T - Mobile Sidekick returns as 4 G Android Smartphone - eWeek

T - Mobile USA has teamed up with Samsung Mobile to bring the T-Mobile Sidekick, a sporting Android smartphone screen of 3.5 inches and a QWERTY keyboard on the hinge for pop-tilt signature for which the Sidekick brand was famous.

While the original Sidekick was not a touch screen, double-entry of the combined G Sidekick 4 modes are designed to appease the majority of consumers seeking access to their device by contact and type.

However, instead of being based on the operating system of Danger and the service of data belonging to Microsoft, the new Sidekick will run Android 2.2 and be powered by a 1 GHz on the 4 G of T-Mobile network processor, capable of producing potential peak download speeds of up to 21 Mbit/S.

The Sidekick 4 G would not be a Sidekick without serious messaging ability, as evidenced by the keyboard of line 5.

The new device includes Sidekick Group text and text of cloud messaging applications. Group text allows users to engage in Group text conversations. Cloud text allows text users with friends or groups through the PC and the Sidekick 4 G.

The Sidekick 4 G includes a camera oriented to the front VGA and T-Mobile Video Chat powered by Qik. The Sidekick 4 G has also a physical jumping key which allows customers to switch between live apps in a telephone call, or assign keyboard shortcuts.

Faithful devices Android, smartphone will also be integrated with Google services, including Gmail and Google Maps and Android Market access.

The Sidekick 4 G comes with DriveSmart of T-Mobile, which warns the appellants and shippers, the beneficiary is the engine and will respond when it is safe. DriveSmart plus offers the same features, although it activates automatically when the device is in a vehicle in motion and the parental control features for when the teen drivers are behind the wheel.

The new G Sidekick 4 is preloaded with Facebook and Twitter applications, with users to update their status in the ToolTip and browse their feeds in the home screen. Users may also synchronize their contacts from social network to the phone address book.

Sidekick 4 G also houses a "press room", a unique destination for music, videos, movies, YouTube, T-Mobile TV and Radio Slacker. Customers can rent or buy their films and television programmes on the Samsung media hub.

The device of price and availability have yet to be announced, although T-Mobile, said U.S. can expect in the magenta matte black or pearl this spring.

The Sidekick brand seeks to recover after a few hits in October 2009, when it comes to hardware on the servers run by Microsoft were Danger subsidiary the personal data of nearly 800,000 phones of users? Sidekick.

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