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Summary: the good and bad of it
Review: The good: its just plain fun; the phone works great for me and reception/clarity has been fine (much better than my previous phone even though its bulky compared to other phones); I love the text/tmail/email/internet access - It turns out I use this more than the phone. Network has been pretty good. Has gone down only a handful of times in the 3 months I've had it.
The bad: Had it only 3 months and the back light (I have a color sidekick) stopped working properly. Customer service was prompt and pleasant but I got the replacement yesterday and it was clearly a refurbished device (looked more beat up than my "new" one) and had a WOBBLY SCREEN! So I sent it back - customer service had no problem with this but explained that replacements could be used/refurbished devices. By the way, the guys at the storefront basically said moving parts break (I guess once they have your money they just don't care)!
So: I'm giving the sidekick 3 stars (it would have been 4 stars = fun and meets my specific needs) because of replacement issue (I know of others who had to replace e.g., wheel breaking).
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Summary: Gets attention wherever it goes
Review: I got this as a Christmas gift for my teenager and the Sidekick gets oohs and aahs wherever it goes. Noone can believe all the things it can do. Everyone else in our household covets it. We all sneak and use it when we can. It keeps our teenager happy on visits to Grandma when she can IM her friends and on the school bus when she can talk or IM. I'm pretty bad with technology but I had the Sidekick working in minutes and was checking my ebay bids in no time. The internet works well. The sites look just like they do on a big PC. Sometimes the connection is slow but I'm spoiled by a cable modem. No slower than dial-up. The voice mail is easy to use as is the email. The game is cool. The ringtones are cool. What can I say --the Sidekick is the coolest.
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Summary: GREATEST PHONE EVER
Review: This phone is the greatest thing that I have ever purchased. There is no better phone on the market right now. No other phone can even compete with it. I even bought the samsung E715 which was about $320 when i bought it, but then i realized there is only so much you can do with it. I mean, how many pictures can you really take without getting bored. Which is exaclty what happened to me. I got bored of it and gave it to my sister so that i could begin using my Sidekick again. I recommend this phone to anyone. Spend a little extra and get this great phone. You wont be disappointed.
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Summary: ...love the handheld, but the service is...
Review: I just bought the Sidekick a few days ago and I was very excited to see what it could do. I heard a lot of good things from friends and family about its capabilities, so I decided to give it a try. I own a cellular phone with another provider and I'm happy with their service so I only got the data option on the Sidekick. The concept on the handheld is great. You can surf the web, chat on AIM, send and receive e-mail, create to-do lists, and a host of other options. However, I was not satisfied with the T-Mobile service. Four minutes into any conversation I was having on AIM, my connection would get lost, leaving me to sign on again and again. Signing back on was no piece of cake, either. This process was very inconsistent. At times it would take a matter of seconds to get back on AIM. At others, I got frustrated looking at the "connecting" signal move back and forth and simply stopped trying. The internet browser was the same. I wasn't expecting much in terms of speed because it is a handheld, but once again, I found myself frustrated each time the connection was lost-and that happened frequently. I am definitely going to take advantage of T-Mobile's 14 day trial offer. I love the handheld, but the service is terrible.
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Summary: Awesome device
Review: I got this Sidekick when it first came out onto the market. Not having heard of T-Mobile (who the hell were these guys??) it took me a couple weeks to ponder getting it. Reasons are: Needed qwerty keyboard for quick typing, needed instant email, not pop3, needed AOL Instant Messaging, and cell phone. Other reason is, I'm hard of hearing and the majority of my friends are deaf and thus, I would approximate that 75% of the people that I know, have a Sidekick. It's our cell-fone for the deaf since we can't hear squat, so we use Instant Messaging instead, and it's worked wonders, and Danger Inc. was actually surprised that the deaf community gobbled these Sidekicks up and became a "surprise" market. Most of them use Data only plan for 29.99 a month.. I use fone too, so that's a little extra. Downside is, the architecture of the device could be improved as I've heard stories from everywhere that they've had to replace the device at one time or another.. Even mine right now, the wheel sunk into the device and thus is inoperable.. oh well. And, it gets boring fast.
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Summary: Pretty Darn Good
Review: I have had this Sidekick for 14 months. Overall, it is very good unit. When people ask, I generally say that it is a mediocre phone but that the wide range of additional features make up for its limitations. I have gotten used to holding its odd shape up to my ear and generally keep all of the numbers that I need loaded into the address book (having to dial manually is a pain, as is probably the most glaring deficiency as a phone). For data services though, it rocks. The kybd is better than any other on the market. The web browser is very functional. AIM & email are excellent. The address book (with quick links to email, phone, website and SMS) are really great. Perfection in a next gen version would mean (a) more local storage, (b) MP3 compatibility, (c) MS Exchange compatibility and (d) Bluetooth.
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Summary: abdu
Review: I wont to burchase this mobile , Can you sendit to my Address in K,S,A ?
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Summary: Sidekick is good, but it's not working good..
Review: I like T-Mobile..But Tmobile have the cool gadget, but bad customer service..Sidekick is good for deaf people to use it..But it's not working good..Some people accidently break their tmobile celluar phone or sidekick..They call tmobile..Most of time, tmobile not conercrate what people say..they just aware about it..I felt it's not fair..My parent bought me a sprite celluar phone..Now my cell phone not break down since last March.. My opinpon that Sprite or Verizon or ATT have the best techinogly..If Tmobile improvement their better service customer then i will love to buy sidekick.I wish it happened! Well..i had Coclhear Implant..It's help me to hear lot..
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Summary: cool product, poor T-Mobile customer service, coverage
Review: Bought this thinking it looked like a great gadget -- plus I live in Boston and travel mostly to big cities and thought that the coverage issue wouldn't be a problem. First of all, it is somewhat of a pain to use this device to check my yahoo email. Second, the coverage is surprisingly mediocre: inside a building? Forget it!Finally, the one time I had a customer service issue, T-Mobile was a nightmare. So -- all said and done -- would not recommend this.
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Summary: Too heavy and extremely bad reception.
Review: I own this phone and have came to hate it after a while. Just one month after getting it, the phone malfunction. The display won't flip properly when you open the cover. However, TMobile was quick to get me a replacement. There are a tons of really nice features on this phone. Unlimited data is included, which no other carriers could even come close. You can access emails, AIM, games, web browser (thou somewhat limited), and more impressively, it displays Asian language characters. However, all these features come a a price. The device is HUGE and HEAVY! It seems fun to have it for the first month or so, but after awhile, it became very annoying. Many times, I had to leave this brick at home because it was just too heavy to take it where I need to go. You just can't put it in a shirt pocket or your pants or anything that covers it. Even worse, if you put it in your pants, the phone 80% of the time would not have reception. This is utterly unacceptable. I even tested this problem by bringing another TMobile phone and the other one is showing full strength. And every so often, you will see the phone showing "SIM not ready." You have to turn the thing on and off several times before this problem would be fixed. Each time you do so, it takes a good 2-3 minute. So if you are in an emergency, don't expect this phone save you. I had that happened to me once. I would not recommend this phone to anyone. I would advice to avoid this for now until it becomes much smaller with the reception problem fixed. So if you want a phone to be used only in emergencies, avoid this phone at all cost!!!
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