The first time you will come across the T-mobile HTC myTouch 4G Slide, your first impression will probably not so much be different from mine: with this piece of device, who needs a digital camera. If you are looking to take awesome shots, this phone of the future sure beats most of the other Android phone hands down and for only $199.99 on T-Mobile’s website. The MyTouch 4G Slide is a high quality device that compares favourably in every aspect with the best physical slide out keyboard Android phones in the market today, thus making it a great appeal to QWERTY keyboard Android fans. It also has a full virtual soft-touch.
When you buy the myTouch 4G slide, the device comes along with SIM card, battery, A/C adapter, USB cable, and some pamphlets containing instructions and warranty information.
The front side of the phone features a 3.7 inch LCD display screen with the usual four physical buttons (Home, Menu, Back, and Genius Button) beneath it. And below these buttons you will find an optical trackpad to help you navigate around the screen display. There is also a light indicator hidden in the headset grill, a powerful VGA front facing camera, a 8MP rear camera, and a proximity sensor. If you are a physical keyboard fan, you will love the large physical QERTY keyboard with four rows of buttons well-spaced apart from each other.
On the bottom of the phone is a lanyard opening, the microphone and the camera shutter button(silver-coloured) you will find on the right side. The thing I find very cool is that, if you are an avid photo-taker like myself, when the phone is locked, you don’t need to unlock it before you can launch the camera. All you need do is to press and hold the button for a brief moment and the camera is launched. Cool isn’t it? On the left side of the device, you will find the volume button and a microUSB port. The 3.5mm headset jack and power button are located on the top while on the back side, the two LED flash lights, mono speaker, and 8MP camera are found.
In terms of software on the myTouch 4G, I have been able to use it just for a short while for the test period and one thing I found like my other colleagues is that the device is very fast and accurately responsive. The myTouch 4G Slide supports WiFi calling, but don’t get too excited because it will still consume your minutes even though the calls are over WiFi. The phone also packs a boatload of the typical applications like T-Mobile TV, DoubleTwist Sync, Bejeweled 2 demo, and TeleNav GPS, plus Netflix, making it one of the few Android phones that has Netflix by default.
The myTouch 4G runs on the latest Android 2.3 Gingerbread with a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, but disappointingly only 1GB of the 4GB of internal memory is available to the user, and it only comes with an 8GB microSD card preinstalled, though you can expand up to 32GB. It has a 1520 mAh lithium-ion battery which sure confers on it above average battery life span.
All said and done, when T-Mobile’s latest addition, the HTC myTouch 4G Slide, is finally released into the market by the end of this month, you will agree with me that when you have myTouch 4G you won’t need to carry a camera on you any longer.