![]() It’s impossible to overstate how much of a gamechanger this phone was. Summer 2011, and Samsung launched the Galaxy S2. Software keyboards were OK but not quite good enough for me. Unfortunately, the UK release with the same hardware was the HTC Desire Z, which had HTC’s customised version of Android, which I was unsure about, wanting to stick with stock Android - yep even in those early days there was huge debate about the value of modified OEM versions of Android compared to stock.Īt this time I was still convinced that hardware keyboards were the way. I kept this device for a full two years, before importing this from the USA - a T-Mobile G2, aka HTC Vision, i late 2010. ![]() Android releases happened thick and fast, with 1.1 (Petit Four), Cupcake, Donut and Eclair all landing in 2009, a few months after each other and all bringing major new features. This felt like a device that could do it all, and a rapidly populating Android Market was a beautiful thing to witness, as developers pushed the open operating system to it’s limits. In 2008, right after launch, I got this wonderful device, the T-Mobile G1. Regardless, we were about to enter a new era, with the launch of Android. Sadly this was the latest Sidekick to be released in the UK, although the US got two more models - the LX and the Sidekick 2009 before the range ended through Microsoft’s disastrous acquisition of Danger, Inc. I went from that to the Sidekick Slide in 2008, which I adored the build quality of, and it was purple! I did miss the trademark flip mechanism of the previous model (this was the only Sidekick that differed in that sense, as the name implies, the screen slid up rather than flipped outward). The company was founded by Andy Rubin, who went on to found Android. It was not only far more advanced than most devices on the market (always on data connection, push email, cloud synced contacts/notes/calendar, app store, IM clients, high quality games) but it was cool as well and a unique part of pop culture, with everyone from Snoop Dogg to Paris Hilton promoting it. I was early to the game compared to most - I started with the T-Mobile Sidekick 3 in 2006.
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