Yet another mobile out there for US$200 with a two year plan. This time it’s the T-Mobile Sidekick Slide with a sliding screen no less plus all the following bits and pieces

* QWERTY keypad
* Email, text, pxt and instant messaging
* 1.3 MP camera
* Bluetooth connectivity
* Speakerphone
* Micro SD slot
* Quad-band GSM
* 5 hours talk time and 3 days on standby
* Support for AAC, MP3 and WMA formats

To be honest the Slide offers no more than any other $200 phone out there, in fact a 1.3 MP camera seems to be a bit of a rip-off, however if you like the sliding screen it just may be your cup of tea. But I don’t really think this phone will fulfill even the average mobile user’s needs and T-Mobile have dropped the ball with this offering at that price. The Sidekick Slide could one of the first to get a price cut in the build up to Christmas.

Source: T-Mobile

T-Mobile have launched their latest mobile phone on the world, well at least the US - it’s the HTC designed Shadow. For US$150 and a $20 a month contract you can get your mits on one of these suckers and boy are they sexy looking too.

The Shadow sports MS Windows Mobile 6, a 2.6 inch display, a 2MP camera, wi-fi and bluetooth connectivity, a speakerphone and a MicroSD slot for memory expansion. It has had a mixed reaction with CruchGear giving it a thumbs up whilst PC World are not quite so praising in their review.

However priced at $150 I think you’re getting quite a bargain with the Shadow, it certainly has everything you’d expect these days from a phone at that price and looks pretty good too.

According to the rumour mill on September 18th O2 will be announced as the official carrier for the Apple iPhone in the UK, whilst T-Mobile and Orange win the German and French deals respectively. Apparently at 10am BST there will be an Apple event in London probably announcing these much rumoured deals for European carriers.

The deals have come with a hefty price tag - it’s believed that Apple will receive 40% of iPhone revenue from each carrier, that’s right, revenue not profit. Nice!

So what about all the old Vodafone rumours floating around not so long ago. Well I reckon that the 40% revenue share was just too much to swallow for some carriers and they will take their chances with other mobile manufacturers. O2 and the others have obviously decided that the iPhone branding will reap other financial rewards at some stage as a 40% revenue share must surely spell ‘loss-making venture’?

The only people smiling right now are the Apple execs who dreamt up this plan of dominance business plan. Oh and of course European mobile users who can now find out what all the fuss was about ‘over the pond’ a few months ago.

Source: Electronista

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