T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide
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The T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide is a touchscreen
Touchscreen
A touchscreen is an electronic visual display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area. The term generally refers to touching the display of the device with a finger or hand. Touchscreens can also sense other passive objects, such as a stylus...

 Slider smartphone
Smartphone
A smartphone is a high-end mobile phone built on a mobile computing platform, with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary feature phone. The first smartphones were devices that mainly combined the functions of a personal digital assistant and a mobile phone or camera...

 designed and manufactured by HTC Corporation for T-Mobile USA
T-Mobile USA
T-Mobile USA, Inc. is an American mobile-network operator, headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, that provides wireless voice, messaging and data services in the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The company is the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S. market with 33.73...

. It is the fourth in the Mytouch
MyTouch
myTouch is a series of private label mobile phones manufactured by HTC Corporation and LG marketed in the United States by T-Mobile USA under the T-Mobile brand. Each phone in the series runs a version of the Android software stack....

 family. The phone resembles the myTouch 4G at first glance but other details and the interface gives it away. The myTouch is the first myTouch to have HTC Espresso 3.0, similar to HTC Sense 3.0
HTC Sense
HTC Sense is a graphical user interface developed by HTC Corporation for mobile devices running Android, Brew and Windows Mobile.Based on the TouchFLO 3D design, HTC has referred to HTC Sense as both a user interface in itself and also as a user experience layer on top of TouchFLO 3D.Announced June...

. Highlights include: the 8 megapixel camera, the Genius Button, and keyboard.

The myTouch 4G Slide was unveiled on July 11 2011 on the T-Mobile website. Pre-orders were taken on July 14. The phone was finally launched on July 26 2011.

Development

During development, the myTouch 4G Slide was known as HTC "Doubleshot" and was leaked out to the public as its official name. myTouch developers had read numerous reviews and found many people hated the quality on cameras found on most phones. The team then created the 4G Slide to be capable of using a very strong camera.

Release

The myTouch 4G Slide was released to the United States on July 26th, 2011 through T-Mobile USA
T-Mobile USA
T-Mobile USA, Inc. is an American mobile-network operator, headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, that provides wireless voice, messaging and data services in the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The company is the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S. market with 33.73...

. The phone confirms the rumors set on multiple blogs.

Design

The design of the myTouch 4G Slide is a refinement of the design of the myTouch 4G. From the front, the phones look very similar, the main difference between small changes to the four physical buttons. The back of the phones are noticably different. Also, the screen on the myTouch 4G Slide is 3.7", meanwhile the myTouch 4G has 3.8". The myTouch 4G Slide is thicker than the myTouch 4G due to the addition of the sliding physical keyboard. The physical keyboard comes out of the left-side of the phone.

Physical Keyboard & Input

The myTouch 4G Slide stands out amongst other Android handsets because of its rare physical slide-out keyboard. The keyboard has 4 rows.

Also, the phone has four physical keys on the front: Home, Menu, Back, and the Genius Button along with the optical trackpad."Genius" is a custom voice command and text-to-speech system powered by Dragon Dictation technologies. The button replaces, and is in the location of, the Search button previously on the myTouch 3G. On the sides, the phone has the camera and volume up/down buttons. On the top, the phone has its lock/power button.

Screen

The myTouch 4G Slide has a 3.7-inches (480 x 800 Pixels) WVGA Super LCD Touchscreen
Touchscreen
A touchscreen is an electronic visual display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area. The term generally refers to touching the display of the device with a finger or hand. Touchscreens can also sense other passive objects, such as a stylus...

. The multi-touch
Multi-touch
In computing, multi-touch refers to a touch sensing surface's ability to recognize the presence of two or more points of contact with the surface...

 display is designed to be used with a bare finger or multiple fingers.

Processor and memory

The myTouch 4G Slide features a 1.2 GHz dual-core Snapdragon  processor and supports up to a 32 GB MicroSD card (an 8 GB card is included).

Cameras

The myTouch 4G Slide features a rear-facing 8 megapixel camera capable of recording videos in 1080p at 30 frames per second and dual flash which helps to illuminate objects in low-light conditions. The camera comes with a bundle of features including: Sweepshot, Burstshot, HDR(High Dynamic Range), and zero shutter lag. In addition, the myTouch 4G Slide has a 1.3 megapixel camera on front of the device designed for use with video calling and for taking portrait images although it can also be used in other applications.

The camera has been highly-praised by various reviewers. Notably, tech blog Gizmodo
Gizmodo
Gizmodo is a technology weblog about consumer electronics. It is part of the Gawker Media network run by Nick Denton and is known for its up-to-date coverage of the technology industry, along with topics as broad as design; architecture; space and science....

 raised the point that the myTouch 4G slide may be "The Best Camera Phone Everrrr"

Battery and power

The device comes pre-installed with a 1520 mAh Li-ion rechargeable battery that is designed to be user-replaceable. Stand by for the preinstalled phone is Standby time: 12.4 days (HSPA+), 9.8 days (2G) Talk time: 6.9 hours (HSPA+), 8.9 hours (2G)

Interface

A modified HTC Sense
HTC Sense
HTC Sense is a graphical user interface developed by HTC Corporation for mobile devices running Android, Brew and Windows Mobile.Based on the TouchFLO 3D design, HTC has referred to HTC Sense as both a user interface in itself and also as a user experience layer on top of TouchFLO 3D.Announced June...

 3.0 user interface is added for the 4G Slide. Some differences on the Sense included the bottom of the screen changed to suit the myTouch, and 5 screens instead of the original 7.

Networks

The device features quad-band (850/900/1800/1900) GSM connectivity for 2G networks. For HSPA+ UMTS bands I, II and IV
UMTS frequency bands
The UMTS frequency bands are radio frequencies used by third generation wireless Universal Mobile Telecommunications System networks.They were allocated by delegates to the World Administrative Radio Conference held in Málaga-Torremolinos, Spain between February 3, 1992 and March 3, 1992...

 are supported, providing speeds up to 21.1Mbps downlink and 5.76Mbps uplink.

See also

  • List of Android devices
  • Android (operating system)
  • T-Mobile myTouch 4G
    T-Mobile myTouch 4G
    The T-Mobile myTouch 4G is a smartphone designed and manufactured by HTC Corporation for T-Mobile USA. HTC's name for the device during development was "Glacier". This is T-Mobile's second "4G" phone, after the T-Mobile G2, and the third smartphone by T-Mobile that runs Android 2.2 Froyo software...

  • Trackpad

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