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You can play MP3s off the miniSD card by artist, album, or genre, but only MP3s-no AAC, WMA, or protected music files. The music player, like so many things Sidekick, is beautiful, tremendously usable, and frustratingly low on features. To those basic messaging functions, the Sidekick 3 adds a calendar, a 1.3-megapixel camera, and a music player. Theres no MMS application-instead of picture messages, you must send e-mail. SMS is a separate application from IM, and it doesnt thread conversations by sender.
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It shows your full desktop AIM buddy list, not the truncated list seen on most mobile phones. The IM application, which runs in the background, lets you log in with one screen name each to AIM, Yahoo!, and MSN at the same time.
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The SK3s e-mail client will display JPEG attachments, play attached MP3s, and suck the text out of attached Microsoft Word and PDF documents, but not let you save those JPEGs and MP3s onto your device. This is what originally made the Sidekick a “BlackBerry for kids”-though BlackBerrys have fully caught up, and have surpassed the Sidekick with their ability to merge both personal and business e-mail accounts through the excellent BlackBerry Web Client. Mail sent to T-Mobile accounts arrives instantly other accounts are stuck with a delay that can last up to 15 minutes. The Sidekicks e-mail client lets you merge up to three POP3 or IMAP e-mail accounts-but no Hotmail, Yahoo! or corporate e-mail-and delivers it to you in a “pushed” fashion, without you having to actively check your mail. The two flagship features are e-mail and IM.
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And theres no confusing PC software to install you manage the Sidekick through a simple, clear Web interface. Sidekick experts, meanwhile, can jump to precisely the function they want with keyboard shortcuts. Functions and options are in plain English. The main menu is a wheel of icons, with clear, colorful explanations. Its the “iPod interface” of phones in terms of beauty and ease. Think about it: This is the only e-mail handheld easy enough for Paris Hilton to use. The Sidekicks greatest strength is Dangers fabulous user interface, which is pretty much unchanged from previous models. (I found the rubbery keyboards of previous Sidekicks a bit off-putting.)
It has hard, domed little plastic keys that are easy to type on. Put a little pressure on the bottom left corner of the big, 240-by-160 screen and it flips up-the Sidekicks trademark move-to reveal a keyboard thats even better than those of previous models. A miniSD card fits under the back cover, near the battery-so yes, you need to remove the back of the phone to get at the card. Theres a cursor pad that doubles as an earpiece on the left, a trackball on the right, and buttons all over. Like previous Sidekicks, the Sidekick 3 is studded with controls, yet it becomes intuitive quickly, almost like a gaming controller. Its longer and heavier, but slimmer, than the T-Mobile MDA and Palm Treo 700p. Its noticeably narrower, at 5.1 by 2.3 by 0.9 inches and 6.7 ounces.
The SK3-which will be available on June 28 to existing T-Mobile customers and on July 10 to other folks-looks like the Sidekick II on a diet. Although there are no breathtaking new features, the SK3 continues the Sidekick reign as the most usable, cuddly e-mail device around-truly, wireless e-mail and IM for dummies.Ĭlick here to read the full review of the T-Mobile Sidekick 3. After an 18-month wait, the T-Mobile Sidekick 3 slims down the hip handheld, bumps up the camera resolution, and adds an MP3 player. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. EWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent.
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