T-Mobile Sidekick LX officially announced all over again
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Apr 17th 2009 12:01AM
posted Apr 17th 2009 12:01AM
We had a chance to sit down with the new model for a few minutes recently, and we'll say it on no uncertain terms: this is by far the best Sidekick that Sharp (or Motorola, if you want to get technical about it) has ever made. It's the first model we've ever come across that actually feels professional and aspirational; it makes every other Sidekick seem like a toy by comparison in terms of physical design, materials, and build quality, and the addition of ActiveSync support makes this an entirely reasonable choice for young, white-collar types who cut their teeth on an older model. T-Mobile couldn't have picked a better time to be launching a device with tight Twitter integration, and it worked like a champ for us. We didn't have a ton of time to play with Microsoft Live Search and its GPS mapping capabilities, but maps loaded reasonably quickly, you've got live traffic data available to you, and naturally, you've got some pretty comprehensive search capabilities in there as well. The phone is physically large, but not impractically so -- owners of the original LX will feel right at home -- and the soft-touch plastic looks and feels great in either color. The 854 x 480 display is one of the best (if not the best) we've ever seen on a mobile device launched in the US, crisp to the point where individual pixels are utterly imperceptible to the naked eye (see the gallery shots to get a sense of what we mean). Put simply, from our brief time with it, we're struggling to come up with bad things to say -- and frankly, we're a little jealous of anyone plunking down the cash.
What ever happend to the signature Sidekick IM app?
$450 for a sidekick is pretty LOLWUT
is this what tmo's big press conference thing was about, or is that something different?
Mane this sidekick makes me wanna kick my 8900 to the curve and go back to a sidekick. 3G! a sidekick got 3G before a blackberry. smh
Yeah i thought that was odd as well, but you have to remember the sidekick is a T-mobile exclusive much like a "certain phone" is exclusive to at&t. I did think i would see a 3G Blackberry before a 3G Sidekick but i was wrong. I'll stick to my G1 though i wouldn't want to downgrade.
was really hoping to see zune integration(pink), but live search is a start i suppose....
Sure it has 3G, but the Curve 8900 still has WiFi+UMA. Can't beat that when you're overseas, right?
As must as I wish my Curve 8900 had 3G, it's not like it matters now as there's no 3G signal where I am. And by the time there is, the Driftwood will be out!
same for me. no 3G here but still wish I had 3G on my 8900.
I just HOPE it can hold over 100 SMS messages! That's always been why I have 2 phones
WOW Looks amazing, gunna have to cheggit.
Unfortunately, anyone who currently has an LX will not be able to upgrade for the $199.99 price. The LX came out in November of 2007 if im not mistaken, so that means no one is finished with their 2-year contract, which means they have to pay $419.99. (online price). But there are some who had the promotional 1-year contract so they are in the green.
This makes me want to get rid of my G1. Thank god I have an upgrade on my family plan. Grandma wont use it anyways. That HSDPA 2100 is mighty tempting.
I guess that rules out the April 21st event as a Sidekick event. Right? Please be a Magic/G2 event!
Its only $199 if you are elidgable for the upgrade at that price, otherwise its over $400.
Any word on the headphone jack size? Is it 3.5mm or the completely-irrelevant-but-still-widely-deployed 2.5mm?
The Sidekick 2008 has a 3.5mm jack
The new Sidekick LX 2009 also has a 3.5mm jack
Sigh.. no UMA. A Sidekick with UMA would be nice. I've been very pleased with the new Shadow 2009's UMA. It's also the FIRST phone for t-mobile to allow wi-fi browsing without a data plan and still have UMA.
Was this the big April 21st event?
will we still be paying for apps? or will we be able to have free ones like the G1 crowd?