2.12.2008

Sidekick in danger? because SK no longer in Danger?

Confusing title?
Confusing words?
or just plain confused?

I think i falled into group #3. Well, I'm not so much confused but moreso a little upset at what happened.

Microsoft buys Danger.

aka the company Danger, aka maker of the Hiptop, aka maker of the Sidekick.

Now, I'm no Applewhore or anything like that, but I had had my own personal qualms with Microsoft, whether it's about the Xbox, about HD-DVD, the lag on phones with their software on it, the fact that Vista isn't that great. Needless to say, I have been leaning more towards moving to Apple products, or I guess, just moving away from MS.

So I think its kinda funny that this was written, a short three weeks ago. To quote:


Who knows, maybe one day I'll go back to the SK (SK4, you BETTER be an upgrade), cuz I played around with the LX, which is definitely sleeker, screen is bigger, but pretty much the exact same phone. If they can make the SK4 more like a standard OS, instead of its tried-and-true-yet-old-and-constricting OS, i might come back.. when's that due date again?


I guess its a classic example of 'be careful what you wish for.' So this basically means that Windows Mobile WILL be on the next edition of the Sidekick, and that the SK is going to probably sync up more with MS products, like the Zune, like Windows Live Messenger, blah blah blah.


With T-Mobile's deal with Danger expiring this December, we've probably seen the last T-Mo exclusive SK in the LX and Slide. And with MS most likely to whore itself out to any mobile provider with money to offer, we can pretty much expect to see a version of the hiptop on AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, erybody. OK, so it was never a 'status symbol' or a 'fashionable item' or whatever, but havin a SK was pretty cool when no one else had one.


I'm just imagining MS pimping this thing out like it was the end of the month and the SK came up short in payments. They saw how much success the iPhone had, and realized that they would never be able to come up with a status phone like that on their own, so what do they do? Just buy the closest thing to it.


I hope I eat my words when the SK4 does come out, but as of right now, it looks like I'll be getting an iPhone2 instead.


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1.22.2008

I Rolls Dolo Pt. II (The T-Mo Era)

So this post has been put off for the last 3+ months, but I was reviewing my blog (after changing the template up again), and decided to actually finish this post.

4.) AT&T Wireless - Ericsson T60
703-623-9854


Wow. It actually took a minute to find a picture of this phone. I don't really remember the reasons why I bought this one. There was nothing really special about it, except that it had a joystick instead of a d-pad (which NO ONE else had at the time) It didn't do nothing special no ringtones, no nothing, one game (brick), but it was still a good phone. The lack of functionality and customization seriously paralyzed this experience tho.


4.5) AT&T Wireless/Suncom - Ericsson T68


I never actually had this phone, but I'm including it anyways cuz i was sizing this phone up for so long. It was the first GSM phone I wanted (after the switch from TDMA), it was a COLOR screen, which was amazing. I was about to switch to Suncom because they were about to offer the phone. It was basically my old phone, but with a color screen. I'm kinda happy I didn't end up getting this one though, it looks a littly fruity now.


5.) T-Mobile - Nokia 3650
757.553-6300

The switch to T-Mo. AT&T's plans were jus so sh*tty that I couldn't stay with them any longer, and VZW was just waay too exp. So I went ahead and tried out the newbie in the group. and got me a 757 number officially making me Norfolk. I was gonna get a flip phone, cuz i really wanted one, but all of them were so wack. I ended up getting this one for pretty cheap, and WOW. Circular keyboard, first phone wit a camera (for me), video, mp3's, and a WORLD of customization. This was probably my favorite phone that I ever had in all truthfulness. It lagged at times, and I bricked one of them by putting like 15 after market applications on it at once, but damn.. this was a great phone. And the circular keypad? I still think I can text just as fast on this that I can on a keyboard.

6.) T-Mobile - Sidekick II
I got it right before Xmas 2004. The Nokia had done alot, but I really wanted this one. It jus looked too tight, it had a full keyboard, a camera, and that's all I really needed to know before diving into this one. I had so many facecovers on this one, I almost forgot what it looked like without one.




7.) T-Mobile - Motorola Unlocked SLVR L9

I really don't know what it was about this phone that made me want it so bad. I had never used one, I didn't like RAZR's, I never even saw it in real life. I read about all the customization features, I wanted to go back to life without a keyboard, and I bit the bullet. I used it for like a month before I realized that this really wasn't a phone I could use day in day out. Oh well, at least its unlocked, so I can use it anywhere.



8.) T-Mobile - Sidekick 3
I just had to go back. I don't even know why I didn't upgrade to it after the SK2 in the first place. I wanted to be different and wound up being so dissatisfied. Even though sidekicks are a pain in the ass to customize, they are just a few steps away from being a really great phone. This one wasn't the lightyear jump that the SK2 was to the original, but there were still sum good upgrades.
Click on the link at the top for the beginning and the conclusion (BB Curve) to this post.
Overall, I like my BB, it defintiely has its advantages. Who knows, maybe one day I'll go back to the SK (SK4, you BETTER be an upgrade), cuz I played around with the LX, which is definitely sleeker, screen is bigger, but pretty much the exact same phone. If they can make the SK4 more like a standard OS, instead of its tried-and-true-yet-old-and-constricting OS, i might come back.. when's that due date again?

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10.03.2007

I Rolls Dolo Pt. 1 (Carrier Neutral)

so after...

3 years...
52,500 minutes...
38,500 texts...
500,000+ flips...

not including that fling i had with the SLVR, i am officially sidekick-less.

it wasnt that i couldnt stand the phone (like i hear many former SK users say), and it wasnt that i was pissed that you couldn't do more...

but i wanted more.

and really.. there was no one better to turn to.. or should i say Curve to than...


so now i'm part of the BB family. is it any more fitting that Big Boi got a BlackBerry?

i really made this decision in the span of about 2 days. for a while i was thinkin about upgradin to the Sidekick LX, but all it is is a slightly larger screen and thinner device. GREAT.

is that really worth a 1 year ext and $400?

It's been 2 days that i've had this phone now and im still pretty much clueless as to all its capabilities and what i can do with it.

It does have alot more expandibility than the sidekick, more functionality, -worse keyboard (im sure it just takes some getting used to), not to mention the fact that I had to downgrade my plan to keep it at the same price because the BB unlimited data plan dont come wit texts. but oh well. i dont have to worry about constant SK freezing anymore, not being able to get calls, not worrying if my "G" will come back on soon or whether I'll be stuck on 2 dots forever .

It's just simple math really.. here's how it breaks down:

i dont know if you can really see all the things there, and i really dont feel like resizing the image any better, but its comparing a Sk3, BB, and SK-LX. You can pretty much judge it by the amount of check marks. haha. so needless to say, minus that little month and half or so at the end of last year ( a weird period in my life where I actually found myself really wanting a SLVR, getting it, then realizing that I really didnt want anything to do with the phone) , i'm without a sidekick.

so now that im writing this, im trying to think of my progression of cell phones since i started.. a visual history.





1.) Bell Atlantic Mobile (now VZW)- Nokia 2110
703-967-2564 (?)



- my very first phone ever. it definitely wasnt the coolest phone, but it was pretty cool that I could make a call anywhere I wanted.

didnt really think much about it. i dont even really remember what my plan was, momz paid for it. i think i went a good 9 months with this phone.





2.) Sprint Wireless - Samsung SGH-500
703-855-4812




- i really thought i was the shit with this phone. a tight flip phone, MY first real phone (that first nokia was my moms that she jus dumped onto me). had it at the very end of senior year (all mah friends was jealous) and it was also the first phone that I had in Norfolk. Maybe a blessing in disguise that I lost it one day running from Webb to BAL. I realized in class I didnt have it but had to wait thru the entire class to retrace my steps and try and find it. needless to say, it was nowhere.






3.) AT&T Wireless - Nokia 8210
703-623-9854




I had this phone for a minute.. prolly around 2 years. i went thru all sorts of different phases wit this phone. i was the first to have music ringtones on my phone (Darude - Sandstrom) in the monobit sound. haha. i had the matrix slide faceplate on it. had the flashing blue lights, it had it all. What with all the customization, the phone ended up dying, but i really did ALOT with this phone, it was great while it lasted, but all good things do come to an end.








Coming Soon.. The End of my days with AT&T, and The T-Mobile Era..

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