Start a site called TMoNews and you'd better have a solid line on T-Mo news, right? Well, it looks like my man David has just that. While he made sure to title his latest blog post, "Tentative release dates," it looks like
David's got hold of T-Mobile's summer roadmap and it's headed up by an answer to the question I've been getting a lot lately: Any news on the new Sidekick?
While I thought we'd see Sidekick '09 this past week at CTIA, I was wrong. And now it looks like the "Blade" will be dropping in just over a month, on May 13. I know T-Mo's planning a concert tour to promote the new messaging device, and it looks like they'll be using the tour to build pre-launch interest, as opposed to trying to push sales post-launch. Either way, SK fans can start saving their pennies now.
Here's the rest of the list:
- “Blade” (Sidekick 2009) - May 13
- HTC “Maple”/”Snap” - July 1st (contrary to earlier speculation, this seems to confirm a T-Mobile variant)
- HTC “Rhodium”/Wing II - July 22nd (also known as the Touch Pro 2)
- HTC “Sapphire”/”Magic” - TBD. Sorry folks.. we’ll keep you posted (a.k.a. G2)
- Sony Ericsson “CS8? - June 24th (8mp camera? Is this the Android device they’ve been talking about?)
- Nokia 1661 (prepaid) - April 29th (We know, a week later than previously mentioned. But you know the wait will be SO worth it. No… really… it will be… )
- Samsung T349 (prepaid) - May 6th
- Samsung T239 (prepaid) - May 13th
- Samsung T559 - July 15th
- Samsung T469 - July 15th (just a simple two-tone gray, apparently)
- Samsung T749 - July 22nd (2 colors for this one: red/orange and two-tone gray)
- Samsung T659 - August 19th
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