The Sidekick!!

pablocrego · ‎04-10-2008

I never owned a Sidekick,I know is a T-mobile exclusive,but I've been always curious about having one.I really like how it looks and Im a message person.I wonder if any of you had one,to have some feedback about it. Some thoughts?

jii · ‎11-12-2007

most of its features will not work on at&t's network, in case youre thinking of getting one.

hidden_dragon · ‎04-05-2004

Accessing the internet will be problematic, but if you plan on just using it as a phone and/or text messaging device, it should be fine. However, on a side note, phone reception at certain locations may be spotty since T-Mo doesn't use the 850 mhz band.

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pablocrego · ‎04-10-2008

You cannot use MediaNet ? Is there a way that ATT identifies the sidekick and block medianet surfing?

Is the sidekick build with 1900mhz only? Thanks for your responses

hidden_dragon · ‎04-05-2004

pablocrego wrote:
You cannot use MediaNet ? Is there a way that ATT identifies the sidekick and block medianet surfing?
Is the sidekick build with 1900mhz only? Thanks for your responses

The Sidekick is a pure T-Mo device. With their software on the phone, one cannot change the internet settings so it can be used on another network. The Sidekick natively supports the 850 band, but T-Mo removes the functionality of this unused band -- thereby only enabling the band that will work on their network.

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pablocrego · ‎04-10-2008

I believe its not worth having it if you are not on T-Mo,its useless not using it with all its capabilities.

dmapr · ‎02-04-2004

hidden_dragon wrote:

The Sidekick is a pure T-Mo device. With their software on the phone, one cannot change the internet settings so it can be used on another network. The Sidekick natively supports the 850 band, but T-Mo removes the functionality of this unused band -- thereby only enabling the band that will work on their network.

So the Sidekicks won't even work in the areas where T-Mobile has 850MHz roaming? I know T-Mobile has stopped suppressing the 850MHz band on their normal phones a while ago when they started getting the 850MHz roaming agreements in place, I thought that also applied to the Sidekick. It obviously doesn't change the fact that the internet settings are hard-wired.

hidden_dragon · ‎04-05-2004

dmapr wrote:

hidden_dragon wrote:

The Sidekick is a pure T-Mo device. With their software on the phone, one cannot change the internet settings so it can be used on another network. The Sidekick natively supports the 850 band, but T-Mo removes the functionality of this unused band -- thereby only enabling the band that will work on their network.
So the Sidekicks won't even work in the areas where T-Mobile has 850MHz roaming? I know T-Mobile has stopped suppressing the 850MHz band on their normal phones a while ago when they started getting the 850MHz roaming agreements in place, I thought that also applied to the Sidekick. It obviously doesn't change the fact that the internet settings are hard-wired.

The Sidekick 3 has been discontinued for quite some time. I have known ATT users who use them but have horrible reception. T-Mo has 850 mhz roaming agreements but they are far and few.

It's too bad the Ogo forum was removed...most of those users migrated to Sidekick devices and so they could be more helpful in providing info. on these. Oh well...

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dmapr · ‎02-04-2004

hidden_dragon wrote:

The Sidekick 3 has been discontinued for quite some time. I have known ATT users who use them but have horrible reception. T-Mo has 850 mhz roaming agreements but they are far and few.

It's too bad the Ogo forum was removed...most of those users migrated to Sidekick devices and so they could be more helpful in providing info. on these. Oh well...

I agree with your sentiment

Any way, Sidekick was built primarily for data — I had a friend with one and she said the voice quality was very poor even with a strong signal, and as you pointed out the data is all proprietary and won't work on AT&T network anyway. There ought to be SMS-only devices better suited for AT&T network than the Sidekick

hidden_dragon · ‎04-05-2004

dmapr wrote:

hidden_dragon wrote:

The Sidekick 3 has been discontinued for quite some time. I have known ATT users who use them but have horrible reception. T-Mo has 850 mhz roaming agreements but they are far and few.

It's too bad the Ogo forum was removed...most of those users migrated to Sidekick devices and so they could be more helpful in providing info. on these. Oh well...
I agree with your sentiment Any way, Sidekick was built primarily for data — I had a friend with one and she said the voice quality was very poor even with a strong signal, and as you pointed out the data is all proprietary and won't work on AT&T network anyway. There ought to be SMS-only devices better suited for AT&T network than the Sidekick

Agreed. Whatever happened to the Ogo 2? Guess it never made it out of Europe...

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dmapr · ‎02-04-2004

hidden_dragon wrote:

Agreed. Whatever happened to the Ogo 2? Guess it never made it out of Europe...

I guess not — AT&T is not interested in this type of devices and T-Mobile has Sidekick...

Jwild · ‎06-17-2008

check out the NEW ATT QUICKFIRE!!! qwerty but better than sidekick

scooterjes · ‎02-10-2006

Couldn't like most phones the sidekick be flashed back to a manufactures software and enable the locked out band. I know I have reflashed my phone and it is a major improvement over the ATT software.

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pablocrego · ‎04-10-2008

where is that QUICKFIRE? Couldn't find it in ATT phones list.

hidden_dragon · ‎04-05-2004

pablocrego wrote:
where is that QUICKFIRE? Couldn't find it in ATT phones list.

That's because it hasn't come out yet.

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DakotaC · ‎10-10-2008

The main problem with the Sidekick isn't just on T-Mobile's side, but Danger's side as well.

All data sent from a Sidekick is routed through the Danger/T-Mobile servers to optimize it for the phone. Web, MMS, AIM, and so on.

Theoretically even if data worked on a Sidekick, you'd somehow have to get it to authenticate to the Danger/T-Mo servers, which I highly doubt could happen. And the server specs aren't really out there from what I've seen - so there'd be no way of running your own server.