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• This unlocked cell phone is compatible with GSM carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile. Not all carrier features may be supported. It will not work with CDMA carriers like Verizon Wireless, Alltel and Sprint.
• Digital audio player compatible with MP3, WMA and AAC formats
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 5.2 inches | | Product Width:
| 0.64 inches | | Product Height:
| 2.4 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.36 pounds | | Package Length:
| 6.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 41 reviews |
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41 of 42 found the following review helpful:
 Pleasantly SurprisedDec 29, 2011
By Elaina
RECEIVED:
*Brand new phone -- as pictured.
*Sharp black velvet sleeve
*Wall charger
*USB cable
*User guide CD
*Manual
*1GB SD card
*Original Box
*Headphones
Basically, as you may have heard or read, Sidekick data is no longer available. What this means is, you can only text and call, rather than getting on the internet to look up directions or download the hottest apps/ring tones. You can't access the internet, period. I have recently lost my Blackberry 9700 and replaced it with this Sidekick. Honestly, it's kind of refreshing to "regress" in a sense and not always be tempted to reply to clients emails and answer business inquiries from my apps.
I've always like the looks of the Sidekicks, just never got around to owning one (better late than never, right?) It has a very unique, sleek design with a full qwerty keyboard that is hard-to-beat. The screen is a nice size with a one-of-kind swivel out technique. Taking a look at the Sidekick, it actually looks pretty high-tech and up to par with the new smartphones. Although, it looks badass, it's actually NOT a smart phone and the OS is pretty basic. Not the game "Snake" basic, but basic nonetheless.
Since the phone is just a modern paperweight for texting and calling ONLY, I was expecting a better texting interface. However, that's one of the only things I was pretty disappointed with. It doesn't have the cool chat windows that lists the whole conversation. It's old school, in which is has the "Sent" folder and the "Inbox" folder -- altogether, only holding 100 messages total. The keyboard could have slightly raised buttons. Half the time I have to double check I actually pressed the space bar -- it doesn't really feel like you did when you do -- and with having long nails, it's kind of awkward to press the 'a' key, in my opinion. However, if you're not competing in any fastest texting championships, then this is miniscule. I do like the fact that you can RECORD your own ringtones/alerts and you can customize a ringtone for each individual.
I would appreciate it if the phone's light blinked when I had a message/missed call. There's an option where you can set it to blink "even when it's asleep", however, it makes the phone blink 'green' consistently. It will blink blue when you have a message and red for low battery. I rather it just blink blue when I have a message, I could care less about the green letting me know the phone is still on...great...whoopdedoo.
As for the battery life, I've had it on -- like literally lit up -- for most of the day. UPS came at like 10am, and I still have about 92% battery life left. Also, 5 bars of service, and I live out in the boondocks. Most phones get about 3 bars on a good day.
What's funny is I figured out how to customize my contacts individual ringtones and had a little trouble finding out where my darn ringtones were, in general. Figured that one out. Luckily, they don't have a 99% selection of fairy-dungeon and dragons-type rings...they all, for the most part, are actually "ring ring ring" variations. So, seeing as how we can't download ringers, this was a nice discovery.
Overall, I'm really pleased with it. I've had enough experience with apps, internet, etc. in my lifetime, I don't need all of it on my talking device anymore. So, again, this is refreshing to not be even capable of replying back to emails and such when you're off the clock. I'll get to that crap when I get to that crap. The calls and texts with EXCELLENT battery life is really all you need. FIVE STARS!
UPDATE
*******
So, I've had this phone for a couple of weeks now. I allowed the battery to die on me once and when I charged it and turned it back on, it was fine. However, today, while trying to get rid of the annoying Voicemail icon at the top (there are no voicemails in my voicemail box) I powered it off. When I powered it back on, all my texts and contacts were gone. Sad part is that that icon was STILL there! GrrRRr. You can always import your contacts to your SIM card, but sometimes you forget to save new contacts to your SIM card, so when I imported them back, I can tell I'm missing a few. The text messages don't bother me as much, because like I've said before, you can only save a total of 100 messages, and that's the sum of messages in the trash/sent/inbox/draft folder. Not a whole lot.
That's really the only gripe I have, at the moment. I can't figure out why my contacts were okay when it died on it's own, but then when I powered it off, it erased them. Might be just a glitch, or a flaw with the phone itself. Who knows.
19 of 20 found the following review helpful:
Sidekick LX 2009 Review from an AT&T CustomerFeb 05, 2012
By Oddishes
I recently ditched an Android phone (along with a $100 per month plan) for a $25/month talk & text plan on AT&T. I was previously a T-Mobile customer, and before the Danger servers went down for good, I used a Sidekick Slide, and the 2008 Gekko. I am not new to Sidekicks at all. That being said, this phone is excellent to use unlocked on a talk & text plan. I even changed the settings in MMS so that picture messages DO work on AT&T. The only con to this phone is that the data will NEVER work as they're set up to only connect to Danger servers, and those are gone forever. It has nothing to do with the carrier, or your plan. The servers are never coming back, so there will never be data functions on this phone. As far as what I'm using it for, it is perfect. I bought this phone because I missed the 5-row QWERTY keyboard and the general layout of the Danger OS. (I was originally going to break out my 08 and unlock it, but it turns out, unlocking a Sidekick costs like $40 and a brand new one was just a little more, already unlocked.) Contrary to what a lot of people will tell you, I will say out of personal experience:
The data saved on your phone DOES NOT disappear when you power off and back on. I couldn't tell you if it remains after you remove the battery, I haven't tried that, but your texts, contacts, settings will all be there if you restart the phone.
In the SMS/MMS inbox, names ARE displayed next to your text. I read a lot of reviews claiming that the only thing it shows is the mobile number (and since cell phones, who has phone numbers memorized anymore?) But on mine at least, that's just not true. There is a name in the recipient field.
Text notifications: THEY WORK. That's another claim I've heard all over the place- that text vibrate and notifications don't work. That is a defective phone, or one that has not been unlocked properly. Notifications DO NOT rely on data.
Battery life: I have had this phone for 2 days. After the initial charge to 100%, it lasted 40 hours and the phone was still 80% charged. At this rate, this thing will last a freakin' WEEK unless you use the media player frequently. (And that's with sound AND vibrate. I text a lot so I get a lot of alerts.)
As far as email, you don't get data so you can't use the client, but you CAN send emails as MMS, just enter an email into the recipient field. I even set up Facebook to text me notifications and I'm pretty much covered. I still can't believe I paid 100/mo for an Android plan just so I could check my Facebook!
And finally, the best part of this phone: unlike all previous Sidekicks, you can INSTALL YOUR OWN RINGTONES AND NOTIFICATIONS SOUNDS WITHOUT THE USE OF THE DOWNLOAD CATALOG. All you have to do is send it to your MMS through email (mine is MYNUMBER@att.mms.com or something like that. It goes to the MMS inbox) with the tone that you want attached, and you can select the attachment in the inbox which will give you the option to import it as a ringtone. HOW AWESOME IS THAT??
I highly recommend this phone to anyone who wants a phone for talking and texting. In my opinion, this is probably the best phone EVER MADE. No joke. I seriously will probably order 2 more just in case I ever break this one. And to think I almost didn't order it just because of all the reviews made by people who were just unhappy they didn't do a little research before they bought the phone!
21 of 24 found the following review helpful:
Nice texting phoneNov 06, 2011
By ezwass
Phone works well for texting. But tmobile has discontinued their sidekick plans so data wont work. Will work for calls and texting only.
13 of 15 found the following review helpful:
BadasseryDec 23, 2011
By TedBrogan
If you're tired of smart phones or want the full qwerty keyboard you've come to the right item.
ISSUE with AT&T:
I am on AT&T. I carefully considered the other reviews for the LX 2009 phones and saw that some were having trouble with the phone updating itself on AT&T and screwing people with no data plans. So here's what I did: Turn the phone on BEFORE you put your friggin' SIM card in. Go into the settings for the network and turn off 3G. SOLVED. DONE.
For those of you who aren't inept, here's my review:
PROS:
EVERYTHING is map-able! I peed a little when I noticed this while playing around with the settings. You can setup what's called "Quick Jumps" to every app/feature.
Nice keyboard. Keys aren't raised as much as I would've liked but still very usable. I have HUGE thumbs and these keys appeared to be the most spaced out of any phone I looked at. I was right. I have yet to hit two keys at once.
The screen gets bright as hell! You can choose to use the auto sensor (which does a great job by the way) and it will dynamically change the brightness of the screen.
Personally I get wood for longer battery life so I set the screen at the lowest brightness level which is working just fine for me. I've had this for over a day now, I'm constantly sending/getting texts and calls, and only manage to drop the battery life 5% !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you're not good at math that's potentially 20 charge-free days!
The "Danger" OS is smooth, easy to use and the track ball is a nice feature.
Great signal compared to smart phones. One of the main reasons I switched back. Smart phones just don't shine a light to "dumb" phones.
I also read a review stating you can only make calls with the screen slid out. Granted it TELLS you to do that but once again exploration has yielded another solution: Ignore the "Flip to dial!" message and select the button in the bottom left of the screen and... Derp! It gives you a number pad on the screen! Now you don't have to look like an ass-clown trying to hold the phone up to your face with the screen swiveled out.
CONS:
Takes FOREVER to start up. Just as bad as smart phones. Consistently 30 seconds.
Sometimes the keyboard backlight doesn't come on. I've only noticed it once so I dinked around with it and found that lifting up too far when swiveling the screen seems to glitch the keyboard backlighting. FIX: it almost instinctive for me to lift up on the screen to separate the magnets (the screen is held in position by very small magnets). Just train yourself to use the swivel motion with your thumbs but the screen is sort of stiffly locked in place.
The OS has a bit of a learning curve getting use to it but, for me anyway, I'm pretty well used to it after a few days.
"Unlocked"? There doesn't seem to be any way to use custom ringtones or themes on this things. Luckily there is a ringtone I like already on it which is a rare thing. There is a site dedicated to this ( sklx09themes.com ) but I cant get Windows 7 to see the phone. But the themes I haven't figure out yet and the ones that come with the phone are egregious :(
My box was missing the 1GB microSD card but CLEARLY had the wrapper for it which I found to be slightly amusing. This might be a biggie for some people but I already had a 4GB card ready for it.
Bulky but no bigger than your typical smart phone. Just a tad bigger than my last "dumb" phone.
Not really any manual associated with this so prepare yourself for experimentation.
SUMMATION:
Once you learn it and map out your favorite keys it's effing quick to use! I can get into my messages or phone book with one button and without having to open the screen. I will save you from dirtying a fresh pair of underwear and say that this "swivel" motion is like a machete hacking through brush. It almost seems like it would break the phone but after inspection I realized there was another magnet catching it at the end of the motion. No, I couldn't customize ringtones or themes which hurt my feels but given that the battery could last for a month and the keyboard is well-spaced for big thumbs I'd say I came out ahead on this one.
** I'll add an update if I find a way to customize the phone in a manner which doesn't require using 3G.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Love It ! ! !Feb 02, 2012
By Chris
The size is just perfect, not too small not too big. The package included:
1. A Sharp soft case
2. A Sharp headset and ear piece muffs
3. 1 battery
4. Instructional manual
5. A wall poster with the pic of the phone on one side and detailed diagram on the other.
6. 1 Wall charger
7. Sidekick
8. USB cable
9. User Guide CD
I bought this phone for my fiance and she loves it, I've always wanted a sidekick and decided that I am going to look away frm getting myself yet another BlackBerry and get my self my ''Drem Phone''.
It's all I expected, my friends say it's old school but they can't help but looking at it and saying it's kool.
I love the flip/slide *****.
Pros:
-you can use a memory card
-you can attach a pic to your favs
-Bluetooth
-3.0 megapixel cam. ( the quality is grea by the way)
-Flash for the cam
-Video
-Voice recording
-Media player
-screen saver
-Organizer (to do list, calendar ad note pad)
Cons:
-No calculator
-Keeps rebooting itself randomly ( could be that this is a defective device and not an overall issue)
-cannot make your library songs your ring tone ( you have to download ring tones/record a song to be you ring tone)
-cannot change the background display
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