.5 hours.
OS and applications
The Sidekick is similar specifications on the phone to a Samsung S Galaxy, and performs the same as most mid-smartphones, today Android. It has a 1GHz processor and Samsung Hummingbird 2.2.1 runs on Android, personalized enough for the purists in a bad mood. (These people should look at the T-Mobile G2 in place.) T-Mobile has replaced some of the text by default icons, background themes to add some elegant in appearance, and changed the icons below the source of something case. In general, the visual changes are sharp and handsome.
The first ten minutes of phone use, even if I came across a small design errors. Sidekick is an attractive application (a step beyond most other Android phones) will not work properly with the keyboard open, living room transformed into a vertical position. Just as the layout of the volume, unfortunately, this was a blip in the experience. You can also set up a Twitter account and Facebook, twice, without any explanation as to why.
The connections are a big theme here. For example, the Child Protection on the screen is a strip in the center. Pull up, and when you start a custom application, I turned to lock the screen to launch an e-mail. Just not yet sold the feeling HTC working on the lock screen.
Skip Button allows many more shortcuts. While most phones have a touch of action programmable key-Go, you can have 35 years to launch different applications with combinations of riders and letters or numbers. That's cool, and once again it's not like any other Android phone on the market.
Replacing incandescent "Disco Ball" trackball alerts, customizable red, blue and purple LED in the top of the screen flashes different colors if you have a new text message or email.
T-Mobile and Samsung have added two applications. Applications include exclusive Sidekick group text messages "text cloud," which lets you manage the text of the Web. T-Mobile TV dropped the T-Mobile, TeleNav GPS (which has worked well in my tests), and two applications, App Pack and Highlight, which suggest other applications that you might like. Samsung AllShare added, which is a DLNA client for you to read files stored on your phone with a Media Hub HDTV and too expensive and Movie Store.
Otherwise, it is fundamentally Android. Of course, he was dressed, but none of the 100,000 applications that run on Android 2.2 should work here. It is far from the few dozen apps that ran on the platform Sidekick old. All components are standard Android here, which means a wide selection of high quality web browsers, some of which support Flash 10.2, excellent Google and Microsoft Exchange email, calendar and contacts support, Twitter and Facebook apps and the integration of contacts and all the usual features you expect from a smartphone.
Multimedia and Camera
Multimedia is a force here. The Sidekick called Media News Room combines music playback, video playback, and Slacker Radio. T-Mobile TV provides smooth, full-screen television stations continuously as well. The phone has about 350 MB of internal memory and comes with a MicroSD memory card 2 GB, 32 GB SanDisk my card worked fine.
You can sync music from your PC using free software double twist. All the usual music formats (including OGG) plays fine through the headset connector of 3.5 mm or Bluetooth. HD video up to 720p resolution also looks good, even if the phone does not support DivX (XVID format it supports similar, however.)
Sidekick camera is only 3 megapixels, and it is slow, with a lag of 1.7 seconds autofocus. But if you can stand the wait, it takes great pictures, clear and sharp, they compare favorably with 5-megapixel images from camera phones to others. The phone captures sharp, bright 720-by-480 videos at 29 frames per second, interior and exterior. There is no flash, but I find the camera phone flashes terrible anyway. As long as you have a little light, this phone is perfect for capturing your next party.
There's also a VGA camera in front of the Sidekick, which is designed to work with T-Mobile Qik video chat, but we never had much luck Qik. The company was recently acquired Skype, though, so we should see some improvements in the quality of the video chat as soon as possible.
Conclusions
T-Mobile Sidekick Sidekick is not 4G. Sidekick device was fresh, simple operating system and swivel screen. This forum is dead. Instead, here we have a Sidekick-inspired Android phone keypad with big, big redesign of the user interface and the occasional villain (which are in the wrong place, the volume button, a). This is the best message focused on the smartphone T-Mobile.
However, our decision to write keyboarder T-Mobile smartphones is the T-Mobile G2, largely due to additions Android manufacturers tend to be split, and the G2 offers similar features without redesign.
