Geared towards the young and hip, the messaging-centric (e.g. IM, texting, e-mail) Sidekick line has become thinner and more compact with each succeeding generation. This is especially true of the Slide, which, at 4.6 x 2.4 ix 0.7 inches and 5.3 ounces, is the thinnest and smallest Sidekick model yet.

Although Sharp built and designed all Sidekick models over the last five years, including T-Mobile's other new Sidekick model, the LX, the Slide is - for the first time - the work of another company, Motorola

The Slide is also the first Sidekick to deviate from this smartphone's usual swivel-screen-to-reveal-a-QWERTY-keyboard design. Instead, the Sidekick LX's display, as the name implies, slides up to reveal its keyboard.


Sidekick Slide Open

As with the LX the Slide sports a 1.3 megapixel camera. Its display drops down to 2.4 inches in size at 320 x 240-pixel QVGA resolution.

There are also game controllers, Bluetooth, a miniSDHC card slot, which currently supports up to 4GB expansion cards, and 128MB of internal memory. It's also got a media player.


Sidekick Slide Closed

The Slide is available in a black and purple color scheme for $200 with a two-year contract.