![]() ![]() I understand they did it for making phone calls in Portrait mode where the trackpad won’t be in the way, but for Landscape mode w/ the keyboard exposed it would be more effective if it was a little higher for a better overall experience. It lies slightly recessed in between the Back and the Menu buttons but could have about a 1mm higher. And finally, the placement of the optical trackpad could have been raised a little more. Don’t get me wrong, the 3MP takes way better photos than the 3.2MP camera on my Bold 9700 but for nitpicking purposes I would have loved to see Samsung put a 5MP shooter on this one. Also the MP on the camera could have been at least a 5 instead of a 3. As downloading and multi-tasking goes it gets the job done but it did suffer from the occasional stutter and force closing of apps when having several apps open and running in the background. The 512MB of RAM could have been increased to maybe 768MB or even 1GB. I don’t necessarily miss the swivel but I think the opening of the screen should have been constructed for a single-handed opening. Although it is well built and definitely sturdy, it is not as easy to open single-handedly. For starters, as cool as the design is, the new spring-loaded flip up display is slightly flawed. The new Sidekick 4G is great but not quite smartphone perfection. With most of the internal specs being borrowed from the Galaxy S devices (1GHz Hummingbird processor, 512MB of RAM, and great graphics processor) the Sidekick is no slouch as an Android device at all for all of you naysayers out there. I was able to get almost a full day’s of normal usage (TweetDeck, web browsing, texting, emailing, Words With Friends, & Angry Birds) of about 10 hours. Armed with a 1500mAh battery, the Sidekick has provided one of the better battery lives on an Android device without having to lower brightness or adjust other settings. As well as being able to share those speeds by the way of mobile hotspot. I was able to get around 6Mbps download and almost 2Mbps upload speeds at home makes it for great speeds on the go. Android brings a plethora of new features to the Sidekick brand like great web browsing with Flash support, front-facing camera gives you video calling options, new touchscreen w/ Swype pre-loaded gives you the options so you won’t have to even access your physical keyboard, and of course being HSPA+-capable is a plus. The design of the Sidekick that you remember is still somewhat intact but the fact that it runs Android now changes everything you thought you knew about it. T-Mobile is dead serious as they put everything except the kitchen sink into the new SK4G. I know several people that may have heard of the Sidekick’s return and chuckled saying, “Are they serious?”. Why Would Anyone Be Interested In A Sidekick In 2011? ![]()
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