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Review: HTC myTouch 3G Slide

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Menus Calls/Contacts Messaging Social Networking

HTC and T-Mobile have made a few odd choices on the Slide. The Slide comes with HTC's Friend Stream software. Friend Stream channels all your Twitter and Facebook account status updates into one place. It's OK, though I find that it doesn't refresh as often or consistently as I'd like. It will also link to Flickr.

The Slide also comes with HTC's Peep Twitter client, which is a separate program from Friend Stream. Peep works better than some of the third-party apps out there, but I find the new, official Twitter application is growing on me of late. When it comes to Twitter on Android, you have plenty of free options in the Android Market.

What's really weird is Facebook. Friend Stream interacts with Facebook, but there is no Facebook application actually installed (or at lest discoverable) on the device. I can't understand why Facebook itself would be absent (at least from the app menu). In order to interact fully with Facebook, I had to download the app from the Android Market. That's just goofy.

Android supports pretty much any and all social networks. The Android Market is chock full of apps that interface with them.

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HTC myTouch 3G Slide

3.4" display 320 x 480 pixels
S1 MSM7227 processor
1,300 mAh battery
Memory Card Slot, Hardware Text Keyboard, Headphone Jack (3.5mm)

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