I signed into my Facebook and Twitter accounts, and updates from these networks flashed across the top of the screen in banner-like news flashes. I brought the Sidekick LX with me for a weekend in Boston and its good-quality camera came in handy as I wandered Copley Square and snapped photos of still-blooming tulips in bright colors. It comes with a 1-gigabyte microSD card, but this memory card can be accessed only by pulling off the device’s back panel instead of via a card slot on the side. The Sidekick LX, however, has some hearty extras including a generous 3.2-inch display, a 3G connection that makes it easy to use for quickly browsing the Web, built-in GPS and a 3.2-megapixel camera (like the BlackBerry Storm and new BlackBerry Curve 8900 cameras). You have to lift up the nestled-in screen before it turns to flip out, and I found it a little harder to open with just a push of my left thumb. Compared with past Sidekicks, this one has a design that feels flatter thanks to a thin flip-out screen that smoothly blends into the device in its closed position. The LX is the thinnest Sidekick yet, but it still looked rather large lying next to my BlackBerry Curve 8300 and an iPhone it measures 1.3 and 2.16 cubic inches larger than each, respectively. The T-Mobile Sidekick LX has the device’s traditional swing-out screen but is the thinnest Sidekick yet. Instead, you’re stuck using a trackball to repeatedly scroll through a crowded, 15-menu wheel.
It’s easy to imagine using a finger to flick and spin the Sidekick’s on-screen menu wheel, tapping on one to open it. The absence of a touch screen is glaring on such an expensive device, especially one with a screen this large.
SIDEKICK LX VS SIDEKICK 3 DOWNLOAD
(T-Mobile says the Sidekick LX should be able to get Exchange support from the device’s Download Catalog “in the coming months,” but wouldn’t be more specific.) The Sidekick also lacks Wi-Fi capability, which is also true for the BlackBerry Storm but not so for the iPhone, which works with 3G or Wi-Fi networks.
SIDEKICK LX VS SIDEKICK 3 UPGRADE
A Download Catalog works like Apple’s (AAPL) popular App Store by bringing games, apps, themes and sounds directly to the device.īut this Sidekick’s pricing doesn’t make much sense in our current recession: It will cost $250 after a mail-in rebate for new T-Mobile customers who sign up for a two-year contract current T-Mobile customers who are eligible for an upgrade will pay $200 after the same discounts.įor $200, you could buy Apple’s iPhone or Research In Motion’s (RIMM) BlackBerry Storm, which both have touch screens and come with Microsoft Exchange support that synchronizes the device with corporate email accounts. It still bears the flashy, hip features that distinguished older Sidekicks, and newly integrated social-networking apps for Facebook, MySpace and Twitter enhance these traits. This week, I tested the T-Mobile Sidekick LX to see how this old chestnut fared with some new polishing inside and out.
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