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SlashGear Reviews T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009

Kim Poh Liaw — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:13:07 +0000

Talk about messaging phones and you’ll inevitably get to the Sidekick. T-Mobile’s screen-flipping feature-phone has a history of offering smartphone style push email, web access and social networking with a straightforward UI; now there’s a new addition to the family tree, in the shape of the Sidekick LX 2009. The simple name-change over last year’s model hides a number of improvements, however, not least a stunning display, 3G and GPS. Are they enough to maintain the Sidekick reputation, or has the feature-phone crown been snatched away? Check out the SlashGear review here.

T-Mobile Start Selling SideKick LX 2009

Kim Poh Liaw — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:38:58 +0000

Inline with its schedule, the Sidekick LX is now available for $249.99 with 2-years service contract and mail-in-rebate. The retail package will include a 1GB microSD card and available in dark gray or maroon color. Just like all the Sidekick series, the new Sidekick LX has the swivel screen and full QWERTY keyboard, it also comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera, LED flash, bluetooth, Youtube viewer, video uploader and a 3.2-inch display screen in 854×480 resolution.

[via phonearena]

T-Mobile Announces Sidekick LX 2009, Available May 13th

Kim Poh Liaw — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:47:48 +0000

After much rumors on the new Sidekick LX, the 3G-enabled T-Mobile Sidekick LX is now officially announced with built-in support for the top social networking applications including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, as well as GPS-enabled Live Search.
Just like all the Sidekick series, the new Sidekick LX has the swivel screen and full QWERTY keyboard, it also comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera, LED flash, bluetooth, Youtube viewer, video uploader and a 3.2-inch display screen in 854×480 resolution.

T-Mobile has started the pre-order now. The Sidekick LX is expected to be available by May 13th for a price tag of $199.99 with 2-years service contract and mail-in-rebate. The retail package will include a 1GB microSD card and available in dark gray or maroon color.

Sidekick LX 2009 specifications:

Dimensions: 5.1 x 2.4 x 0.6 inches;
Weight: 5.7 ounces
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE worldphone (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
Dual-band UMTS/HSDPA (AWS Band IV & Band I)
1250 mAh Lithium Ion battery
Battery: 3G – 3 hours talk time, 6 days standby; 2G – 5.5 hours talk time, 8 days standby

[via gizmodo]

SideKick Blade Got FCC Approval

Kim Poh Liaw — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:03:11 +0000

The SideKick 2009 (SideKick Blade), rumored to be available from May 13th, has just got FCC approval now. The Sharp PV300 is the internal model number from Sharp. It has also approved with T-Mobile 3G wireless band. The first leaked live photos of the new SideKick was available in Feb this year, it will come with a 3.2 megapixel camera, 3.2-inch WVGA screen and microSD card slot.

In addition to the FCC approval, a leaked screenshot of T-Mobile internal inventory system has also got the new SideKick listed. It is said that the new SideKick will be available in Carbon and Orchid colors.

[via engadgetmobile]

Rumor: T-Mobile New Devices Roadmap for Q2-Q3 this year

Kim Poh Liaw — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:03:37 +0000

A roadmap of new T-Mobile USA mobile devices for Q2 and Q3 this year has been leaked this week with the SideKick 2009 and HTC smartphones on the list. The SideKick 2009, also known as SideKick Blade, has a 3.2 megapixel camera, pre-installed social networking softwares, 3.2-inch WVGA screen and microSD card slot. It will be released on May 13th according to the leaked roadmap.

The Sony Ericsson CS8 might not be a 8 megapixel cybershot phone with Android OS though. The CS8 is most likely comes with a QVGA (240 x 320) display screen only according to a device profile xml found on Sony Ericsson site recently.

Check out the full T-Mbile USA release roadmap below:

“Blade” (Sidekick 2009) – May 13

HTC Maple/Snap – July 1st (contrary to earlier speculation, this seems to confirm a T-Mobile variant)

HTC Rhodium/Wing II – July 22nd (also known as the Touch Pro 2)

HTC Sapphire/Magic – TBD (aka G2)

Sony Ericsson “CS8″ – June 24th (8mp camera? Is this the Android device they’ve been talking about?)

Nokia 1661 (prepaid) – April 29th (a week later than previously mentioned)

Samsung T349 (prepaid) – May 6th

Samsung T239 (prepaid) – May 13th

Samsung T559 – July 15th

Samsung T469 – July 15th (just a simple two-tone gray, apparently)

Samsung T749 – July 22nd (2 colors for this one: red/orange and two-tone gray)

Samsung T659 – August 19th

[via slashgear]

Rumor: SideKick 2009 in the wild

Kim Poh Liaw — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:03:36 +0000

With the recent leaked of the new SideKick 2009 (SideKick Blade), hiptop3 has been sent a first spyshot of the new SideKick 2009 messaging phone. According to the recent rumor, the new SideKick has a codename called SideKick Blade and will be available as SideKick 2009, running new Danger 5.0 OS. It will also have a 3.2 megapixel camera, pre-installed social networking softwares, 3.2-inch WVGA screen and microSD card slot.