Sidekick III product roadmap revealed?
Not sure where it was taken or if this is even legit, but supposedly someone out there sneakily snapped this pic of T-Mobile's Sidekick roadmap, possibly revealing that they're planning to introduce a music-centric Sidekick III in April of next year and a second version with support for UMA (aka Unlicensed Mobile Access, a standard for seamlessly roaming back and forth between GSM cellular and WiFi networks — it sounds like T-Mob might be taking advantage of all their hotspots) in September of 2006, with Sidekick III limited editions to follow a month later (just like how they intro'd two limited edition versions of the Sidekick II last month). The next Sidekick after that, which is supposedly code-named the "Sidekick NG", is listed as being set to drop in June of 2007. The Sidekick NG will supposedly have support for music, video, and UMA, but what's really baffling us is that there's also mention of the word "RAZR" in there. Is Danger fixing to come out with a more RAZR-styled Sidekick? Or is this proof that this is a fake?
[Thanks to everyone who sent this one in]




















Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Keith @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM
Well, that's interesting. A RAZR-styled Sidekick. It has a nice ring to it.
gerald` @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM
I hope the keypad doesn't carry over...
ET @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM
I vote fake. Anyone with MS Project could throw that together in an hour.
Ryan Green @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM
Here's the thing, it isn't even from danger. It's the carrier. They're just doing the same thing as the people on the hiptop.com forums, making a wishlist and hoping that Danger will listen (I really wonder if they can shrink my brickphone into a neo-motorola-q)
Sidekick 3 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM
Where is the cat remote? Shouldn't that be in the plans somewhere? In all honesty I hope that they keep the keyboard layout as that is the reason I have stuck with the sidekickthrough all it's different models. music would be a nice addition, but I wouldn't want to sacrifice any performance just for the ability to listen to a few songs. If music is that important, velcro a shuffle to the back of your sidekick 3
Foof @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM
#3,
Being easily or quickly createable with office productivity software doesn't really go towards telling if a leaked document is real or fake.
I don't know if it's real or fake, but I don't think the document's look really says anything aobut it either way.
SoopahMan @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM
Maybe RAZR's marketingese for "As thin as it gets"
Peter Rojas @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM
For the record, this pic was sent to me yesterday evening by a reader exactly as it was posted.
wayne @ Dec 23rd 2005 3:03AM
I dont see how they can do this with out adding bluetooth to the phone as a main feature