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[h4]T-Mobile myTouch Slide in the wild?[/h4]
By
Chris Ziegler posted Jan 29th 2010 11:48AM
With the
G1 on its last
legs, the
CLIQ stands as
T-Mobile USA's only QWERTY
Android set -- and for a
carrier that seems as committed to Android as T-Mobile does, that
doesn't seem right, now, does it? Indeed, that rumored
myTouch Slide
looks like it's going to get real here pretty shortly now that we're
seeing shots of the thing in the wild, and... well, it looks nothing
like the original
myTouch
3G (and even less like the
Fender
edition). Beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder -- and we'd
want to wait until we see this in the flesh -- but the myTouch Slide
appears to lack the old model's attractive contours, sticking with a
spartan design strangely paired to a chrome-ringed earpiece. Besides the
clear addition of an optical pad here (something we'd previously heard
HTC would be pushing hard in 2010), it's apparently got an HVGA display,
externally accessible microSD slot, camera with flash, and
unfortunately, an old-school ARM11 processor. We're holding out hope
that T-Mobile has plenty of higher-end gear waiting in the wings, but
for now, this looks like the G1's true spiritual successor.
Idk why I had high hopes for this phone... its uglier than my crusty G1