The T-Mobile MyTouch Slide was already outed well ahead of the carrier officially announcing it, but besides having a look at the phone’s interface and its exteriors, we haven’t seen much. TmoNews got their hands on a video via InfoSyncWorld who got an exclusive first look at the device thanks to T-Mobile’s vice president of product development, Andrew Sherrard.
The clip gives you a quick run down of the phone and its Espresso UI running on top of Android 2.1. If this thing is underpowered, then I can’t tell because everything looks very smooth. He demonstrated swiping through several homescreens set up with different widgets and icons, gave us a look at the pretty Weather animations that HTC is becoming popular for, and ventured into his contacts to call someone named “Robert”. Later on, we see a sophisticated-looking woman send a text and follow it up with a phone call.
It gives you a good idea of what you should expect when you pick the phone up, but something about that contact book threw me off. This is one of the cases I’m hoping HTC will allow us to disable the Sense UI as navigating contacts – outside of using universal search – looks like a very dreadful task.