If you're a kid stuck in a grown-up's body, there's a good chance you're pining after a
Sidekick -- you know, just like the kind you had back in the day when you listened to Blink 182 and loitered on your skateboard around the plaza in front of the office building that has since enslaved you. Problem is, Sidekicks have never really been work-friendly devices -- owing in part to their utter shunning of Exchange -- which means you get stuck with a
BlackBerry and an incessant desire to swivel the display. It's kind of sad, really, and passers-by think you've gone mad as you sit on the park bench pressing your thumb desperately against a screen that will never, ever rotate, no matter how fricking hard you press. It's cool, though, T-Mobile's got your back: enter Sidekick Sync, an app that was promised when the
Sidekick LX 2009 was launched and is finally available. It'll be hitting the phone's Download Catalog starting this afternoon, offering push email, attachment viewing, calendar and contact sync, and pretty much every other Exchange feature that strips you of your youthful innocence. For the pleasure of avoiding RIM's powerful grasp, you'll pay $4.99 a month -- but can you really put a price on being able to wear DC apparel at the age of 30?
posted Jul 28th 2009 12:54PM
Need reliable e-mail? The only exchange you will want to do is use with your carrier...if its T-Mobile
1) It's about freakin time, I've had this POS for what 3 months now
2) Now that the promise has finally been kept I'm waiting on my MyTouch 3g and that will hopefully have Exchange out of the box.
3) I grew up with Sidekick and I love it, but the damn phone is just never going to grow up fast enough to keep up so it's time to say goodbye to SDK.
When will you grow up and realize that SDK is an acronym for Software Developers Kit and not Sidekick?
MyTouch doesn't have exchange out of the box, either. Though there are some market solutions, it's not native to Android.
Mytouch does have exchange out of the box....I work for T-Mobile. Already have the Mytouch
When i read the title, i thought that you pay $4.99 a month and when (not if) your sidekick breaks, you get a new one. Would be a novel idea considering the sidekick has got to be one of the biggest pieces of crap ever as far as a mobile phone.
Not sure the $4.99/mo. was the best move for this feature. Not when competitors offer exhange as a base feature of the phone. Sidekick apparently is still lagging behind, even when they "catch up." Gotta do better than that.
ahhhh miss my Hiptop (Canadian name for Sidekick) days...flip screen had to be one of the best ideas of all time...if only