Nowadays smartphones powered by iOS, Android and more are quickly becoming more popular than ever before. However, just a few short years ago the T-Mobile Sidekick was all the rage with consumers wowed by things like browsing the web, chatting on AIM and more. Of course to us, this doesn’t seem like much but back then it [...]

Now a days it’s almost hard to find a high end smartphone that doesn’t come with a large touchscreen, perhaps a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and some beefy hardware specs. This, of course, isn’t a bad thing but it’s certainly a change from yesteryear. In fact, while smartphones running Android and iOS are all the rage [...]

T-Mobile is one of the nation’s largest carriers and has hard hitting devices like the HTC G2 and Samsung Vibrant in its arsenal. However, back in the day, T-Mobile had their hands on arguably one of the hottest devices – the Sidekick. While the line up has since been discontinued T-Mobile maintains the trademark and [...]

Apparently, T-Mobile is going to follow in the Microsoft Kin footsteps and discontinue the Sidekick line. That’s sort of fitting as it was expected, as I remember that the Kin was suppose to surmount the Sidekick. This means that the Sidekicks will be truly no more, and that includes the Sidekick LX 2009. …

In about a week, Microsoft has some very cool event in San Francisco, where they will announce something big. This feels like something that Apple would do, as the Microsoft corporation is based in Redmond. Like the big Apple announcements, we have a general idea of what will be announced. Microsoft has …

I’m sure I might will probably regret or congratulate myself for reporting on this, but we are receiving reports that T-Mobile may be phasing out the Sidekick. I don’t think it has anything to do with those technical problems that went on last October with lost Sidekick data. I think this might be …

Okay, T-Mobile is definitely got to face the music on that whole Sidekick data outage a few weeks ago. So how do they make up for it? By giving future customers a deal. You should be able to get the 2008 version of the Sidekick for $49.99 less, and the 2009 for …

Although at some point it seemed that T-Mobile and Microsoft will not be able to recover that Sidekick lost data, the two companies figured out a way to recover stuff after all. The first thing to be fully restored is the contacts list of your phone. What you have to do is go to My [...]

Last week we told you that due to server problems, T-Mobile had lost almost all of the personal data stored on Sidekicks everywhere. Today, we have some brighter news whih Microsoft’s Roz Ho tells us about below: We are pleased to report that we have recovered most, if not all, customer data for those  Sidekick [...]

T-Mobile is really interested in making amends with all its subscribers that happen to own a Sidekick. Besides apologizing for the whole lost data problem, the carrier will offer a full month of data service. What do you think? Is that good enough for you? I will assume you answered “No!” to that question …