It works great when you’re outside, though. I’d imagine the “Track-Me” function is Danger’s answer to this conundrum, which allows you to turn on and off active locating. It has the ability to pinpoint your location so that you can send exact coordinates, but it’s a little iffy when indoors and you have to constantly refresh it. The integrated Live Search app offers a plethora of viewing options, like, Road, Aerial, or Road+Aerial modes with the option of traffic. GPS: I was wondering where MS would rear its ugly head on the Sidekick after buying out Danger last year and it’s with GPS. Twits aren’t instantaneous like I thought, but you can set the refresh rate from 5, 15, 30 or 60 minutes. It was originally laid out into a grid of 18 icons per page and now it’s reverted to a list. For example, it only shows 100 of my 640+ followers and the way in which it displays those 100 followers has changed twice since this morning. Social Networks: MySpace’s app on the Sidekick is still the best, but does anyone still use it? I haven’t spent enough time with Facebook to give an honest opinion, but it seems to work just as well as the MySpace app. No other mobile device or platform rivals the Sidekick in this arena. IM: Once again the Sidekick reigns supreme when it comes to mobile IM clients. Video: I’m still messing around with video codecs and such so this part will have to wait until the review, but I haven’t been able to play avi or mp4 files. The same goes for uploading to MySpace, but that’s done within the MySpace app itself. Video is hardly anything to rave about, but what mobile phone can take decent video anyway? Uploading video to YouTube requires you to e-mail the file to your YT account and as long as you’re in a strong 3G area then it shouldn’t take more than a couple minutes. It feels good, but that virgin white trackball won’t stay clean for long.Ĭamera: Finally! The 3.2-megapixel AF camera takes sharp pictures, but you have to be under optimal lighting for it to really shine. Trackball: It’s not as recessed and the well that it resides in is like a Cadillac. OMG, I’ve missed that dedicated row of numbers across the top. Keys are bit harder than previous models, but I’m knocking out e-mails, IMs and text messages faster than I ever could on my BlackBerry. Keyboard: The Sidekick has always had the best QWERTY keyboard on the market and the 3G LX doesn’t falter one bit. The closest thing to it right now is the BlackBerry 8900 and to some extent the BlackBerry Bold. Screen: It’s absolutely brilliant and hands down the best screen available on a mobile handset today. My overall impression of the Sidekick LX is still positive, but I’ve found a few things to nitpick about. Sorry.) CNET TV's Natali del Conte will be at the event so check back later for video of the party and a closer look at the new Sidekick.Now that I’ve had a few hours to get acquainted with the new Sidekick LX, I figured some preliminary comments were in order. Also, for all those wondering about the April 21 private launch event in New York, it will be dedicated to the Sidekick LX and only the Sidekick LX, nothing else (read: no T-Mobile G2 yet. In the meantime, you can check out some beauty shots of the T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009 below. We're expecting to get a review unit before the national launch on May 13, so of course, we'll have a full review, video, and hands-on photos then. The phone won't win any beauty contests (there's something a little odd about it that I can't quite pinpoint), but again, the thinner design, the soft-touch finish, and finger grooves add up to a nice user experience. The 3G and Flash video support are huge and so is the Facebook and Twitter integration-should be a hit with its target audience. Overall, we liked what we saw of the T-Mobile Sidekick LX. If anything, we would have liked to have seen some enhancements to the music player, which pretty much remains the same. The quad-band phone also has built-in GPS with Microsoft Live Search, Bluetooth 2.0 (A2DP supported), Quick Find universal search, and AIM, Windows Live, and Yahoo instant messaging clients.
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