TMobile Sidekick LX: Cell Phone Review

A few years ago I was watching one of my favorite celebrity news program's on VH1. On this program I saw Paris Hilton holding an oh so adorable rhinestone covered cell phone. Only this cell phone didn't look like a cellphone, it looked more like a mini computer, with a keyboard, and a pretty screen. This phone of hers was called a Sidekick. Sidekicks have come a long way though since I had last seen one. The newest models being the Sidekick LX, and Sidekick Slide. I choose the Sidekick LX though, and here is why.

The Screen:

The Sidekick LX has the neatest little screen I have ever seen. It doesn't not just click up like a standard cell phone, it doesn't slide up like the Sidekick Slide, it doesn't do anything boring like that- oh no. The Sidekick LX has a really cool swivel screen, that will click up for you with a simple push to the side of it's screen. It's pretty neat, and reminds me of an automatic click up pocket knife.

Once the swivel screen is open, the phone opens up to a full QWERTY keyboard which I will discuss later on.

The Sidekick LX's screen is also gorgeous. Besides the sweet kick ass swivel feature, the LX displays up to 65000 colors in 240x400 pixels. Numbers and specs aside, the real deal is this; the colors on the Sidekick LX look sweet, and the screen displays them flawlessly. For me looking at the Sidekick LX's screen is like looking into a mini High Def screen. The screen itself comes in at 3 inches or pure gorgeousness.

The Phone:

I bought the LX in brown, which truly looks more like black in most lighting. Deciding which color to buy was probably the most difficult thing for me to do. Blue or brown?

For those who are struggling on which color to choose, I would have to recommend the brown one because it does after all, look black. A more universal color than blue, which for me makes the phone look a little cheaper.

The phone weighs in at 5.6 ounces, and is 5.1 inches long, and 2.4 inches wide. To put it simply, the LX fits in the palm of your hand with ease, and will fit in your pocket without creating much bulge at all. The phone is also relatively slim at 0.9 inches.