Here are a few pictures of the new Sidekick 4G that T-Mobile USA and Samsung are unveiling Tuesday. Black and magenta models will go on sale this spring, at a price the companies will disclose later.
It still has the flip-up screen and five-row keyboard, and now has a 3.5-inch touchscreen display.
The Sidekick no longer has the Danger software inside. Instead it's running Google's Android operating system (version 2.2), with a few special applications.
They include "Sidekick Group Text" -- for starting and managing reply-all group text conversations and "social planning" -- and "Cloud Text" for texting friends or groups across platforms and from PCs as well as Sidekicks.
Preloaded on the devices are Twitter, Facebook and "Media Room," a media player, radio and store.
A front-facing camera can be used for video chat with the Qik application. Inside, the device has a 1 gigahertz A8 Hummingbird processor. Using T-Mobile's upgraded HSPA+ network, it has a theoretical peak download speed of 21 megabits per second.
The new Sidekick sounds promising. I'm kinda curious of how "Sidekick Group Text" works. Looking at its design makes me want to have one myself. And the fact that it has 21 MBPS of Download speed helps a lot.
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