Specifications:
- Service Provider : T-Mobile
- Operating System : Android OS
- Screen Size : 3.5 inches
- Screen Details : 800-by-480, 16.7m-color TFT LCD capacitive touch screen
- Camera : Yes
- Network : CDMA
- Bands : 850, 900, 1800, 1900, 1700
- High-Speed Data : GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA
- Processor Speed : 1 GHz
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- 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 flavored styling is certainly a matter of taste, but if you want to display the user interface, you'll love it.
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Physical design and characteristics Sidekick makes some very bold design choices, in particular, change the default font in Android. I am a fan: I think it's Jazzy, and stands out, and replace the small icons for the words in bold in mind the Windows Mobile 7, a good way. Your taste 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. Sidekick is an unusual 4G Android phone, the project seeks to balance the current Sidekick technology Android classic look. Closed, 5.0 2.4 0.6 inches (HWD), 5.7 ounces is a mobile Sidekick traditional, slightly 'boat-shaped displays four buttons surrounding the 3.5-inch, 800 x 480 LCD and a small optical mouse replaces the Sidekick The track ball. Four key to the house Android, menus and Back buttons and a special key to jump, which can be configured to create keyboard shortcuts for different applications. 
In turn the 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. 
The Sidekick has a 4G standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, to better listen to your music and videos 
The 4G has a Sidekick 3 megapixels on its soft-touch, textured back. He feels very comfortable in the hand. 
The Sidekick comes with a few custom applications, "texting cloud", which allows you to text from the Internet. But I am also this picture is mainly to show what the default Android App list is similar the language design Sidekick. 
As you can see here, T-Mobile really customize the look of the basic features of Android. It's like the sheets of paper on "Battlestar Galactica" - each rectangle must have had a notch in it. 
This is one of the best keyboards on the phone is a business. These keys are super-easy to write about it. Please note that the T-Mobile to put smiley faces many as the key target market is, you know, really emo. 
The four keys to jump on the Sidekick corners are not as important as they were with the old operating system danger, so now only used for programmable shortcuts. 
Four keys to jump Sidekick angles are not as important as they were in the old operating system Danger The old "disco ball" light ball has been replaced by colored LEDs that can be configured to light when receiving messages. 
- You can write 4G Sidekick device screen using the keyboard, which includes Swype.
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- Phone Calls and Internet Connections
The Sidekick is an acceptable voice phone. Reception is average. The earpiece is loud, although it distorts slightly with loud inputs. On the other end, transmissions from the phone sound loud and a bit harsh or scratchy. A bit of background noise came through, but my voice was so much louder that it didn't matter. The speakerphone is excellent—loud and sharp, with clear transmissions. The phone paired quickly with my Aliph Jawbone Era Bluetooth headset ($129, 4.5 stars) for both calls and music, and I easily activated the accurate Google voice dialing from the headset.
The phone also supports T-Mobile's Wi-Fi calling. I tried it in several locations, and it's very dependent on the quality of your Wi-Fi signal. With a fast, clear connection, calls sound like they're on a cellular network, but they get choppy quickly as connections decline.
The phone runs on T-Mobile's so-called 4G HSPA+ 21 network here in the U.S., and on 2G EDGE networks both stateside and abroad; there's no international 3G support. Only two T-Mobile phones, this one and the Samsung Galaxy S 4G (4 stars, $199), actually support T-Mobile's 4G speeds. The company's other "4G" phones, the T-Mobile G2 (4 stars, $199) and MyTouch 4G (4.5 stars, $199), run at a slower pace called HSPA+ 14.4. Ideally, HSPA+ 21 should deliver speeds around 6Mbps down, although I didn't see that on any T-Mobile devices during my testing.
The phone also supports Wi-Fi 802.11n and Bluetooth. You can use the phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot for up to five devices, with the right plan.
Battery life was a bit of a concern—I got five hours, 20 minutes hours of talk time on the 1500 mAh battery—while T-Mobile advertises 6.5 hours.
OS and applications
Sidekick has the same specs on the phone the Samsung S Galaxy, and it works the same way as most of the media and high-end smartphones, Android today. It is a 1GHz processor, Samsung Hummingbird and serves as Android 2.2.1, tailored enough to make purists angry. (These people should look at the T-Mobile G2, however.) T-Mobile has replaced some of the default icons in the text, added some stylish-looking basic issues, and has changed the character under the icons for some small-caps . Overall, visual disturbances 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 point in this experience. You can also set up a Twitter account and Facebook, twice, without any explanation as to why.
Shortcuts are a major issue here. For example, custom lock screen has a track in the middle. Slide up and running a custom application configured I put my lock screen to launch e-mail. But the feeling has not sold HTC has a screen lock no longer functional.
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 the bright "disco ball" trackball alerts, custom red, blue and purple LEDs at the top of the screen to flash different colors if you have a new text message, or e-mail.
T-Mobile and Samsung have both added applications. Applications include exclusive Sidekick texting group "texting cloud," which lets you manage your text from the Internet. T-Mobile dropped TV T-Mobile, TeleNav GPS (which has worked well in my tests) and two apps, the App Pack and Highlight, which suggest other programs you love. ALLSHARE Samsung added, which is a DLNA client, you can read files stored on your phone with a HDTV television and too Media Hub expensive and films.
Otherwise, it is essentially Android. Of course, he was dressed, but none of the 100,000 applications that run on Android 2.2 should work here. Far from the dozen applications running on the old platform Sidekick. All components are standard here as Android, which means a wide selection of high quality Web browsers, some of which supports Flash 10.2, excellent Google and Microsoft Exchange email, calendar and contacts support, Twitter and Facebook Contact the integration of applications and all the usual features you expect from a smartphone.
Multimedia and Camera
Multimedia is a force here. The media under the Sidekick, known as the Press, combines music playback, video playback, and Slacker Radio. T-Mobile TV offers smooth, continuous and television screen. The phone has about 350 MB of internal memory and MicroSD card comes with a 2 GB memory, 32 GB of my SanDisk 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 is also a VGA camera on the front Sidekick is designed to work with T-Mobile Qik video chat, but we never had much luck with Qik. The company was recently bought by Skype, however, so we should see dramatic improvements in the quality of its video chat soon.
Conclusions
4G T-Mobile Sidekick is not a Sidekick. The Sidekick is an entity with a cool, simple and OS swivel screen. This platform is dead. Instead, what we have here is an inspired Sidekick Android phone with a keyboard impressive, a nice interface overhaul, and the occasional sour note (poor position to the volume knob, for one). This is the best mail-oriented smartphone T-Mobile.
That said, Our Choice Editors' typed smartphone T-Mobile T-Mobile G2, largely because manufacturers typically added to the Android division, and G2 produced similar glasses, without a graphic redesign.
The Sidekick is an acceptable voice phone. Reception is average. The earpiece is loud, although it distorts slightly with loud inputs. On the other end, transmissions from the phone sound loud and a bit harsh or scratchy. A bit of background noise came through, but my voice was so much louder that it didn't matter. The speakerphone is excellent—loud and sharp, with clear transmissions. The phone paired quickly with my Aliph Jawbone Era Bluetooth headset ($129, 4.5 stars) for both calls and music, and I easily activated the accurate Google voice dialing from the headset.
The phone also supports T-Mobile's Wi-Fi calling. I tried it in several locations, and it's very dependent on the quality of your Wi-Fi signal. With a fast, clear connection, calls sound like they're on a cellular network, but they get choppy quickly as connections decline.
The phone runs on T-Mobile's so-called 4G HSPA+ 21 network here in the U.S., and on 2G EDGE networks both stateside and abroad; there's no international 3G support. Only two T-Mobile phones, this one and the Samsung Galaxy S 4G (4 stars, $199), actually support T-Mobile's 4G speeds. The company's other "4G" phones, the T-Mobile G2 (4 stars, $199) and MyTouch 4G (4.5 stars, $199), run at a slower pace called HSPA+ 14.4. Ideally, HSPA+ 21 should deliver speeds around 6Mbps down, although I didn't see that on any T-Mobile devices during my testing.
The phone also supports Wi-Fi 802.11n and Bluetooth. You can use the phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot for up to five devices, with the right plan.
Battery life was a bit of a concern—I got five hours, 20 minutes hours of talk time on the 1500 mAh battery—while T-Mobile advertises 6.5 hours.
OS and applications
Sidekick has the same specs on the phone the Samsung S Galaxy, and it works the same way as most of the media and high-end smartphones, Android today. It is a 1GHz processor, Samsung Hummingbird and serves as Android 2.2.1, tailored enough to make purists angry. (These people should look at the T-Mobile G2, however.) T-Mobile has replaced some of the default icons in the text, added some stylish-looking basic issues, and has changed the character under the icons for some small-caps . Overall, visual disturbances 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 point in this experience. You can also set up a Twitter account and Facebook, twice, without any explanation as to why.
Shortcuts are a major issue here. For example, custom lock screen has a track in the middle. Slide up and running a custom application configured I put my lock screen to launch e-mail. But the feeling has not sold HTC has a screen lock no longer functional.
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 the bright "disco ball" trackball alerts, custom red, blue and purple LEDs at the top of the screen to flash different colors if you have a new text message, or e-mail.
T-Mobile and Samsung have both added applications. Applications include exclusive Sidekick texting group "texting cloud," which lets you manage your text from the Internet. T-Mobile dropped TV T-Mobile, TeleNav GPS (which has worked well in my tests) and two apps, the App Pack and Highlight, which suggest other programs you love. ALLSHARE Samsung added, which is a DLNA client, you can read files stored on your phone with a HDTV television and too Media Hub expensive and films.
Otherwise, it is essentially Android. Of course, he was dressed, but none of the 100,000 applications that run on Android 2.2 should work here. Far from the dozen applications running on the old platform Sidekick. All components are standard here as Android, which means a wide selection of high quality Web browsers, some of which supports Flash 10.2, excellent Google and Microsoft Exchange email, calendar and contacts support, Twitter and Facebook Contact the integration of applications and all the usual features you expect from a smartphone.
Multimedia and Camera
Multimedia is a force here. The media under the Sidekick, known as the Press, combines music playback, video playback, and Slacker Radio. T-Mobile TV offers smooth, continuous and television screen. The phone has about 350 MB of internal memory and MicroSD card comes with a 2 GB memory, 32 GB of my SanDisk 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 is also a VGA camera on the front Sidekick is designed to work with T-Mobile Qik video chat, but we never had much luck with Qik. The company was recently bought by Skype, however, so we should see dramatic improvements in the quality of its video chat soon.
Conclusions
4G T-Mobile Sidekick is not a Sidekick. The Sidekick is an entity with a cool, simple and OS swivel screen. This platform is dead. Instead, what we have here is an inspired Sidekick Android phone with a keyboard impressive, a nice interface overhaul, and the occasional sour note (poor position to the volume knob, for one). This is the best mail-oriented smartphone T-Mobile.
That said, Our Choice Editors' typed smartphone T-Mobile T-Mobile G2, largely because manufacturers typically added to the Android division, and G2 produced similar glasses, without a graphic redesign.
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