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Activision Prepares Skylanders Sidekick and Frito-Lay Promotion

Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has filed a trademark application for a new spin-off for its popular Skylanders franchise, called Sidekick, which will apparently be launched during June. The company is partnering up with Frito-Lay in order to promote the Sidekick line of toys, with customers able to redeem ...

25 April 2012
13:21 GMT

T-Mobile Kills Sidekick 4G, Lets the Sidekick Name Live

Wireless services provider T-Mobile has officially confirmed plans to discontinue the Sidekick 4G smartphone that landed on its airwaves less than a year ago. Launched in April last year, the mobile phone was meant to provide Sidekick users with the possibility to switch to a device that packed similar looks and c...

16 March 2012
14:11 GMT

Next Sidekick Phone to Come from Sharp

Following the release of a Sidekick handset from Samsung, T-Mobile USA is reportedly getting ready for the launch of a new such phone, this time made by Sharp. The Samsung-built Sidekick 4G, which landed on shelves at the wireless carrier a few months ago, was meant to keep the series alive, and it seems that the op...

2 June 2011
16:51 GMT

T-Mobile Sidekick 4G only $79.99 at Wirefly

Today, mobile phone carrier T-Mobile USA made available for purchase on its airwaves a new Android-based smartphone, the T-Mobile Sidekick 4G, the latest addition to the operator's Sidekick family of devices. The wireless services provider started selling the new smartphone for $99 on a new two-year contract on...

20 April 2011
13:41 GMT

T-Mobile Sidekick 4G Now Available

The Sidekick lineup at T-Mobile USA is not dead yet, even if it seemed so a few months ago, and today's launch of the new T-Mobile Sidekick 4G, the Android-based device from Samsung is a proof of that. Although the wireless carrier announced a few months ago that the Sidekick services behind its devices will ...

20 April 2011
06:41 GMT

T-Mobile Sidekick 4G Lands on April 20th

Wireless carrier T-Mobile has just confirmed the release date for one of the most appealing Android-based smartphones it would bring to the market during the first half of the ongoing year, namely the T-Mobile Sidekick 4G.Following various rumors regarding the official availability of this device, the carrier has fi...

7 April 2011
15:21 GMT

T-Mobile Sidekick Users Have 50% Off Samsung Phones Until April 19th

Mobile phone carrier T-Mobile is determined to offer its Sidekick users the possibility to move to another device before the Danger service behind the entire Sidekick story is shut down on May 31st.The wireless carrier already announced that it would put in place some special offerings for Sidekick users, so as to e...

10 March 2011
11:31 GMT

Existing Sidekicks Die Today, T-Mobile Announces

Another day, another sad story for enthusiasts. Following the announcement regarding the death of Microsoft's KIN project, which would be integrated into the upcoming Windows Phone 7, wireless carrier T-Mobile has decided to end the life of two popular devices currently offered to its users. Effective today, th...

2 July 2010
02:56 GMT

Microsoft Pink Phones to Make Their Debut on April 12

Microsoft has yet to confirm any details officially, but the company did send out invitations to an event scheduled for April 12th, 2010, noting that, “It’s time to share.” The Redmond company’s timing for sharing coincides with the launch of Visual Studio 2010, .Net Framework 4 and Silverligh...

6 April 2010
11:06 GMT

T-Mobile Enables More Sidekick Data Restoration

T-Mobile Sidekick users were plagued a while ago with a serious service outage, which resulted for some of them in losing a great deal of personal data, including contacts, calendar entries, to do list and notes. T-Mobile and Microsoft, the company in charge with the Sidekick service through its subsidiary Danger, an...

12 November 2009
09:07 GMT

Sidekick Users Can Now Restore Contacts

Software giant Microsoft announced on Monday that Sidekick users who lost data during the recent server outage should be able to start restoring their contacts as soon as this week, and today it has announced that the process has already been started. Sidekick users can now restore contacts to their devices, this bei...

20 October 2009
09:51 GMT

Microsoft Says Sidekick Data Restoration Starts This Week

The Sidekick data loss / recovery issue will still have to wait for a few more days before everything is put back in order. Redmond-based software company Microsoft (which acquired Danger, the company in charge with the Sidekick data, last year) announced on Sunday that users might see their data restored this week. ...

19 October 2009
03:26 GMT

Microsoft Says Sidekick Data Has Been Recovered

Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has addressed a new statement release to T-Mobile Sidekick users, announcing them that it managed to recovered the data lost during the recent outage. According to the company, it has managed to recover almost all of the lost data, if not all of it, which means that users affect...

15 October 2009
06:36 GMT

Sidekick Data Loss Issue Taken to Court

The Sidekick data loss issue that made the headlines during the past few days has been brought to court by Sidekick customer Maureen Thompson from Atlanta, who filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and T-Mobile on the account that these companies failed to securely and automatically back up users' data, although the...

15 October 2009
04:23 GMT

Microsoft on Sidekick Outage: We're Working on Recovering Data

T-Mobile Sidekick users have been going through a rough period lately, as the Danger Services they were relying on were interrupted on Friday, October 2, and latest reports suggest that it is possible for some of them to never recover the personal files stored in the cloud and lost during the outage. T-mobile has alr...

14 October 2009
02:39 GMT

T-Mobile on Sidekick Disaster: Recovery Might Be Possible

Wireless carrier T-Mobile issued on Monday yet another statement regarding the Sidekick data loss issue. According to the company, there are chances that users' data will be restored, and the damage caused by the server failure is not as big as originally believed. The service has been already restored, the mobi...

13 October 2009
03:12 GMT

T-Mobile Loses Sidekick Users' Data, Pulls Devices from Sale

T-Mobile Sidekick users out there seem to be some of the most unhappy mobile phone users in the world. A server error has led to Sidekick data service disruption for the past few days, but that is the least of their worries. According to a recent statement from T-mobile, in which it apologizes for the inconveniences ...

12 October 2009
09:24 GMT

T-Mobile Preps a Press Event on April 21

It seems that T-Mobile is preparing a surprise for us on April 21 in New York City, as the company is reported to have announced a press event for that date, though it hasn't disclosed any further details on what will be presented on the occasion. However, rumor has it that the fourth largest wireless carrier in...

10 April 2009
08:39 GMT

T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009 Specs Surface

T-Mobile was reported a while ago to be prepping new Sidekicks to be launched this year, and now we've got a few more details on one of said devices. We are talking about a so-called Sidekick LX 2009, which was supposedly codenamed Blade internally, yet it is uncertain whether this is the same model or not. Th...

2 February 2009
02:40 GMT

Microsoft Spells Danger for the New T-Mobile Sidekick

Microsoft spells Danger for the new T-Mobile Sidekick. The Redmond company is applauding the addition of a "soul" to T-Mobile's handset, with the solutions developed by Danger, a company the software giant acquired in mid-April 2008. According to Microsoft, the software and services from Danger, included in the ...

31 July 2008
12:26 GMT

Sidekick LX Tony Hawk Fully Released

The Sidekick LX Tony Hawk Limited Edition is now offered by T-Mobile for everyone (everyone in the US, that is), after the handset was released, last week, only for users who were already T-Mo's customers. Well, now you can get a Tony Hawked handset even if you are new to T-Mobile. The new Sidekick LX can be bou...

18 July 2008
04:39 GMT

Sidekick LX Gets a Special Tony Hawk Edition

T-Mobile USA will soon offer a new edition of its popular Sidekick LX handset, specially created for all the fans of Tony Hawk, as well as for all those who like skateboarding. Or, if the first two cases don't apply, for all those who simply want a different-looking Sidekick LX, be it with Tony Hawk's name ...

5 June 2008
07:58 GMT

Nokia's New Patent Looks So Sidekick-Like

Nokia finally got the hint that Sidekicks are hot and looking great and thought that they would look even better with their logo on. The Finnish handset producer forwarded a patent for a device that looks incredibly similar to the handsets that became highly popular in the US.It's all about the large side slidin...

21 November 2007
07:02 GMT

Motorola Sidekick Slide Has Problems with Sliding

First problems with the recently released Sidekick Slide have just appeared, making it look pretty bad, especially if we think that fans looked forward to owning one for a great deal of time. A large number of such devices have been returned to stores and replaced.The problem with Motorola's Sidekick Slide is th...

14 November 2007
05:26 GMT

Sidekick LX Launches on October 24th

An advertising flyer recently spotted indicates the launch of the Sidekick LX on October 24. This comes after recent rumors taunted a possible release for the next Sidekick in the near future, at T-Mobile, with solid reasons to support this possibility.The card clearly announces as a sure thing Sidekick LX's arr...

21 September 2007
04:56 GMT

Sidekick 4 Heading Towards T-Mobile in October

Rumors on the awaited release of the Sidekick 4 have been going by for some time now. The latest one concerns a potential release of the device on the 16th of October, during a special event, although there is no official announcement on this possibility so far.It all started from the information that DJ AM is hostin...

18 September 2007
04:36 GMT

New Spy Shot of Sharp Sidekick LX Shuriken

About a month ago, Sharp Sidekick LX Shuriken was FCC approved. No information on a future release for this handset has appeared since then. The device has made an appearance, although still a low ground one, in a new spy shot. Sharp Sidekick LX Shuriken is supposed to be the fourth such device from the series of suc...

4 September 2007
09:58 GMT

Sidekick LX Gets FCC Approval

It looks like the Sidekick LX, also known as Danger Shuriken, has been spotted on FCC's website. The product has received approval for being sold on the US grounds, which gives hopes for a future release.Sidekick 2 had the name of PV100, while Sidekick 3 was called PV150. FCC has approved the PV250 model, which ...

7 August 2007
05:13 GMT

Details on Motorola Zante, the Shiny Sidekick

Some new information on Motorola Q900 or Zante has been revealed, letting people know just what they should expect from this device and when exactly that will happen. The phone has high chances of turning out to be serious competition to the Sidekick phone model which has managed to reach great success among people i...

5 July 2007
02:59 GMT


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