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hey guys john r Ettinger with John four Lakers comm here and I want to give you a review of the t-mobile Sidekick I've had it for just about a week now and want to share my thoughts and feelings on it with you but before I do let me show you a hardware overview of the device all right guys before it gets to review of device I want to give you a tour the hardware since it does have some very unique features about it so at the front you've got a three line menu button push that menu pops up you can navigate with the scroll ball you've got a speaker grill right here it's surrounded by a four-way d-pad which is another way for navigation which is very nice and then you've got a jump menu this is five or ten little circles right there would take you back to the main screen where we are right now anywhere you are on the phone you've got a X button which will close at our program you're in and a back arrow which little back you're right back up and you've got a green send key and a red end key surrounded by the very familiar trackball which is found on BlackBerry's and sidekicks for generations now going back to the sidekick - on these top of the device you've got two shoulder buttons used for games and serving various functions throughout the different programs we've got a mini USB port and a nice addition of a 3.5 millimeter headset jack take advantage of the immediate two-player capabilities of the phone on the bottom of the device you've got a plus or minus for volume and a power key and wouldn't be a sidekick unless it had the cool swivel so all you do is push down on the upper right hand corner screen swivels right out which is very nice it's gotta make sure you pull your finger away my logic sock and there it goes and opens up now every sidekick has had to swivel device but the one exception of Motorola sidekick slide which was very short-lived in t-mobile's lineup so if I just want to give you a real quick hardware or review and let's go talk about the phone alright so now that you've seen what the device looks like let me go ahead and talk about it first I had a sidekick - way back in the day probably about five six years ago so I was relatively from with the sidekick line but I haven't had one since really had a chance to play with one since my initial impressions of a sidekick we're always it's fun it's great for Iams maybe a little bit too kid-friendly for me but really have to say after a week of using the device I am incredibly impressed with it the OS is a little cartoony and it is a little kid ish I supposed but what the phone is capable of far exceeds most smartphones well it does max out at edge speeds the browser is quick the browser renders full HTML web pages email is very quick and seamless and fast contact management is nice and easy SMS is nice and easy MMS is easy really everything on devices right at your fingertips really is a piece of cake I'm still increasingly impressed with the DES phone the more I used it the more I got to like it the phone like I said before maxes out at edge speeds now obviously t-mobile coverage is gonna vary upon your location but where I am I a full t-mobile coverage and call quality was fantastic users on the other end reported a slight white noise in the background but nothing that impeded them from hearing me at all and I could hear them no problem also the speakerphone on the device is quite loud so if you use speaker quite often will not have any trouble at all with the phone I found myself really enjoying that flip up mechanism of the device like sitting there playing with it while I was home at work or playing with it really just during the day and flipping it up and playing with it and flipping it back down really makes the device unique in my opinion the full QWERTY keyboard on is actually probably one of the best QWERTY keyboards I've used and that's Stan I've used the BlackBerry Bold I've use the curved Samsung epics I got kicking around here I've used a lot of phones with full QWERTY keyboards and the sidekick has its reputation for a reason and the reputation is just fantastic easy to type keyboard they're made of raised plastic and since the keyboard is in the landscape there's much more room to space it apart and it's a full 5 rows - with a separate row for numbers so let's go ahead and move on to navigation navigation is done with this simple roll ball and it really becomes a - it is very quick you can push the ball in to select there's a back button right below it you really get a chance to you feel like you've used the device actually for a while I only using it for a few minutes one thing that the younger crowd might like are these customizable shells so you can pop this right off put on whatever color you'd like here they came with a blue one to the SIM card on the back this shoulder part pops off as well on whatever color you want you can actually order your own custom shells from t-mobile dot-com and a few weeks later they'll show up right in your inbox so guys I really am still so impressed with the phone you have the ability to sync your contacts and your calendar wirelessly with t-mobile's online service the organizer is really full feature you can set reminders set dates and sync it wirelessly really a lot of features that other phones don't have if this thing had true push email it may really be a competitor for some of the big smartphones out there I think the toughest thing that it has is its reputation of being more a kid-friendly messenger device and that's not really so much of an issue I mean well it does appeal to a younger audience really has features that the business crowd might like size-wise it's really nice and thin fits very nice and easily into my pocket then give you a real quick size comparison of the device I'm gonna move this down here so here is a mobile sidekick we'll bring in the iPhone here you can see it's a little bit longer but definitely narrower down on top of each other so other devices you might be looking at talked about the BlackBerry Bold little earlier get them bring that in another it's bringing the sidekick and compared with the BlackBerry Bold notice it's much much much much thinner much narrower and here is the just-released blackberry storm it's actually a little bit thicker than the storm definitely narrower there's another side view of it for you camera back up here device is really pocketable and you hardly ever even noticed it speaker volume is loud the vibration alert on is loud really everything on the phone exceeded my expectations increasingly impressed with it like I said probably a million times already so guys t-mobile Sidekick out of my five star reviews I really give it a solid four and a half I don't give many phones four or five but I'm very impressed with it if you're in the market for a full-featured QWERTY phone and you're on t-mobile you owe it to yourself to go check it out we're taking about switching carriers for another phone before you do go to t-mobile and definitely check it out highly recommended all right guys I'm John Rhett endure with John four Lakers comm be sure to go check out the website WWJ and for Lakers comm and if you want some exclusive contents be sure to follow me on Twitter ww twitter.com slash John for Lakers alright guys I will see you in the next video bye bye