vB Easy Archive - Sidekick LX, Samsung Blast, or T-Mobile Shadow

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Sidekick LX, Samsung Blast, or T-Mobile Shadow
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Posted by: uncman

I am looking for a phone with a qwerty keyboard to replace my basic but reliable Samsung T219. I want a good keyboard with a good texting and IMing interface, along with a decent mp3 player and a good camera. I am leaning towards the Sidekick LX, the Samsung Blast, and the T-Mobile Shadow, but other qwerty phones locked through T-Mobile are fine too. I want one I can get through T-Mobile due to cost. I know the benefits of an unlocked device, but I'm not looking for one, so please no comments

due to the excellent unlocked qwerty phone that costs $800. By the way, can the LX download ringtones? Are the games that you can get fun on the Sidekick LX?

Posted by: dimsum05

I would skip the Blast (unless you really need a slim phone). Not that I'm saying it's a bad phone (love the Sammy design and build quality), but, as much as it pains me, Samsung still does not know how to make a decent music player... at least not yet. The LX has a bigger screen, nicer QWERTY, and it has a 3.5mm headphone jack, so you can plug in your own headphones (Note: Very few carrier-branded phones have this).

The Shadow trumps the LX with WinMo (which could be a bad thing), better camera (including video recording which LX lacks ), WiFi, superior one-handed use, and the very neat little jogwheel in the front that make scrolling through playlists so much better. The only thing that might turn you off is the SureType-esque keyboard (two-letters per key).

Shadow for the tweaker who's always on the move. LX for Messaging addict who doesn't mind the limited feature set (as some may say) but like for those to actually work 100% of the time.

If all else fails, you do have the 14 Return/Exchange Policy.

Posted by: EChid

I would go with the Sidekick LX. I have dealt with both the Danger OS (albeit and earlier version) and the WinMo (which is what I'm using now) and if you want a superior interface, the Sidekick is better. You simply cannot beat the QWERTY keyboard that it comes with, and the screen is brilliant. The featureset isn't really far behind the Shadow. The UI makes a big difference. Texting is so ridiculously easy on the Sidekick, IMing is painless and it all always just works. WinMo has had a history of memory leaks, random freezes and instability. Overall, its a solid OS too, its just the Danger/Sidekick has much more stability. Example: my WM6 equipped Touch froze 6 times in the first day (the issue has since been fixed), my Sidekick never froze once in 5 months of use.