![]() ![]() On the business side, you'll find a Microsoft Exchange app you can download for a small fee. You can migrate contact info, but it's a manual contact-by-contact thing, not true sync. First, it includes apps for Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. Taking a cue from the competing Virgin/Helio Ocean, the new Sidekick LX has better service integration on both the social and business sides. The camera software is much improved, with one of the most intuitive and advanced camera interfaces we've seen on a non-touch-screen phone. This is also the first Sidekick with a serious camera: 3.2-megapixel, with auto-focus, LED flash, and video capture. There is also a microSD memory card slot, which can accept large-capacity microSDHC cards. Moving down the feature list, one key addition is GPS, which integrates well with the included Microsoft Live Search app. Sharp tells us that most third-party Java apps should scale well to the new display resolution, except for ones that draw bitmaps (games, mostly). It's the highest resolution display available in any phone to date, that we know of. It's similar to the WVGA displays on the new HTC Touch Pro2 and LG Arena, but adds a few extra pixels of width to give it a true 16:9 aspect ratio. Sharp calls this FWVGA, or Full-Wide VGA. The physical size of the screen has been bumped up a tad to 3.2 inches, and the resolution has been bumped way up, to 854 x 480 pixels. The contest closes at noon Eastern on Thursday, July 31.The 2009 LX is the first Sidekick with 3G, and also the thinnest Sidekick to date. ![]() Be the first on your block to sport the squid on your SK. ![]() Tell us what you’d skin your Sidekick with – an image? a phrase? a picture of your grandmother’s tattoo? – and we’ll pick one respondent at random.īest of all you get our custom CG skin created by our own Bryce Durbin. We’ll have a full review this week but right now we want to give away our CrunchGear-clad beauty to one lucky commenter.
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