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Project Emerald Really an HTC-Made, Android-Running Sidekick?

Categories: Android, HTC, Rumors, T-Mobile
By: , IntoMobile
Monday, May 17th, 2010 at 8:19 AM

One thing was right about the first Project Emerald rumour: T-Mobile is likely launching a Nexus One-grade smartphone, but it’s not going to be the Samsung Galaxy S, as expected. Supposedly, Project Emerald will actually be related to a new Sidekick phone made by HTC, running Android 2.1, using a 1 Ghz processor, have a massive 4.3″ Super AMOLED display, have 16 GB of storage memory, and rock a front-facing camera. Of course, all of the social networking doohickeys that have traditionally been loaded up onto Sidekicks will also find their way onto this model.

The last Sidekick was the LX, which tried to get a little more businessy with Exchange support. Since then, the myTouch Slide has been getting all of the attention as T-Mobile’s flagship Android slider, but if this Project Emerald turns out to be as awesome as it sounds, the MyTouch Slide could quickly take a back seat. We haven’t seen many devices rock a touchscreen that large as well as a full QWERTY keyboard – the Dell Lightning and the Toshiba K01 come to mind – it would be interesting to see what HTC cooks up.

[via TmoNews]

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  • brokenbox

    Since Microsoft bought danger I can’t see a sidekick running android. I work for t-mobile and I would be shocked. Microsoft must really be loosing market share no wonder stock price dropping. Why after the horrible 4th quarter losses and the horrible stigma around the name sidekick would htc associate is great products with that.

    • Joy

      Microsoft owns danger(and danger is the reason the servers went down on sidekicks in oct)… sidekick is athe tmobile name for the devices, tmobile could name any phone they wanted sidekick….because they own the "name"…..

  • Desuku

    It would be nice to see a phone similar to the past sidekicks but running Android. That’d be a nice update to the old sidekick users.