Once T-Mobile’s Sidekick had one of the better keyboards on a phone, and the phone’s ability to google something was out of the ordinary. However, the original concept and form factor of the Sidekick is still a pretty sweet one and it certainly has a place among top mobile phones if its technical shortcomings can be redeemed. Â Now, a company called Personal Communications Devices (PCD), may have given away the news that two versions of the Sidekick are to hit T-Mobile in 2009. On the one hand, these new mobile messaging phones could simply be special editions of the existing Sidekick iD or Sidekick 3. On the other hand, they could be making a whole new Sidekick altogether. A new Quickfire for AT&T will include easy-to-use phones for senior citizens, QWERTY keyboard phones for heavy users of text messaging and email, and ruggedized phones for business and consumers.
If you recall, the previous models did not have 3G, Wi-Fi, or a full HTML browser. Hopefully, that the new Sidekick at least tacks on standard goods like 3G, Wi-Fi, and GPS. Every smartphone is doing those things these days.
