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T-Mobile may have just announced that it's shutting down Sidekick service this May for folks who are still kicking along on their old SideKick devices from Danger…but that doesn't mean the end of the SideKick brand. T-Mobile has just formally unveiled its new SideKick 4G, an Android-powered slider phone made by Samsung with a 3.5-inch touchscreen display and T-Mobile's HSPA+ “4G” connectivity that can, in… Read More

T-Mobile has announced that it will be shutting off the Danger Services for T-Mobile Sidekick phones on May 31 of this year. At that point, anyone still using a Sidekick phone will be left twisting in the breeze, although T-Mobile says it plans to roll out unspecified “offers” to existing SideKick customers in the next few weeks to get them to transition to a new device. Without the Danger service, nearly all functions of the… Read More

T-Mobile recently said it would be reintroducing the Sidekick soon, and now TMO News has gotten its hands on images of the upcoming device. After initially receiving what looks like the world’s grainiest photo of a poster announcing the Sidekick’s return (see below), an anonymous source sent in some more revealing looks at the phone. First off, the phone will be manufactured by Samsung, and as we previously reported, will include 4G (HSPA+)… Read More

At a press event this morning, T-Mobile CEO Philipp Humm announced that a 4G Sidekick is on its way. After confirming the Samsung Galaxy S 4G will also hit shelves in the near future, Humm confirmed that “…coming soon, will also be the Sidekick 4G. Everybody knows the Sidekick, and we’re going to relaunch the Sidekick and bring it as a 4G device, Android based, into the market.” The Sidekick line originally launched to instant popularity back in… Read More

T-Mobile USA resumed selling Sidekick phones Tuesday, more than a month after a server meltdown at Microsoft Corp. caused contact numbers, pictures and other personal information to disappear from many of the phones. In the intervening time, Microsoft managed to restore most of the missing user data. T-Mobile provided $100 gift cards to affected customers. The Sidekicks listed on T-Mobile's Web site are now slightly cheaper. For instance,… Read More

T-Mobile Sidekick phones that lost the information stored on them now can at least get the contact lists back. Phone numbers, photos and other personal data started disappearing from Sidekick phones a week and half ago, because of a breakdown of servers run by Microsoft Corp., which owns the Sidekick maker and runs its data services. Now Microsoft has a partial save in this embarrassing mishap. It said Tuesday that Sidekick owners can use a… Read More

There's no doubt that it's been a bad couple weeks for T-Mobile Sidekick users, with Microsoft and T-Mobile announcing earlier this week, after days of spotty service, that personal data stored on the service had “almost certainly” been lost. But now there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel: Microsoft's Roz Ho—formerly head of Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit and now corporate VP for… Read More

In an event that highlights the downsides of so-called “cloud computing,” mobile operator T-Mobile has apparently lost all personal data stored by users of its popular Sidekick mobile communication devices. Sidekick service has been experiencing disruption for days, but, now, according to T-Mobile, Sidekick users can expect their calendar items, to-do lists, contacts, and photos are simply gone. No backup, and almost zero hope of… Read More

  One of the most popular communication devices to date has to be T-Mobile?s Sidekick II. This little gem that is produced by Danger Inc. allows users to access the web, send IMs, talk to people on the phone, and a whole lot more. Furthermore, its status has been elevated by multiple celebrities such as Paris Hilton who swear by the device as a means of escape and constant communication. T-Mobile is getting ready to release the Sidekick 3… Read More