T-Mobile Sidekick 4G

The T-Mobile Sidekick 4G is a terrific messaging smartphone with a very strong, unique design viewpoint.

T-Mobile Sidekick 4G Closed

The Sidekick 4G is completely usable closed; it's an Android phone, and you can do everything you need with the touch screen and jump keys. 

T-Mobile Sidekick 4G Open

Here's the Sidekick open, showing the backlit keys and one of its Android home screens. 

T-Mobile Sidekick 4G Dialer

As you can see here, T-Mobile really customized the look of Android's core features. It's a little like the sheets of paper in "Battlestar Galactica" - every rectangle has to have a notch taken out of it.

T-Mobile Sidekick 4G Keyboard

You're looking at one of the best keyboards in the phone business. These keys are super-easy to type on. Notice that T-Mobile put emoticons on many keys because the target market is, y'know, really emo.

T-Mobile Sidekick 4G Closed Back

The Sidekick 4G has a 3-megapixel on its soft-touch, textured back. It feels very comfortable in the hand.

Spec Data

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

Megapixels 3 MP

Camera Flash No

802.11x Yes

Bluetooth Yes

Web Browser Yes

Form Factor Slider

Network CDMA

Bands 850, 900, 1800, 1900, 1700

High-Speed Data GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA

Storage Capacity (as Tested) 349.18 MB

Processor Speed 1 GHz

Keyboard Yes

Continuous Talk Time 4 hours 32 minutes

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