Color Sidekick to be Released Tomorrow

Saxton writes "Just announced by hiptop.com's T-Mobile Rep, the awaited Color Sidekick will be available at CompUSA and 1-800-TMOBILE tomorrow. The thread is here. Now available is a data-only plan for $29.99, and you can now use any other T-Mobile price plan with the Sidekick. Anyone meeting me at CompUSA tomorrow morning?" Here is my Review of the Original device, which I still think is among the most useful portable electronic devices I've seen. I'm looking forward to testing out the new version to see what improvements have been made to an already great unit.

Comments

Features I need

[Seth Finklestein]

I am boycotting these so-called "PDAs" until they provide the following features.

1. Integrated 802.11g access. I'm not paying 2 cents per kilobyte for GPRS.
2. Full QWERTY keyboard including critically important characters such as | and ~
3. Color screen with a resolution of at least 640x480
4. Linux operating system with all code open-sourced
5. Terminal with all GNU utilities and SSH
6. Priced under $100 with no contract requirement

In the meantime, I'm sorry but this gets a 2.5 out of 10 on the Seth Finklestein scale of greatness.

Re:Review

[Chewie]

I like that one of their "bad" points is its lack of speakerphone functionality. Since when is this bad? First off, most cell phone speakerphones are total pieces of crap anyway. Secondly, I'm beginning to think I'm the only person on Earth who feels this way, but I'm frustrated enough with one side of some jackass's conversation that I don't want to hear *both* sides! This ranks right up there with those Nextel phones. So instead of hearing,

"Hey, what's up, John? Not much. I'm in the post office. Buying some stamps. Yep."

I get to hear:

*BEEDEEBEEP*
"Hey, it's John."
*BEEDEEBEEP*
"Hey, what's up, John?"
*BEEDEEBEEP*
"Not much, man. What's up with you?"
*BEEDEEBEEP*
"Not much."
*BEEDEEBEEP*
"Where are you?"
*BEEDEEBEEP*
"I'm in the post office."
*BEEDEEBEEP*
"Why?"
*BEEDEEBEEP*
"Buy ing some stamps."
*BEEDEEBEEP*
"Do they have the ones with Mickey Mouse on them?"
*BEEDEEBEEP*
"Yep."

What happened to keeping your conversation to yourself? Damn kids.