As of NOW, multitudes of pictures and stats of the fifth generation sidekick have been leaked all over the internet, and release is supposed to be soon, very soon. The only source yet to report on release states “later this month”(!!) though this seems unlikely, with the Tony Hawk LE sidekick on the edge of release and already available to current T-Mobile customers. But according to sources, the Tony Hawk sidekick will be available to new customers July 16 and the (name not yet completely known) sidekick to be released on the 28 (tentative release date)
Sounds too good to be true. That’s cos it probably is.
Tech Specs (that differ from the LX) -
- 2MP camera
- Media player (which I along with most all LX users are still waiting for)
- Improved browser from the LX
- size -120 x 57.5 x 18 mm (that’s just 1mm thicker than the slide!)
- screen – 2.6in (Nope, apparently it’s not getting that LX screen after all, its getting the one from the slide, which comes to make me wonder – is this made by motorola?)
- weight – 140g
- battery -10d standby / 5hr talk
- up to 4GB microSD card slot
- video (duh)
oh, and how could i have forgotten, the removable skins like the iD (though, these are supposed to be way better judging by the pictures)
THE NAME
here is the big controversy – what is the name of the new sidekick?! Everyone has been saying forever (literally) that its gonna be the Sidekick Gekko, though (extremely) recently, that has changed to Gecco, following the spelling in BestBuy’s computer system. And now as of last thursday, it’s the Sidekick 2008! Whats wrong with T-Mobile, they cant find a name pattern they liked. It started with the sidekick 2 (actually sidekick II), sidekick 3, then they went over to the 2 letter system with iD & LX. Now is it gonna be by year? I was diggin the two letter system, but if 2008 means its gonna be released this year, then I’m totally for it.
As always, nothing is official yet. Stay tuned :-/
link to forum post with all the fancy pictures
http://tmonews.com/forums/index.php?topic=543.0
