T-Mobile Color Sidekick Phone (T-Mobile)

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Summary: Help
Review: I was looking to purchase one of these phone and i know they can be unlocked and used with at&t but i was wondering if all of the features would work like the internet and aim and aol and such some one please respond to me

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Summary: Question
Review: I am very interested in the Sidekick II. Does it have the capability to write a word document or only view one as an attachment to an email?

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Summary: Overall, satisfied
Review: I have had various models of this phone for two years, and have gotten countless compliments on it. I like this phone because it is so unique, and built nearly exclusively to what I like to have: internet, camera, AOL messenger, clock and alarm, etc. The only thing unreliable about the phone is the cool but unstable scroll wheel. On the three phones I have had, two have had to be replaced because the scroll wheel completely stopped functioning. I also know someone else who had to get a replacement because her scroll wheel broke, so it isn't just my luck. Overall, neat and functional and fun phone you are bound to get comments on.

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Summary: Tmobile Color Sidekick: The only one doing it right.
Review: Long entry but bear with me. Someone has got to layout how this device rocks. . .

Preface: the longer I use this device, the more I am convinced that this may be the only PDA do-it-all product that was thoroughly thought through, and extensively tested in some small town until everything made highly capable intuitive sense.

THE ONLY CONS: (1)The phone quality is not the best, but only drops out when I'm driving out of range. In other words, if you have a signal you are not likely to lose it if you are just standing there or walking around. (2)The item is subject to needing replacement. In a little over 2 years I've had 2 b/w sideKicks, and 2 color sideKicks. On the flipside, Tmobile is very cool about replacing them, and has a seamless process. OK onto the good stuff . . .

***Yes, it's shaped like a bar of soap. A rounded bar of soap. If you want a landscape oriented display (that spring-load flips up), and landscape oriented keyboard (repeatedly-mentioned best in numerous PC magazines), what shape should the device end up having? It's one word ergonomic.

------------THE WIRELESS BROWSE ANYWHERE CAPABILITY ROCKS ---------------
No, you don't need to be near a wireless hub at a Starbuck's. I browse the web riding in my car (as a passenger only, heh).
*** It downloads at about dial-up speed (it's that or wait till you get home to look something up (lame)) It might take a minute to download a page (full real Amazon.com page), but so what? Set to vibrate when the page finishes and you pick it back up off the table (or belt holster) when it is done. ZZZTT! Voila! It rocks.
***Listening to the radio (no not on the sideKick) you hear a product or person mentioned, google it and get to see exactly who or what they are talking about. It rocks.
***It formats regular web pages almost seamlessly, no need to go to special mobile or wireless friendly website versions. Settle arguments with friends about statistics or word definitions, on the spot, sometimes inside of a minute.(What's the speed of sound? 761.18 MPH) It rocks.
***A conversation turns to weather as we are walking down the street; I give them the projected 5-day forecast for our vacation spot 800 miles away. It rocks.
***Compare the prices with Froogle online as you walk around in a Best Buy. You get the idea. And the idea rocks.
***You're fooling around on the sideKick and you find a really cool obscure web page with a giant URL address? No problem. Email it to your desktop email account (or anyone else's) in (I am not kidding) under 3 seconds, without even switching to the email app. Just type the first 2 letters of email address, or the person's name choose one of the few matches with the scroll wheel, hit 'send' and it pops you right back to browsing. It rocks. (Isolating who to email on a Handspring Treo is far more involved. I own one from work. It does not rock)
----------NOW ONTO LESS WEB-BROWSING RELATED FEATURES---------
***If I want to say:
"By the way, where are you scheduled to be today and tomorrow? I arrived in Lombard office at about 8 o'clock."
I just type:
"btw, wr r u scdd 2b td n tm q i ard in lm at ab 8 oc."
Seem convoluted? No because these are abbreviations I decided on out of necessity so they are second nature. I wish Windows had that, I type like a breeze on this thing.
***Someone emails a URL to you on your sideKick. No need to cut and paste. Any URL's (or email addresses) mentioned in an email will also appear as a clickable button at the bottom of the email, which automatically opens your web browser (or email app). Like the website? Save it in any folder you created in your favorites onboard your sideKick, or email to any desktop email acct. to see it on a regular monitor.
***On a PC I log into my Tmobile acct and send an email to my sideKick, and it arrives in about 30 seconds.
***This device could operate as the only phone in my house, the only PDA I carry and only email account that I own. If I lived alone in an apartment I would do that. I have 2 other email accts (aol and sbc) but don't really need them. The sideKick opens several file attachment formats (Word, Text, XL, .jpg, .bmp, .wav) itself and the few it doesn't (acrobat, QuickTime) you'd simply go to your home desktop (Yes, you still need that. No, it doesn't replace broadband, a monitor or a printer but its close.(why print a MapQuest when you can drop the directions in an email, and the map as a bitmap to your sideKick?)
***Everything sync's to your Tmobile acct. server, almost immediately no cradles, no cables. NOTE: You can clean out your email, add a calendar date, delete a to do list item, modify one of your notes and delete a photo ALL FROM A PC AT HOME WHILE YOUR SIDEKICK IS IN TOLEDO --OR-- ON YOUR SIDEKICK WHILE RIDING A BUS TO TOLEDO. I kid you not While at a PC, I have taken a picture of my son with the sideKick and hit refresh on the web page and it was there on my monitor in approximately 10 seconds. Another time, I was on a PC and needed a note on my sideKick, which was out in the car on a rainy day. Hmm. Too lazy. I just logged into the sideKick on the web and got the note. This thing rocks.
*** What few things you cannot view on your synced up web page are still backed up to your SIM. In other words, if I toss my sideKick under a Mac truck, I can still view everything I have on my account online, and attributes I don't view online (little things like auto text settings, sound profiles) will still be transferred to a new SIM ID and be downloadable to a replacement phone. Handspring Treo's policy of losing everything you have accumulated since your last sync up if the battery dies is simply laughable.
***The list goes on and on. The aol IM works as well as my home PC's. Its got games.
Sorry about the LONG entry, but this list has been a LONG time coming considering the sideKick is about 3 times cooler than I'd hoped, and keeps getting cooler.


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Summary: this phone is not great, however it is not that bad.
Review: I have this phone for under a year, i lie the phone, i don't really go online that much with it, however when i do go online i find it to be very fast.I don't like the fact that my stored numbers are no longer store, once my battery goes dead. maybe I am not storing it correctly. Overall I really do like this phone. when I am out and using the phone I get alot of people looking, they like the look of the phone and the fuctions it offers.

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Summary: This device is excellent.
Review: All of you people who gave this product a negative review, you deserve what you got. Before you went ahead and purchased the device, all you needed to do is find a TMobile store that has a display/demo model and check it out for yourself. You would have then been able to decide whether or not it's too big, cumbersome, etc. I asked tons of questions before I purchased it and tried a demo at a store. I knew from advance that the phone function isn't the greatest but the email, browser, and AOL IM functions more than made up for it. I went ahead and bought it and I'm VERY happy with it. The navigation concept, keyboard functions/shortcuts, etc are second to none. Don't expect any device to be perfect and don't whine like a spoiled brat.

While reading the negative reviews, I was shaking my head the whole time at the idiotic excuses presented by some of the reviewers. Again, if you're savvy enough to want such a device, you should have been smart enough to ask the right questions, check out a demo model, and make the right decision before you buy.

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Summary: Jack of all trades... master of none.
Review: A great concept: phone, email client, calendar, notes and other stuff... it is too bad that it is plagued with poor phone service (making it downright NECESSARY to have a good headset to speak to and hear your calls)... You find you are limited in the browsing on the web for lack of java, media playing capability (a shame, because many sites utilize some form of those capabilites!)... as far as photographing with the (sold separately!) camera accessory, you have to be really careful lest you get the dreaded "Camera Not Detected" message even though it is clearly plugged into the device! (thank goodness Danger has integrated the camera into the new (expensive) Sidekick 2 design... The fact that you have to download simple applications (a clock, for instance.)when other phones have this INCLUDED (especially for a premium-level data device) is ludacris!... Bottom line, if you want to get your unlimited BASIC email and BASIC web surfing on the fly for only around $20-$29 a month, good. Phone? Choose something ELSE!!!

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Summary: Not at all worth it
Review: The T-Mobile sidekick is not worth the money or the time. The phone service for this phone is the worst I have ever had. Most of the time when I go to use the phone there is no service and while I am in the middle of a conversation the calls are dropped or fail. Now I am have problems with the screen. It freezes up or turns off completely. I would not reccommend any one to by this phone. It barely works and I am stuck paying the bill every month.