T-Mobile announces myTouch 4G Slide

By on Jun 28, 2011 at 8:01 AM
mobile June 28, 2011

T-Mobile and HTC officially took the wraps off of the new myTouch 4G Slide on Tuesday, an Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) handset. As its name implies, the myTouch 4G Slide offers support for T-Mobile’s HSPA+ 4G network. We recently sat down with HTC for a preview of the phone before its launch, and the manufacturer said it spent a great deal of time tweaking the camera software so that the myTouch 4G Slide would offer the best photo performance of any phone HTC has launched. It has improved low-light performance, should have zero shutter lag, and more. We also appreciated the solid design of the myTouch 4G Slide during our demo, and liked that the keyboard was comfortable and didn’t add too much bulk to the phone when it was stored away. The phone runs HTC’s brand new Sense interface on top of a dual-core 1.2Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, so everything was fluid and fast, too. The myTouch 4G Slide is equipped with a 3.7-inch WVGA display, 8-megapixel camera with 1080p video recording, has support for SWYPE, has Netflix software pre-installed, and more. T-Mobile has not announced a price just yet, but the myTouch 4G Slide will be available in July in khaki and black. Read on for the full press release.

New T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide Delivers Most Advanced Camera of Any Smartphone

Latest myTouch device offers premium smartphone features paired with high-end digital camera capabilities for capturing and sharing life’s special moments

BELLEVUE, Wash. — June 28, 2011 — T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced the myTouch 4G Slide, the latest 4G smartphone to join T-Mobile’s exclusive line of myTouch products. The myTouch 4G Slide features the most advanced camera of any smartphone with zero shutter lag, backside illuminated sensor and additional premium digital camera features that offer consumers a viable replacement for their digital point-and-shoot cameras. The myTouch 4G Slide is expected to be available in July.

T-Mobile’s high-speed 4G network continues to expand and is now available in more than 190 markets, reaching more than 200 million people nationwide. With the T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide, T-Mobile customers in these areas can now take advantage of 4G speeds as they instantly capture and then share special moments at the speed of life.

“Knowing that the best camera is the one you’ve got with you, we set out to create a new best-in-class smartphone that allows our customers to leave their cameras at home,” said Andrew Sherrard, senior vice president, marketing, T-Mobile USA. “Our newest myTouch device takes capturing and sharing memories to a new level by combining high-quality smartphone hardware with features that customers would expect from a top-of-the-line digital camera.”

Ideal for capturing that perfect moment with photos that rival high-end dedicated digital cameras, the myTouch 4G Slide comes with an 8-megapixel camera with a dual LED flash and a host of advanced digital camera features, including the following:
·         Improved low-light Performance: with a backside illuminated sensor and a wide aperture lens (f/2.2)
·         Zero shutter lag: innovative software features allow for an instantaneous shot at that precise moment
·         SweepShot™: for capturing panoramic shots by sweeping across an entire scene in a single motion
·         ClearShot™ HDR: for capturing objects in bright settings so your photos are not affected by high-contrast lighting
·         BurstShot™: for capturing multiple photos in a quick burst so you don’t miss the perfect photo

Running on America’s Largest 4G Network™, the myTouch 4G Slide allows customers to instantly capture, and then share, quality photos and videos with a dedicated camera button and one-touch access to post to Facebook, Picasa or Flickr ― all at 4G speeds. A true camera and camcorder replacement, the myTouch 4G Slide features a full HD 1080p camcorder with audio recording and ability to edit videos directly from the device.

Manufactured by HTC exclusively for T-Mobile, the new myTouch 4G Slide features a beautiful 3.7-inch WVGA super LCD touch-screen display, with Swype, and a slide-out full-QWERTY keyboard, offering customers the freedom to choose how they want to input text. Powered by Android™ 2.3 (Gingerbread) and HTC Sense 3.0, the myTouch 4G Slide provides an intuitive and powerful smartphone experience. With support for T-Mobile’s lightning-fast 4G network paired with a 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon™ processor, myTouch 4G Slide customers will experience quick access to their favorite websites, videos, applications and much more.

The myTouch 4G Slide makes staying connected with loved ones more convenient than ever with T-Mobile Video Chat powered by Qik™ for face-to-face video chat on the go and Group Text™ by Bobsled™, which offers an innovative way to send and receive text messages with groups of friends. The new advanced Genius Button™ offers one shot voice commands, powered by Dragon Dictation from Nuance, that simplify the smartphone experience by enabling users to call, text, find a business or search the Web, all with the press of a button. With the myTouch 4G Slide’s Hands Free mode, customers can stay connected while on the road with the option for all notifications to be read out loud — simply tell the phone to text or dial to continue the conversation.

The myTouch 4G Slide offers preloaded entertainment applications, including T-Mobile TV, Netflix and YouTube for real-time mobile video streaming. The myTouch 4G Slide’s entertainment experience also can be shared with the whole family with T-Mobile KidZone, a built-in feature that allows parents to restrict what applications their kids can access on the device without worrying about them making a call or accessing inappropriate material.

Availability
Offered in two colors — black and khaki — the T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide is expected to be available exclusively from T-Mobile in July at T-Mobile retail stores, online at         http://www.t-mobile.com, and from select national retailers and dealers. Customers can visit http://mytouch.t-mobile.com/4g-slide for more information.
T-Mobile’s 4G network has expanded to seven additional markets: Barnstable, Mass.; Chico, Calif.; Lancaster, Penn.; Ogden, Utah; Redding, Calif.; Vineland, N.J., and Winchester, Va.

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  • http://www.droiddoes.com/ iNorm

    More crap made to be sold by people who will claim it can do so much more than the iPhone except have apps you actually want and not force close or be left behind in the upgrade cycle. Great job tmobile.

  • Sin City

    I wonder which carrier is going to be the first to offer a 4.3″ slider.  It seems that 4″ is the norm.  Something iNorm girl says all the time. 

  • Anonymous

    Why can’t VZW have more than one phone with a keyboard?

  • serpentor

    4.7″ screen?

    Is that a typo?

    • serpentor

      Ok, press release says 3.7″

  • Mpolanco21

    bgr you mean “3.7-inch WVGA super LCD touch-screen display” not “The myTouch 4G Slide is equipped with a 4.7-inch WVGA display” we are all human

  • Anonymous

    What a total joke! Last three articles are android. Pathetic BGR, pathetic. This site has gone down hill. I used to come here for the rumors. Now it’s all this android is released or that android has such and such specs. Laughable journalism fellas. True story™©®

  • http://twitter.com/CasualRepartee Triston McIntyre

    good to know my MT4G I have sitting in a drawer while I use my Nexus One probably won’t be seeing gingerbread or a refresh of T-Mobile’s terrible UI elements…on top of Sense 2.0…on top of Android…anytime soon.  

    Here I come, Nexus Prime!

  • Bringit

    And yet another mthr fooking Android phone!  Like farts blowing in the wind.

  • http://robert.aitchison.org raitchison

    Looks like a souped up G2

    Like the physical buttons on the front for home, menu, back & search/”genius”.  The capacitive soft keys on the G2 are lame.

    The keyboard looks pretty much identical to the G2 keyboard, this is not a good thing, you will be happy you have Swype because that keyboard is pretty awful.

    Was not expecting a dual core, this is a nice surprise.

    8MP camera with 1080p capability is not surprising but it’s nice all the same.  I think if the low light and no-lag capabilities of the camera are as advertised it will be great.

    Of course Sense is the elephant in the room, bunch of battery hogging bloatware.

    Having Netflix preinstalled (and no doubt not uninstallable) is not a good thing.  Netflix is a rather poorly behaved app, always running in the background even if you manually close it, another thing to drag your battery down.

    We also don’t know if this will be rootable/romable, The gingerbread builds for the G2 (if you get a warranty replacement) are not rootable at this time.  HTC has said they will allow rooting in the future, but that announcement was made recently and they left themselves the out of “if the carriers allow it” so I’d say there is about a 90% chance that this one will be hard or impossible to root.  Especially since this is burdened with Sense it’s specs are irrelevant unless you can rip out the Sense and load a custom ROM on the thing.

  • James F.

    My current 4G’s speaker phone is crap. The rest of the phone is a total love affair. We’re talking about a phone here folks, so shouldn’t the focus be on quality of sound transmission? That should be the #1 focus of any phone manufacturer. Once that goal is reached, bragging rights for other features could be pursued. It’s “like making the worlds snazziest shovel with so many features but does a poor job of digging a hole. Every phone review on the market should review a phone’s quality of sound first, then the gadgets. Anything less than that is simply sitting in the manufacture’s pocket- an attempt to get your own name into the limelight- poor reviews, and even poorer reporting. So bad speaker phone- bad review!

  • androidsux4life

    wow it looks exactly like the mytouch slide 3g. awesome work, tmobile. very innovative. there’s no way you will ever be bought out….. wait a minute…..

  • Mattyfromma

    The mytouch4g came out in November its a decent phone running froyo would like to see an update to gingerbread.  If most people like me that bought a mytouch4g or HTC product and don’t see updates in a decent amount of time will most likely never buy that product again.

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