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There was a webpage for managing emails too. There are now better mail message systems but the Sidekick's was fast and efficient. This worked when upgrading to a new model as well.Įmail - although originally it was just POP (later Danger introduced IMAP) you could put three accounts in one mailbox and it worked really nicely - at the time. The good thing about this is that if your Sidekick was lost or stolen, you could just get another one, enter your account information and all your data would come down to your new Sidekick. This is how Paris Hilton's pictures/contacts famously got spread.

No guessing or autofill, you could turn out a message in a few seconds without a second thought.Ĭalendar and Contact syncing - one of the truly revolutionary (and controversial) aspects of the Sidekick was that it forced users to upload their contact and calendar information to Tmobile's servers where they could also view/use it in a webpage. SMS - with the great QWERTY keyboard, this was an effective means of communications. They later added support for Yahoo and MSN IMs. To this day, no other phone including the iPhone is as effective at AIM as the Sidekick was. The original OS had some great functionality, but a few things set it apart from anything that had been done before.ĪIM - this was the first phone that did Instant Messaging well (and had push messages!).

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The first thing everyone noticed about the Sidekick is the way the screen flipped up to reveal the best keyboard made on any phone (to this day, I am still faster on Sidekick keyboards than I am on any other devices except - maybe - a full computer keyboard). Eventually the guru at the shop said to me, 'Give up on that thing and get a Sidekick.

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I had been testing a Tmobile Windows CE device at the time and kept having to take it back to the shop. But the first minute I got my Sidekick, I knew I had something very special.

Some crazy WAP phones without much direction from Nokia.

Windows Mobile phones that were almost unusable and required a stylus to make a call.

Treos which were good organizers but painful on the Internet.

Early Blackberries that barely did anything beyond email.

The only other smart devices back then were: It was 2003 when I got my Color Sidekick (the Black and White one debuted a year earlier). In fact, I'd venture to say that the Sidekick was the first real smartphone ever made. My first smartphone was a Tmobile Sidekick. Google, in turn, made Rubin the Director of Mobile Platforms. Rubin later formed Android, which was then bought by Google. They created an entirely new platform and with the help of Tmobile, revolutionized the way phones worked.

The Sidekick came out of the efforts of a few ex-Apple Engineers, Andy Rubin, Joe Britt, and Matt Hershenson, who started Danger in 2000. Perhaps this switchover was part of the reason for the outage?īut really, the Sidekick was already dead, Microsoft was just the latest to put a nail in its coffin. Microsoft may or may not launch the Pink line of smartphones which are based on the same Sharp hardware and will supposedly replace the Sidekick in the near future. This incident effectively marks the end of the line for one of the most important devices in gadget history. All models are now showing ' temporarily out of stock' on the company's website.Īdditionally, a warning has been added to the post on T-Mobile's forum which reads: 'Sidekick customers, during this service disruption, please DO NOT remove your battery, reset your Sidekick, or allow it to lose power.' T-Mobile has halted the sale of new Sidekicks.

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I really hope a lot of Sidekick users used the Intellisync software that pushes data to the desktop and would have backed their data up.

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But customers will be happy to know that Tmobile is offering a free month of data (not a free month of service, just the $20 unlimited data plan) for all of their information.