Jon Holato

T-Mobile launched the latest round of OTA (over-the-air) updates for the Sidekick 3 today. Release 3.4 will give Sidekick 3 users access to myFaves, a text message character counter, the ability to save photo attachments from emails into your Sidekick 3 photo album, and a new and improved address book.

This is fine and dandy and I’ll even venture as far as to say a much needed update. That being said for me personally it isn’t the end-all update to make me want to keep my SK3. I have a family plan so the myFaves package is virtually pointless. The ability to save emailed photos into my photo album is pretty neat, especially with my 2GB memory card, but the text message character counter and new and improved address book don’t really do much for me. Each of those applications works just fine as they currently stand.

The Sidekick 3 is a great device and were I still in high school or college I probably wouldn’t be able to separate myself from it. However, neither of those is the case and the novelty has worn off, it’s just not doing it for me anymore. So here’s to waiting for the iPhone or Google Phone…