Great Android phone.. just don't get it wet AT ALL!!!

This is my second Sidekick phone the first was drowned.. This Review is a combination of both phones... as phones go it does have a few oddities... if you charge it with a power supply that doesn't provide a lot of power the phone's touch screen won't work while charging.. the battery life is fairly poor... it's water tolerance is awful.. don't use it in the rain don't get it damp... this died the first time when a little spilled tap water went across the table getting a little water into the back plate.. I was able to dry it and use it again.. but the back key and a couple of the letters on the kb no longer worked (u turned up the volume and the back key put out 7&z or something like that D just died) the second time was it's doom.. I fell off my boat into a lake with it in my pocket... then while drying it apart in the sun a sudden thunderstorm moved over and drowned it again... I ordered a new one... as for the good side of this phone it has some good camera features the panorama is my favorite... but no zoom (odd) it also plays games well and the touch screen is good. it plays video without problems and the sound is good... the Android functions are very good as is the layout. I have used several other android phones and I find this one fast and easier to use.. the Keyboard is excellent.. the battery life sucks a bit... it will last 12 hours on a good day if you don't play games or make a lot of calls...

The reason I bought this phone is that it was an inexpensive T-Mobile 4G slider... I *HATE* onscreen keyboards.. I do a lot of text entry and when using the soft keys it takes me 5X the time to do anything because of all the correcting... the small QWERTY that it uses is very easy to type on..

in short
The Good
The Qwerty slider Keyboard
The Processor speed
The layout of the Android system
The 4G speed
The ease of use
The Camera (conditional)
The screen size
The Touchscreen (conditional)

The Bad
The poor water tolerance
The battery life
The Touchscreen (doesn't work under low power situations)
The Camera (no zoom WHY!?!?)

Durable phone but crashes alot.

Me and my wife both have these phones and I have to say they are not very good. The features of the phone are pretty nice with a good camera but it has limited storage space on the phone (only 135MB) which most of it is taken by the android operating system and factory installed apps that you can't get rid of. You can't even use the camera if you do not put an external memory card in. The processin power of this phone is minimal. The phone will freeze up when trying to open your picture gallery or other apps, Overload and drain the battery, and then reset and turn back on. Next thing you know you just went from 90% battery to 5% battery. On the plus side they are pretty durable. Mine fell out of my car while driving and got ran over by another car and I put the batter back in and it still worked. It also survived countless drops to the floor before the screen finally cracked. I give it a 4/5 for features. A 5/5 for durability. But for useability and function I would have to give it a 2/5 due to the constant freezing and resetting and overloading of the battery. Hard to use a phone that freezes when you want to use the GPS or look at pictures or anytime it goes to update apps.

It goes behond working

OK this has got to go under the heading of "you ain't gonna believe this" I took my granddaughter and her boyfriend out on the boat about a month ago and while putting the boat in the water I dropped my brand new Samsung sidekick phone in the lake. I didn't notice this fact till about an hour later I was needless to say sick at the thought of tell my wonderful wife this as she had gotten it fr me for our anniversary, when we got home about 3 hours later I decided to go back and look for it actually feel for it as I figured it must have fallen out of the holder when I jumped on the boat from the dock. anyway I got in the water and found the phone at edge of the ramp. I pulled it out of the water and first thing took the back off and pulled out the battery.
When I got home we got online and found that you can put the phone in a bowl of rice (un-cooked of course), also that you could put in a airtight box and pull all the air out and the water wold boil out. So I put the phone in a bag of rice and a airtight box, I pull the air out and left it in it only taking it out to dry the rice in the micro not more than 20 seconds, I did this for two weeks, every thing looked dry so i took the phone apart and put it back in the rice and box for another week. when I put back togather it didn't work i was bummed out big time, in the mean time iI got a replacement phone and figured the other one was a loss and put it my desk well two days ago I pulled it out and thought what the heck I'll try it one more time...... I pluged the charger in put the battery in and the screen came on and showed it was charging OMG so I pushed the power button OMG again it came on so far every thing works. This has got to be one of the best phones out there...

Good functionality, reliablity, ease of use and good price for the quality.

I'm writing this for my wife. She wanted a quarty keyboard and I wanted her to have the 4g access. I handeled the phone at the T-Mobile store and got used to the system. After looking at the phone on Ebay, which is my first source of pricing, I bid and got this one. The biggest advantage is that my wife likes it so I'm looking good. I don't have to look up all the info for her as much due to the functions available on this phone (android 2.3). She's getting use to the voice typing now and yes I would buy it again. Battery use is average and the speed is quick enough. I think a great value for the money spent.

GREAT

Great phone and very easy to use. I love the keyboard. The touch screen is very responsive and clear. Overall the best phone I've had