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T-Mobile Sidekick LX

Sidekick LX Reviews

CrunchGear reviews the Sidekick LX and writes, "The phone has a 1.3-megapixel camera with flash and supports MicroSD, albeit through a slot buried under the back panel...What the LX has done is remind me why I love the Sidekick series. It’s simple, easy-to-use, and stylish. The keyboard adds an amazing level of fluidity to everyday communication without the rigmarole of similar smartphones. And, I can say this with absolute certainty, the Sidekick IM support is the best there is. Nothing — I don’t care if it’s under WinMo, Palm, or Symbian — offers a similar and more immediate experience. Plus it comes with a carrying case."

CNET reviews the T-Mobile Sidekick LX and writes, "The T-Mobile Sidekick LX comes with the same 1.3-megapixel camera and once again, disappointingly, you can't use it to record video. You can take snapshots in three sizes--1,280x1,024, 640x480, or 320x240--and adjust the quality from low to high. Other than that, your editing options are limited; you can activate the flash, change the JPEG quality, or rotate the image, but that's about it. Once done snapping photos, you can create an album right on your device or share your photos with others via multimedia message or e-mail. Picture quality was subpar. Though we could make out the images in the picture fairly clearly, colors were washed out and dull."

PC Mag reviews the T-Mobile Sidekick LX and writes, "The device has very little onboard memory. It doesn't seem to be measured in megabytes, but I managed to max it out with three days' worth of e-mail messages. You'll want to drop a microSD card into the slot under the back cover. My 4GB Kingston card worked fine. The LX's 1.3-megapixel camera takes decent pictures, though I saw compression artifacts on them and outdoor pictures tend to overexpose bright areas."

InfoSync reviews the T-Mobile Sidekick LX and writes, "The Sidekick design is still fun to use, but getting a little old to us. The Sidekick LX offers few improvements. We prefer the new keyboard, which has a soft-touch, grippy feel to it, and nice, bubbly keys that are easy to use. In fact, the Sidekick LX has one of the nicest keyboards we've seen on a QWERTY phone, and we've seen quite a few recently. The trackball feels a bit loose to us, though. Also, though we like a wealth of programmable buttons, the Sidekick almost seems to have too many, and the shoulder buttons are a bit out of the way. We often forgot they were there, and we certainly forgot the endless combinations of button presses that may be convenient, but have a steep learning curve."

MobileBurn reviews the T-Mobile Sidekick LX and writes, "Taking photos with the Sidekick LX is simple enough. Pressing the button on the top right of the device brings up the camera application, and pressing the same button activates the shutter. There is a slight lag between pressing the button and the phone actually taking the picture, and the earlier-mentioned LED flash is completely useless. In most cases, you're better off disabling the flash, as it will only over-brighten images. The photo quality is poor, even for a 1.3 megapixel shooter. On the LX, dark areas are very noisy and images are simply not crisp, providing particularly poor photos in low-light situations."

LaptopMag reviews the T-Mobile Sidekick LX and writes, "Multimedia capabilities were fairly well represented with MP3, AAC, and WMA music playback. We easily loaded music from our PC, but it was slow with its USB 1.1 connection (over-the-air downloads still escape the Sidekick LX). Although we were fine using the standard headphone jack to listen to tunes, we were disappointed that the LX doesn’t support stereo Bluetooth (it does support regular Bluetooth, however). Pictures from the 1.3-megapixel camera were about average and were fine for compressed MySpace pages."

MobileTechReview has a review of the T-Mobile Sidekick LX and writes, "The Sidekick LX’s built-in 1.3 megapixel camera with flash is there to do just that. The photos will serve as mementos best viewed on your phone rather than computer monitor. You might get away with sharing the photos online if you keep the image small because the photos quality is sub par at best for a 1.3 megapixel camera. The photos have lots of noise, look dark and lack detail. One of the main new features that the June 2008 update provides is video recording capability. You can record long videos (depends on microSD card space) or short videos (20-second) and you must have a microSD card in the slot to record video."