The T-Mobile Sidekick is getting reincarnated in the
carrier’s latest announcement. It was an iconic smartphone that had several
celebrity endorsements, a screen that flipped out in a really cool 180-degree
motion, and its operating system would eventually evolve into what we know
today as Android.
Today, T-Mobile introduces the world’s first
Smartshoephone™: T-Mobile Sidekicks. As fun as they are functional, T-Mobile
Sidekicks are fully tricked out for speed on the fastest LTE network ever and
optimized for unlimited data with T-Mobile ONE, of course. Seeing really is
believing with the new T-Mobile Sidekick.
T-Mobile’s Smartshoephone features a flip-out screen
like the Sidekick, only it pops out of the side of the sole. Share your contact
information quickly by tapping toes with another Sidekicks owner. The kicks
will also light up when you receive an incoming call and the lights will flash
like the Sidekick 3’s scroll ball did.
The T-Mobile sidekicks also have a display that
takes up the entire bottom of the sole of one shoe while the other features
“Sole speakers” and retractable Smart Laces that double as earbuds. There’s
even a “Hey Sidekicks” voice assistant, which features the soothing voice of
T-Mobile’s own CEO, John Legere.
Among some other features, the Smartshoephone is
entirely fictional as this is T-Mobile’s April Fool’s day joke. You can
actually purchase the T-Mobile Sidekicks (which are magenta hi-top
Converse-lookalikes with the words “T-Mobile Sidekicks” on them) for US$ 65 before
April 15. You can pre-order them here. It can’t do any of the smart features,
though, as they’re regular ol’ sneaks. But T-Mobile says “They are magenta AF.”
This April Fool's day joke was cute for T-Mobile,
though it has us wishing there really was a T-Mobile Sidekick reboot after the
Samsung-made and And
