Sidekick Slide hits the FCC, user's manual and all

by Chris Ziegler, posted Sep 18th 2007 at 7:23PM

Previously leaked shots of Motorola's Sidekick Slide were met with a lukewarm reception -- take your pick of complaints from the bizarre color scheme, the unfortunate looking keypad, the lack of a swivel display, or the fact that there's little technological improvement here over the Sidekick 3 -- and we've gotta say, the FCC's unflattering shots aren't doing it any favors. For what it's worth, though, you can now peruse the user's manual of the upcoming release for T-Mobile, a device that'll launch alongside the arguably more desirable Sidekick LX from Danger's more seasoned hardware partner, Sharp. Besides some enthralling instructions on how to apply pressure to the display to slide it open, there's not much here of interest; one thing we noted was a blurb on page 7 referring to the device as the Hiptop 4, but we're guessing there's still some draft cleanup to do and it'll likely revert to Sidekick Slide branding throughout by the time it hits the presses.

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Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, T-Mobile, Danger, GSM, EDGE

Tags: breaking news, BreakingNews, danger, fcc, hiptop, moto, motorola, sidekick, slide, t-mobile

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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iPhoneResidentObssesive @ Sep 18th 2007 7:36PM

the sk4 btter step it up with a better camera. hopefully tmob will also be able to roll out hsdpa for it

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Adam B @ Sep 18th 2007 9:11PM

Honestly, this phone looks like a piece of crap. Hopefully the Sidekick LX will be much better.

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James @ Sep 18th 2007 10:39PM

according to this website...http://www.t-mobilesignal.com/forum/f8/upcoming-t-mobile-phones-1313.html it's just as crappy as the sidekick Zante. Any phone on EDGE nowadays is trash.

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PEZ @ Sep 19th 2007 2:01PM

THe thins is, in America, 9 out of 10 people do not need internet acess or that sort of functionality for their cellphones - they use them to make calls, and perhaps sent SMS messages. America is not behind, its the American Public's lack of usage that stalls the new tech from appearing.

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EdRabbit @ Sep 18th 2007 11:00PM

James: That's because the Slide IS the Zante.

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Zenojones @ Sep 19th 2007 12:03AM

yay finaly MMS welcome to 2001 danger!

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Nick @ Sep 19th 2007 11:45AM

its not Danger Inc but Motorola. See the Motorola M on the left side of the screen and smack in the middle of the back.

On a side note.. i cant believe that this Purple Monster is actually going to be released.

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Zachary @ Sep 19th 2007 10:07AM

I'm pretty sure that Hiptop is what HTC brands it... I saw it on the UTStarcom website when they were doing most of HTC's Stateside business.

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MikeP @ Sep 19th 2007 12:55PM

The SLidekick

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Alex @ Sep 19th 2007 1:57PM

Wow this is a joke. The only thing that it has that is somewhat exciting, sidekick wise, is that you will finnaly be able to text pictures, oh and record your own ringtones. wow.

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