T-Mobile’s Sidekick 4G is finally official – pricing for the Android-based messaging smartphone crossed the wire this morning – and over at our ‘droid-obsessed sibling site Android Community they’ve been putting the QWERTY handset through its paces. In a suitably huge hands-on preview, the Sidekick 4G gives up its software and hardware secrets.That includes details on the new Sidekick overlay, which tweaks the regular Android UI into something more usable for long-term Sidekick owners. There’s Qik for video chat, Media Hub, Visual Voicemail, WiFi calling, group text and Cloud Texting, among other things, which also get demonstrated in the video below.
T-Mobile is yet to confirm specific launch dates, but the Sidekick 4G will go on sale at $99.99 with a new, two-year agreement on one of the carrier’s unlimited data plans, or at $149.99 on a regular data plan. Whether an interface tweak and emoticon buttons are enough to convince the Sidekick-faithful remains to be seen.
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