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Keyboard

Easy to cradle SK3 in your hands while typing with thumbs

Solid raised keys, good tactile feel, and no hardware jitters let me hit 25-40 wpm without really looking at the keyboard

Full set of accented (European) and extended characters

Separate number keys, two alt, and two shift keys

Full support for copy/paste, including shift-selecting of text

Interface

Sleep screen shows notifications for new e-mail, IM, SMS, ...

Small alert in upper-right corner of display when a new e-mail, IM, SMS, ... comes in and you’re using a different app

Easy two-key access to any app, such as Jump+B for browser (this is HUGE, people!)

Consistent UI across all applications (rare!)

Physical device

Solid feel to the case, even after 14+ months

Trackball is brilliant: fast and easy to use

Battery life is reasonable, if you charge every night

Desktop interface

Every Sidekick has its own Desktop Interface on the web

Most anything you enter on the Sidekick - like notes or Address Book entries - shows up on the Desktop, and vice-versa

If your Sidekick falls in the toilet or otherwise gets destroyed, your new one will recover everything for you automatically

The bad

Okay, fanboy, enough blowing sunshine.  There has to be something wrong with your precious little Sidekick 3, eh?  Well, here are my gripes, compared against my personal needs, of course .... your mileage my vary.

Camera

Gets grainy when taking pictures at night, even with ‘flash’

Odd bug: if you hit Jump while it’s saving a picture, the backlight stays on indefinitely until you take another picture

Not good at taking pictures of fast-moving objects (like out the side window of a car)

Download catalog

Limited set of applications, and slow to get new ones