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T-Mobile Sidekick sales resume: new pricing, new wary customers

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 17th 2009 No Comments

T-Mobile USA have announced that they've once again started selling Sidekick handsets, having taken the messaging-centric devices off the market during significant data outages last month. Both the Sidekick LX 2009 and the Sidekick 2008 will be available, each with new pricing: $149.99 for the former and $49.99 for the latter, assuming a new, two-year agreement.

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T-Mobile sending $100 gift card to Sidekick data-loss victims

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Oct 13th 2009 1 Comment

After admitting that they could have lost every scrap of Sidekick users’ online data, T-Mobile USA are now following up on their promise of “additional measures” to make it up to affected customers. The carrier is now more hopeful of restoring lost data than it was at the weekend – when it described the likelihood of recovery as “extremely low” – but any user facing a loss will automatically get a $100 T-Mobile gift card.

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Sidekick users face irretrievable data loss; Inept backup policy blamed

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 12th 2009 No Comments

It’s been a weekend of pain for Sidekick owners, with last week’s data outage ironically only the first step in an escalating catalog of mis-management by Microsoft, T-Mobile USA and the Danger team. On Saturday, an official statement was posted to the T-Mobile Sidekick forum, advising users that personal data stored on their servers and not on the handset itself “has almost certainly been lost”, together with the ominous advice that Sidekick handsets shouldn’t be turned off, run down or reset.

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Check out the official statement after the cut

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Sidekick LX 2009 OTA update set to fix buggy devices

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 2nd 2009 1 Comment

Got a Sidekick LX 2009? Find it crashes, freezes, locks-up and generally misbehaves? Salvation could well be at hand, as a rumored OTA (over-the-air) update is in the offing; according to Hiptop3's sources, the new firmware is currently being trialled by a small group of beta-testers, before the code is released to LX 2009 owners en masse.

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Phone Roundup: New BlackBerry Storm 2 images, iPhone rumors, SideKick LX on T-Mobile and more

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, May 14th 2009 No Comments

Another day, another phone roundup, so let’s dive right into it, shall we? First up, is the latest in the land of the iPhone. It seems a new rumor is floating around about an iPhone with a unibody and one with nano-like color options, which we’re pretty excited about if it turns out to be true at WWDC09 this year.

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T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009 on sale: $250

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, May 13th 2009 No Comments

T-Mobile have released the Sidekick LX 2009, the latest version of the popular messaging handset. The first of the range to support 3G, as we found in our review the Sidekick LX 2009 offers an incredible screen, GPS and a decent nod toward the latest social networking fashions with MySpace, Facebook and Twitter clients.

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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 19 2009

By Chris Davies on Sunday, May 10th 2009 No Comments

We’ve had some much-anticipated and long-awaited gadgets land at SlashGear this week, so we’ve gone overboard with unboxing videos and hands-on galleries. The Verizon MiFi 2200 only had its official announcement earlier this week, but we’ve been waiting for the Novatel EVDO-hotspot for so long you must forgive us some excitement. Meanwhile the Vodafone HTC Magic has the honor of being only the second Android phone to the market, while the Tonium Pacemaker manages to offer something unique in a sea of PMPs.

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T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009 review

By Chris Davies on Friday, May 8th 2009 No Comments

Talk about messaging phones and you’ll inevitably get to the Sidekick. T-Mobile’s screen-flipping feature-phone has a history of offering smartphone style push email, web access and social networking with a straightforward UI; now there’s a new addition to the family tree, in the shape of the Sidekick LX 2009. The simple name-change over last year’s model hides a number of improvements, however, not least a stunning display, 3G and GPS. Are they enough to maintain the Sidekick reputation, or has the feature-phone crown been snatched away? SlashGear set to finding out.

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T-Mobile 3G Sidekick clears FCC: Sidekick LX 2009?

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Apr 9th 2009 No Comments

A new Sidekick has been passed by the FCC, using T-Mobile USA’s AWS 3G bands. Although there’s no confirmation on which device it is – the product name is PV300 – the expectation is that this is the Sidekick LX 2009 (aka Sidekick 2009).

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Sidekick LX 2009 appears in T-Mobile inventory

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Apr 8th 2009 No Comments

After showing up on a list of imminent T-Mobile USA handsets, the Sidekick LX 2009 has made another appearance. This time the 3G messaging handset is listed – in two color versions, ”carbon” and “orchid” - in T-Mobile’s own inventory system.

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