| The Sidekick ID is configured for T-Mobile's | | | | it looks less intimidating to a novice. |
| myFaves service that allows you to designate | | | | |
| 5 people as your favorites and call them as | | | | The Sidekick's interface has gained a few |
| much as you want without using your minutes - | | | | buttons, and has one too many navigator |
| and those five can be landlines or cell phone | | | | methods. The main navigator, a track ball, is |
| numbers on any carrier. Don't worry - you're | | | | also found on the Sidekick 3. This trackball |
| not committed to those 5 for the life of your | | | | works great, though. Sidekick's slight |
| contract. You can rearrange your 5 favorite | | | | texture improves traction. I've been |
| people up to once a month. | | | | surprised that skin oils haven't made it |
| | | | difficult to use, or changed its color. It's |
| The Sidekick's landscape orientation allows | | | | a white translucent plastic that allows T |
| concealment of a wide thumb-pad. Sidekick's | | | | Mobile Sidekick iD to glow and change color |
| keypad is just right for my thumbs, not | | | | (slow flashing blue for standby, flashing |
| requiring too much reach. I recall that the | | | | purple for an incoming call, for example). |
| original Sidekick's overall width made typing | | | | |
| a little more comfortable, at 4.5 inches from | | | | Rolling the ball around can navigate in menus |
| side-to-side, but the iD's 5.1 inches don't | | | | and through emails, but mostly only works up |
| make Sidekick difficult. Although I won't say | | | | and down. One exception is in pull down |
| Sidekick's necessarily better than a Treo | | | | menus, where a second flyout menu is accessed |
| keyboard for its width, I'd be willing to bet | | | | with a roll to the right. |