Take the T-Mobile myTouch, and strap on a physical QWERTY keyboard. Give it a light tap with an ugly stick, and then convert the trackball into an optical trackpad. What do you get? The myTouch Slide.
Once a figment of our imaginations (and hopes and dreams), the myTouch Slide has been popping up endlessly around the rumor watercooler as of late – and here it is in all of it’s plasticky flesh, according to the gents over at DroidDeveloper.
Alas, the rumored specs aren’t all that impressive – they’re pretty close to what the original (and now rather aged) myTouch has been packing since it launched a few months shy of a year ago. The screen is pushing pixels at a pretty mediocre resolution of 320×480, and the processor is seemingly clocked at the same speed. On the upside: Its got QWERTY! and a 3.5mm headset jack! and it’s presumably running Android 2.0 or later!
[DroidDevelopers via TmoNews]
Umm, isn’t this called the G1. The MyTouch was basically a G1 (same screen, processor, with a small amount more memory, both made by HTC).
So, other than this looking different (and really not that great), I guess I would prefer the G1, for considerably less money.
If you want a TMobile Android phone with Qwerty, then get the Moto Cliq, at least you get value added from the Blur interface.
This one looks like the moto-backflip with some add rubber on the keyboard,, Cool, but not that great, Details: http://bit.ly/moto-backlip-details-best-worst
The could have made it look a lot better in my opinion. This phone is ugly and doesn’t seem as good as the other phones T-Mobile already has.
it’s a great looking phone with a terrific keyboard. Why do I know that it has a great keyboard? Well, I’m typing this on it. Do I have this phone? Yes and no. The picture looks like my phone. The keyboard looks like mine. It’s made by the same company as mine. My phone is called a Touch Pro 2. I, however, am using a WM OS and not an Android. But….I challenged users who have the latest Android OS (snap draggon?) against my turbo charged WM OS. They walked away depressed, outperformed by this type of phone but using the WM OS. This myTouch is a great phone (it is the Pro 2), too bad it uses Android!
meh, I expected a better looking phone, let’s hope the specs can save this plain jane.