![]() These themes are only basic changes, mainly the launcher back drop color, the indicator to show which screen you are on, and the font color of some menus in the device, but either way it gives users the freedom to keep their home screens matching with their custom wallpapers. Finally, there is a theme changer included, which contains eight different themes for the device. Mini Diary is a cool application that allows you to store pictures, notes, weather conditions and more in a diary fashion for those who like to document our days and share them with our loved ones. join in a message and they will be automatically added to the group. The lists are able to be kept private, or you can turn on the '.join' feature which allows friends to send. ![]() You are able to have multiple groups going at the same time, each of which is given their own name by you, and responses sent to the group go to everyone on the list. The jump key settings allow users to pick letters from the keyboard to be used to launch applications when pressed at exactly the same time as the jump key button.Īnother added feature in the Sidekick 4G is the Group Text option, which allows you to create various groups of friends and create SMS conversations that will include all of them. Below this is the jump key, a new idea for Android. Starting on the left hand side, on the top you will find the home button, used to bring you back to your main home screen from anywhere in the device, and a long press of this button will bring up your notifications as well. Here's some more on the Sidekick's new Android buttons. The left-hand side of the keyboard has a voice search button like we are used to, and the lower left hand corner of the keyboard has a voice action button allowing users to navigate the device via voice commands. There is an emoticon (smiley) button that launches a window of 40 emoticons to select from, depending on what message you are trying to get across. The left hand shift key is pink in color, but has no added functionality over the right shift key. And they have – for sure – released some unusual devices.The keyboard takes a little bit of time to grow into, but after a little bit of use you will notice your fingers are able to fly around, and type quite quickly. After all, they’ve got nothing to lose anymore. What do you guys think? If you could pick a manufacturer – in a completely make-believe, never-gonna-happen dream world, who would it be? For me, I’d love to see a BlackBerry-made device. Anything without those two key ingredients isn’t a true Sidekick. As long as it had the 180-degree mechanism and the physical keyboard. If any manufacturer did decide to give it another go, I’d buy one in a heartbeat. It was never market-leading, and never sold in astronomical numbers. I’ve written before how much I’d love T-Mo to bring back the Sidekick range, and I know many out there will agree with me. I couldn’t use any of the web-based services on this old device, and that made me sad. Now, any old Danger Sidekick is nothing but an expensive and rare paperweight. And two years later, in 2011, the company pulled the plug on the very thing keeping old Sidekicks running. Things were already going downhill before Danger’s infamous server crash of 2009. It was geared to be a fun, communication-centered product. The original model featured monochromatic display, a scroll-wheel which lit up in all the colors of the rainbow and even shipped with a plug-in camera. It went through many changes throughout its life as a range, eventually ending up as a Samsung-made Android device which was a pale imitation. Its iconic 180-degree rotating display and awesome physical keyboard made it stand out in a market full of candybar style and flip phones. Having originally launched in 2002, the T-Mobile Sidekick became of the most instantly-recognizable phones on the market. Today was one of particular interest to TmoNews readers and T-Mo fans alike. Some of you who follow me on Twitter will know I’ve been running a series of retro phone reviews over on PhoneDog’s YouTube channel. ![]()
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