At this point it seems to come without question that we will be seeing a new Sidekick in the coming months, what seems to be more of the mystery at this point is what it will be called. So far the circulating rumors have referred to it as the Sidekick 2009, Sidekick LX 2009 and more »

Despite the fact that the upcoming Sidekick is often being referred to as both the Sidekick 2009 and also by the codename of Blade, that does not seem to have stopped someone from leaking a nice, and surprisingly not very blurry image. Although, not a big difference in style, the Blade does seem to be more »

An official announcement has yet to come, but details of the next Sidekick are beginning to leak out. While these details are still unofficial, they are coming courtesy of a Microsoft job posting and a recent survey.

So far, what we can tell you is that it looks like the upcoming Sidekick, the LX 2009 will be dubbed the Blade and feature a 3.2-inch WVGA display, a microSD card slot, 3.2-megapixel camera and come with a slew of pre-installed social networking and blogging applications. As for the social networking apps, those look to include Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube. The blogging side includes a publishing, editing, and management tool as well as photo uploading to Photobucket and video uploading to both MySpace and Photobucket.