![]() And that store holds some gems, such as Melodeo’s Mobilcast for grabbing podcast feeds, but even that app needs to get the kinks worked out (audio hiccups and unfulfilling lists of podcasts). Oh, sure, I could drop $10 for Intellisync so that I can move my Outlook contacts over to the device, or I could dig up the small handful of productivity apps that hide in the download store. My greatest frustration with the Sidekick is its wasted potential: It could be much more than just a kid’s phone. And the T-Mobile EDGE data network crawled along at insufferably slow speeds when I browsed the Web. The Sidekick still can’t read Microsoft Word documents–a feature that has been lacking since the first Sidekick hit the scene. Maybe I’m a little spoiled by the ability to hack Windows Mobile 6.1. The Sidekick’s Danger OS remains constrained and sluggish. Unfortunately, along with a lot of the old things I like, many annoying issues linger in the newest Sidekick. I’ve also been a big fan of how Sidekick handsets easily integrate instant messaging (AIM, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo) with fewer hiccups and slowdowns than on other smart phones I’ve used, and the Sidekick 2008 is no exception. The phone’s features continue to evolve: For example, it’s a snap to add more e-mail accounts (AOL, Windows Live, Yahoo, and POP/IMAP e-mail such as Gmail–but don’t try to get the corporate-oriented Lotus Notes working). The Sidekick 2008 is a refined Sidekick LX that costs about $50 less than its predecessor (when you sign up for a two-year plan, the 2008 model costs $200).Īnyone familiar with Sidekicks will be happy to know that the interface and all of its handy shortcuts have pretty much carried over from the Sidekick LX. The newest Sidekick measures 4.7 by 2.3 by 0.7 inches it’s roughly the same size as the iPhone 3G, but a little thicker. Why? I blame the poky EDGE network, the phone’s limited productivity uses, and the fact that I’m apparently not young enough. Even so, that isn’t quite sufficient to sway me to T-Mobile’s newest hipster smart phone. “Personal information stored on your device such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger,” a Microsoft unit, the company said.The Sidekick 2008 has the best cell-phone keyboard I’ve ever used, and its trackball lets you whip through messages at lightning speed. When operating normally, the Sidekick retrieves data from Microsoft servers after an event such as a phone reset. It also advised customers against resetting a Sidekick by removing the battery or letting the battery drain as this would still result in the loss of any personal content stored on the device made by Danger, a company Microsoft bought in 2008. ![]() T-Mobile USA, a unit of Deutsche Telekom, said in a notice available on its website on Monday that its customers who do have such data stored locally on their Sidekick devices will “almost certainly” have lost the data. Models Ashleah O'Shea (L) and Arielle Vandenberg take a pictures of themselves at the party for the launch of T-Mobile Sidekick 3 in Los Angeles June 20, 2006. ![]()
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