Microsoft may or may not release the Pink brand of Windows Mobile phones to replace the Sidekick.
#T MOBILE SIDEKICK ANDROID#
(though some think it might be reincarnated as a Google Android device - which isn't that far fetched considering Danger and Android share founders' DNA) I'm not sure if/when they'll start back up again but I'm pretty sure it is over for this "storied" brand. T-Mobile has still not begun sales of the device again. Apple has done us iPhone users a favor and made it much easier to backup than a Sidekick.Īs for the poor Sidekick, the prospects don't look good. It then gets put on a Time Machine disk and sent to an online backup company. My Google Docs are only in the Cloud (yikes!)įor my phone, I use an iPhone which is backed up to my computer when I sync it. My contacts and calendar sync through iCal and Address Book and are then backed up. If I lost my Gmail, I'd be in the same situation as a lot of these Sidekick users. I make copies of my Gmail (through IMAP) all of the time and back it up separately. It also should remind users to backup data whenever possible. Even the big boys like Google and Apple should now open up their data centers. Is there an offsite backup of the database? Has it been checked by a third party? I'd really like to know. Perhaps the good of this incident will be more transparency will be injected into what is happening behind the scenes at Cloud vendors. It also throws some doubt at the prospect of letting Microsoft, or any other provider, store your data in their Cloud. Perhaps they called in the"fixer" team.Īgain, this is a sad ending to the Sidekick device which, from 2003-2006, was as state of the art as a smartphone could be. I'm not sure what changed from the previous press release. While still not great news for Sidekick users, there is now hope to some that there is still a chance to rescue data.
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