My Sidekick
Feb. 16th, 2005 04:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
estiroseI thought, having had the sidekick for just under two days, and I thought I'd share my impressions.
The good: internet browsing, email, IM.
The bad: awkward, browsing a bit iffy.
The t-mobile sidekick II is an interesting little beast. The best way to describe it is a combination PDA and internet appliance that also happens to be a cell phone.
With it, a user can browse the internet, use AIM (or yim), and receive email and text (sms) messages. There's also an address book, a to-do application, and a calendar.
Typing is accomplished via a compact keyboard. Navigation is primarily provided via a scroll wheel, but there's also a 4-directional pad for text editing.
The weakest parts of the sidekick are the phone and the web browser. The phone works all right, but it's awkward, and while you're not supposed to use the phone with the screen open, it's a bit hard not to. As for the web browser, it's very very slow on a lot of sites, and some I can't reach at all.
(On the phone side, I should note that my office is a dead spot, so I can't browse the internet, take or receive phone calls, so this does bias my opinion somewhat.)
Email and IM fare better. Emails are a snap, IM is sometimes hard to connect to, but when it works, it works. I haven't tried the sms or organizational programs yet.
It does sound like the sidekick has a few problems, but in general it does what I want it to do, which is to connect me to the internet on my way to and from work.
Oh, and if anybody called me today? Um, I accidentally deleted all my voicemail. Sorry.
The good: internet browsing, email, IM.
The bad: awkward, browsing a bit iffy.
The t-mobile sidekick II is an interesting little beast. The best way to describe it is a combination PDA and internet appliance that also happens to be a cell phone.
With it, a user can browse the internet, use AIM (or yim), and receive email and text (sms) messages. There's also an address book, a to-do application, and a calendar.
Typing is accomplished via a compact keyboard. Navigation is primarily provided via a scroll wheel, but there's also a 4-directional pad for text editing.
The weakest parts of the sidekick are the phone and the web browser. The phone works all right, but it's awkward, and while you're not supposed to use the phone with the screen open, it's a bit hard not to. As for the web browser, it's very very slow on a lot of sites, and some I can't reach at all.
(On the phone side, I should note that my office is a dead spot, so I can't browse the internet, take or receive phone calls, so this does bias my opinion somewhat.)
Email and IM fare better. Emails are a snap, IM is sometimes hard to connect to, but when it works, it works. I haven't tried the sms or organizational programs yet.
It does sound like the sidekick has a few problems, but in general it does what I want it to do, which is to connect me to the internet on my way to and from work.
Oh, and if anybody called me today? Um, I accidentally deleted all my voicemail. Sorry.
