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Sidekick 3: mobile email "simple enough for any bimbo to operate"

It takes a brave writer to recommend a mobile phone with the words: "Think about it: This is the only e-mail handheld easy enough for Paris Hilton to use." And, famously, to lose (well, it got hacked).

Inexplicably, the Sidekick, or "Hiptop" which is such a cult phone in the US, is still unavailable in the UK. It is, without doubt, the most generally useful all-round pocket device so far launched, and if the release of the new Sidekick 3 isn't vastly different from the previous version, that's simply because it got most of it right before."The SK3—which will be available on June 28 to existing T-Mobile customers and on July 10 to other folks—looks like the Sidekick II on a diet. It's noticeably narrower, at 5.1 by 2.3 by 0.9 inches and 6.7 ounces. It's longer and heavier, but slimmer, than the T-Mobile MDA and Palm Treo 700p," said an enthusiastic Sascha Segan, writing in PC Magazine

Main change: MP3 player at last, and a better camera. Full details are press released on the T-Mobile site, and it lists the full set of new features as:

Tags: Sidekick, Hiptop, Paris Hilton