Alright so if you are like me you have thought about getting rid of your Sidekick LX. It seemed to be missing all the important features a next gen phone should have. Well minus GPS and Wifi our prayers have been answered and I couldn’t be more excited and happy! Just this morning the details of the new OTA (Over The Air Update) leaked out and they are very juicy! Updates begin to hit the devices on June 25th! Here is the list of all updates!
Jump Menu & Settings Features
- Backgrounds menu renamed to “Themes”
- Quick Find item searches across device apps
- Empty Trash across device apps
- Spell Check
- Alarm Clock
Web Browser Features
- View Web pages in two layouts: fit-to-screen and full-page-width
- View and save images on Web pages
- Copy selected text on Web pages (method change)
Instant Messaging Features
AOL Instant Messenger
- Group chats
- Find a buddy
- Set a status message and still chat (We think this means an Available message.)
Yahoo! Messenger
- Find a friend
Windows Live Messenger
- Find a contact
Email
- See if message recipient is online
- Send/receive video attachment
Phone Messaging Features
Multimedia Messaging
- Number of slides increased to five
- Send/receive videos
- Audio recording time increased to 60 seconds
Text Messaging
- Auto-discard messages when mailbox is full
- Multi-select messages
Address Book
- Assign 50 “favorite” contacts that appear in their own tab
- Activity Log for each favorite contact
- Online Now tab shows all contacts who are online
- In Browse Contacts screen, Send key places call to highlighted contact
- Send vCard via MMS (in addition to Email, SMS, and Bluetooth)
- Select multiple contacts in Browse Contacts screen.
Bluetooth
- Transfer photos, videos, music files
- Listen to music/videos with hands-free stereo devices
Printing is subsequently missing from this list, but IS in the 4.6 Manual for the LX.
To Do
- New task priority icons
Camera
- Record and send video
- Selection method change
- Crop a photo
- Manually control slide show
- Space remaining shown in title bar
- Send photos/videos via Bluetooth
Media Player
- Play videos
Catalog
- Installing an application or game does not require a device restart
- More space for ringtones (Ringtones are now allocated 2560K rather than 10 slots. Since ringtones are around 100K each, you have room to store approximately 25 ringtones.)
- Assign a default theme/background or ringtone at purchase time
So that’s that! How about that though… new AIM can chat while away/post “status” msg, spell checking EVERYWHERE, and of course you knew (cause I told you) that video was coming! Chat rooms now officially supported, video sharing on the fly, and the web browser can zoom and display pages better! I am so amped for this.
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