Latest Gadgets T-Mobile Sidekick 4G by Samsung

Latest Gadgets - T-Mobile Sidekick users can be a bit 'shocked when it was announced, the popular press and hold the May 31 stop data service. Although the service interruption is certainly difficult, but that does not mean the end of the Sidekick - on the contrary, actually. His T-Mobile Sidekick 4G, which will offer $ 99 on April 20 with a two-year contract and after a $ 50 rebate, the increase of the pump in the operating system Android, Sidekick line features new touch screen improved messaging, among other things, that the earlier models, T-Mobile Sidekick 4G by Samsung will be not for everyone, but we felt a bit like her. Read on to see if it suits you.

It is nearly two years ago, the last review on T-Mobile Sidekick, is a huge understatement to say that things have changed. Then they passed dangerous design, produced by Sharp, and the selected message to your phone. Today, the confusion and the failure of the company Sidekick empire is in ruins. But good ideas, and their lives, many of the risks of injury and the brightest in Mountain View, California.

Android - Andy Rubin founded Danger, the design Director Mattias Duarte honeycomb built (after helping develop the Helio Ocean and Palm web OS) and now the founder of her own Sidekick at home Google joins build. In many ways, the Sidekick 4G a return to form, but filled with an ecosystem of Android devices is similar, maybe different from the crowd?

Design T - Mobile Sidekick

Although Samsung has taken the reins of Sharp, the company wisely made much of the design features, the Sidekick a Sidekick. 4G T-Mobile Sidekick is always a factor landscape oriented disk shape and is about the same size (2.4 cm wide and 5 cm wide and 0.6 cm thick) as the Sidekick, LX, 2009, but c 'is a bit thinner, which aren' t as many holes or protruding buttons. As a result, the phone is smooth and slips into a pocket lighter.

Features T - Mobile Sidekick

• The Sidekick 4G has a plastic construction and feels relatively lightweight but solid


• Four navigation controls that occupy each corner of the handset.


• Sidekick 4G has a 3.5-inch touch screen--a first for a Sidekick.


• Pinch-to-zoom support.


•  Two hallmark features of all the Sidekick models. 


• Five-row QWERTY keyboard


• 3.5mm headphone jack, a volume rocker, and a power button on the left side (when held in portrait mode) and a Micro-USB port and camera button on the right.


• MicroSD expansion slot behind the battery door. 


• Sidekick 4G comes packaged with an AC adapter, a USB cable, a preinstalled 2GB microSD card, and reference material, and you can purchase the smartphone in either matte black or pearl magenta.

User interface and software

• T-Mobile Sidekick 4G now runs on the Android operating system, more specifically Android 2.2.1. 


• Sitting on top of Froyo is Samsung and T-Mobile's custom Kick UX interface


• Customizable the seven home-screen panels with various themes and wallpaper that are slightly flashier than most

The screen on the Hiptop 1, 2, 3, Sidekick iD, Sidekick 2008, Sidekick LX and Sidekick LX 2009 runs 180 degrees around the QWERTY keyboard. Hiptop slide screen is too easy to show the keypad. There are two buttons on the left side of the device ("menu" and "jump") and two on the right side ("Volver" and "Cancel"). On all Hiptops except the original, the left is a control pad on the right side a scroll wheel (Hiptop 2) or trackball (Hiptop 3, LX, 2008, 2009 and slideshow.) The Hiptop 2 and Slide is pad has internal multicolored LEDs in ringers and notifications, while 3, 2008, and 2009 LX trackball has internal multicolored LEDs that offer the same function. The right side also has two phone buttons: call send (see also page-down) and hang up (see also page-up).

On the top two shoulder buttons (application specific). Bottom of the volume control and power button. Hiptop line design level, will be held with both hands, sew two thumbs, like a Game Boy Advance video game controllers or console advice. This design, with most of the other phone has a vertical design.


Good : The T - Mobile Sidekick 4G addition of touch screen and the Android operating system is impressive. Pocket PC also provides enhanced messaging functionality, great call quality, and good camera.

Disadvantages : The user interface will not appeal to everyone. Smart phones can occasionally sluggish.

Bottom line : T - Mobile Sidekick's Sidekick 4G continue the legacy of a good news as equipment, but also as a great entry-level smartphone.