Last week, I played with T-Mobile’s upcoming Sidekick LX built by Sharp and Sidekick Slide, built by Motorola. Though it’s still over a month from their “holiday” release, T-Mobile is acknowledging their existence today with some official pics and specs.
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Both are more slender than anything yet seen in the Sidekick family: the $299 swivel-action LX is .86″ thick, while the aptly named $199 Slide is even slimmer at .68″. I can actually conceive of putting the Slide into my jeans pocket—a first for the notoriously chunky Sidekicks. Both have 1.3 megapixel cameras and microSD card slots that support cards up to 4GB.
The LX’s 3″ screen is spacious, bright and higher than the others in resolution, at 400 x 240 pixels. (The Slide’s perfectly adequate screen is a more typical 320×240.) Typing is a bit easier on the LX, […]

Original post by Wilson Rothman