Group Text was pretty easy to set-up, however. You can create groups of your contacts and allow them to reply-all within the group regardless of what carrier they are on. This function came in handy when I was trying to organize who was bringing what for a dinner party. I can think of a million other use cases for Group Text.

The Sidekick also has a handy Universal Composer app when you want to update multiple social networks at once. This idea isn’t exactly cutting-edge (we’ve seen it on most Android devices), but we always find it useful. You can also update your statuses using Google Voice Actions with the app.

The Sidekick comes loaded with T-Mobile’s Media Room as well as Samsung’s Media Hub. Media Room is an all-in-one media app that incorporates content from YouTube, Amazon, T-Mobile TV and . It is a pretty nifty app because you can search across multiple platforms for the content you want. For example, a search for the band “Lightning Bolt” showed artist results from Slacker, YouTube videos and links to downloads via Amazon MP3.

Oddly, Media Room does not seem to incorporate Media Hub’s content. If you want to search for full length movies, you’ll have to use the separate Media Hub app.