sidekick 5g 💗

Tmobile please bring back the sidekick you would take over the phone game. All these phones are boring now

Olden134 wrote:

Tmobile please bring back the sidekick you would take over the phone game. All these phones are boring now

Absolutely!  Especially with the revival of physical keyboards being in high demand for devices.

lovewins7 wrote:

I would really LOVE T-MOBILE to bring out a new SIDEKICK💓💓💓 5G💓💓 💓💓for all of there SIDEKICK💓💓💓 fans!

I agree that it wasn’t the same, @tidbits.  I do think it would be possible to recreate the Sidekick home screen and interface with a launcher though or go a little further with a more customized version of Android.  I still have my Sidekick 4G, LX Carbom, and LX Blue.  

Yeah.  The non-US name for the Sidekick's was, HipTop, which was the name they were sold under in Europe, Canada, Australia, and other countries.  The Slide Screen was used on the Samsung Sidekick 4G but I think that patent is actually owned by another company unless Samsung acquired that.  Looking up patents is so tedious.  All of the Sidekick's I had before that were made by Sharp but there were other variants that were made by different manufacturers.  I never found another device with a keyboard like the keyboards used on the Sharp devices.  I could walk and text without even needing to look at the device.  

I never used an LG Wing.  I think I tried a Palm device once but it kept dialing my friend in Australia at strange hours of the night when it was charging.  I hated the Blackberry keyboards!  

I don't think I could use something like the Wing.  The Pre has the same style of keys that I didn't like about the Blackberry.  The keys are stacked and not offset.  On the Sidekicks, they were basically a mini version of a PC keyboard, that make them very easy for me to mash out texts without a glance.  I have a cousin that swore by BBM until switching to an iPhone after RIM shutdown.  One of the main issues I have with services like BBM, iMessage, and RCS is that they are dependent on data where SMS is not.  There are a lot of things that were ahead of their time in the cellphone world that hopefully will return some day.  For me, ti's the physical keyboard that was just unbeatable.  I wasn't fast enough to win a texting contest but I remember T-Mobile used to put this annoying popup about sending more than 500 texts a day for a while, which was to surpass for me in half a day with a Sidekick.  

New sidekick would be nice

syaoran wrote:

I agree that it wasn’t the same, @tidbits.  I do think it would be possible to recreate the Sidekick home screen and interface with a launcher though or go a little further with a more customized version of Android.  I still have my Sidekick 4G, LX Carbom, and LX Blue.  

They'd need MS to be on board with it since it is proprietary to them.  If they made it look similar it's a lawsuit potentially to happen.  I honestly wished MS didn't buy them.  As soon as I saw the news the sidekicks were dead.  the Android version was just a weak attempt due to MS owning everything.

There isn't a phone alive that would make me switch from Apple, not the razr, the z flip, or the fold. But if they brought back that sidekick, I'm paying off my iPhone today, and getting the sidekick ASAP. It is the one phone I'd ditch Apple for.  Imagine how incredible it would be in 2024. All the greatness of the flip and keyboard but also with incredible apps and internet. 

T- mobile without the Sidekick is nothing!!!!!!!!!! Love wins!