The T-Mobile
myTouch
The T-Mobile myTouch or myTouch series is a product line of private label smartphones manufactured by HTC, LG and Huawei sold and marketed in the United States by T-Mobile USA under the T-Mobile brand. Each phone in the series runs a version of ...
4G Slide is a
touchscreen
A touchscreen or touch screen is the assembly of both an input ('touch panel') and output ('display') device. The touch panel is normally layered on the top of an electronic visual display of an information processing system. The display is ofte ...
slider
Slider or Sliders may refer to:
Arts
* K.K. Slider, a fictional character within the ''Animal Crossing'' franchise
* '' The Slider'', a 1972 album by T. Rex
* ''Sliders'' (TV series), an American science fiction and fantasy television series
* ...
smartphone
A smartphone is a portable computer device that combines mobile telephone and computing functions into one unit. They are distinguished from feature phones by their stronger hardware capabilities and extensive mobile operating systems, whic ...
designed and manufactured by
HTC Corporation
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for
T-Mobile USA
T-Mobile US, Inc. is an American wireless network operator headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas
Overland Park ( ) is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas. Located in Johnson County, Kansas, it is one of four principal ...
's "
myTouch
The T-Mobile myTouch or myTouch series is a product line of private label smartphones manufactured by HTC, LG and Huawei sold and marketed in the United States by T-Mobile USA under the T-Mobile brand. Each phone in the series runs a version of ...
" series of phones. It is the fourth of the
myTouch
The T-Mobile myTouch or myTouch series is a product line of private label smartphones manufactured by HTC, LG and Huawei sold and marketed in the United States by T-Mobile USA under the T-Mobile brand. Each phone in the series runs a version of ...
family. The myTouch 4G Slide is the first myTouch to feature
HTC Espresso 3.0, a
graphical user interface
The GUI ( "UI" by itself is still usually pronounced . or ), graphical user interface, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and audio indicator such as primary notation, inst ...
similar to
HTC Sense 3.0. Highlights include an 8-megapixel camera, the Genius Button, and a hardware keyboard.
The myTouch 4G Slide was unveiled on the T-Mobile website on July 11, 2011.
Pre-orders began on July 14, 2011, and the phone was launched on July 26.
History
Development
During development, the myTouch 4G Slide was known as the "HTC Doubleshot", which was leaked to the public as the phone's official name.
Release
The myTouch 4G Slide was released to the United States on July 26, 2011 through
T-Mobile USA
T-Mobile US, Inc. is an American wireless network operator headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas
Overland Park ( ) is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas. Located in Johnson County, Kansas, it is one of four principal ...
. The phone confirmed rumors written in multiple
blogs.
Design
The design of the myTouch 4G Slide is a refinement of that of the
myTouch 4G. From the front, the phones look similar; the main differences between the two are small changes to the four physical buttons and a slightly smaller screen (the myTouch 4G Slide has a 3.7-inch screen, and the myTouch 4G a 3.8-inch screen). The backs of the phones, however, are noticeably different. The myTouch 4G Slide is thicker than the
myTouch 4G due to the Slide's physical keyboard, which is not present on the myTouch 4G.
Hardware
Physical keyboard and input
The myTouch 4G Slide stands out amongst other
Android handsets because of its uncommon physical slide-out four-row keyboard. The Keyboard is backlighted when the Ambient Light Sensor detects low light, but this leaves the keyboard hard to see in many common situations. An aftermarket app called Tasker includes control to force the keyboard backlight to stay on.
The phone has four physical keys on the front: Home, Menu, Back, and the Genius Button; along with an optical
trackpad
A touchpad or trackpad is a pointing device featuring a tactile sensor, a specialized surface that can translate the motion and position of a user's fingers to a relative position on the operating system that is made output to the screen. Touchp ...
. "Genius" is a custom voice command and text-to-speech system powered by
Dragon Dictation technologies.
The Genius Button replaces the Search button from the
myTouch 3G. On the sides, the phone has its camera and volume adjustment buttons. On the top, the phone has its lock/power button.
Screen
The myTouch 4G Slide has a 3.7",
480-by-800 pixel,
WVGA Super LCD touchscreen
A touchscreen or touch screen is the assembly of both an input ('touch panel') and output ('display') device. The touch panel is normally layered on the top of an electronic visual display of an information processing system. The display is ofte ...
. The
multi-touch display is designed to be used with either a bare finger or multiple fingers.
Processor and memory
The myTouch 4G Slide features a 1.2 GHz dual-core
Snapdragon
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S3 (Adreno 220
GPU
A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device. GPUs are used in embedded systems, mobi ...
) processor and 768 MB
RAM
Ram, ram, or RAM may refer to:
Animals
* A male sheep
* Ram cichlid, a freshwater tropical fish
People
* Ram (given name)
* Ram (surname)
* Ram (director) (Ramsubramaniam), an Indian Tamil film director
* RAM (musician) (born 1974), Dutch
* ...
, and supports up to a 32 GB
MicroSD card (an 8 GB card typically comes with the phone).
Cameras
The myTouch 4G Slide features a rear-facing
8-megapixel camera capable of recording
1080p video at
30 frames per second, with a dual flash that helps illuminate objects in low-light conditions. The built-in camera software comes with features including Sweepshot, Burstshot,
HDR (high dynamic range), and
zero shutter lag. In addition, the myTouch 4G Slide has a
VGA
Video Graphics Array (VGA) is a video display controller and accompanying de facto graphics standard, first introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers in 1987, which became ubiquitous in the PC industry within three years. The term can no ...
camera on the front of the device designed for
video call
Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) syste ...
s and self-portraits; it is allowed to be used by other applications.
The camera has been highly praised by various reviewers. Notably, the technology blog
Gizmodo suggested that the myTouch 4G Slide's camera was "the best camera phone ever".
Battery and power
The device comes pre-installed with a 1520 mAh
Li-ion rechargeable battery designed to be user-replaceable. Battery life is stated to be 12.4 days in standby using
HSPA+ and 9.8 days in 2G, with a talk time of 6.9 hours (HSPA+) or 8.9 hours (2G).
Interface
A modified
HTC Sense
HTC Sense is a software suite developed by HTC, used primarily on the company's Android-based devices. Serving as a successor to HTC's TouchFLO 3D software for Windows Mobile, Sense modifies many aspects of the Android user experience, incor ...
3.0 user interface was added to the 4G Slide. Some differences in the Sense modification include a different screen bottom designed specifically for 4G slide, and having only 5 desktop screens instead of the original 7.
Alternative firmware
There is an unofficial port of CyanogenMod 11.0 (Android 4.4.2) for the device; the CyanogenMod development team is making efforts towards official inclusion in the list of supported devices. Various other mods and firmware releases also exist.
Networks
The device features quad-band (850/900/1800/1900)
GSM
The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation ( 2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such ...
connectivity for
2G networks. For
HSPA+ UMTS bands I, II and IV are supported,
T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide
t-mobile.com. Retrieved on 2011-11-25. providing speeds up to 21.1 Mbit/s download and 5.76 Mbit/s upload.
See also
* List of Android devices
This is a list of devices that run on the Android operating system
Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such ...
* Android (operating system)
Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android is developed by a consortium of ...
* T-Mobile myTouch 4G
The T-Mobile myTouch 4G is a smartphone designed and manufactured by HTC Corporation for T-Mobile USA's "myTouch" re-branded series of phones. HTC's name for the device during development was "Glacier". This is T-Mobile's second "4G" phone, aft ...
* Galaxy Nexus
The Galaxy Nexus (GT-I9250) is a touchscreen Android smartphone co-developed by Google and Samsung Electronics. It is the third smartphone in the Google Nexus series, a family of Android consumer devices built by an original equipment manufactu ...
* Trackpad
A touchpad or trackpad is a pointing device featuring a tactile sensor, a specialized surface that can translate the motion and position of a user's fingers to a relative position on the operating system that is made output to the screen. Touchp ...
References
External links
T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide official website
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Mobile phones introduced in 2011
Android (operating system) devices
Smartphones
Mobile phones with an integrated hardware keyboard
MyTouch
T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide