http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/ Engadget Comments for Sidekick III shows up on the FCC http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/What a dissapointment. I mean, this phone has featues that are getting very old. No wifi? No 2MP camera? No video playback? Ouch! ]]>Apr 22nd 2006 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/
sorry need awash cloh ive had asn sidekick since the bw version 1st hit n im more excited athan ever]]>Apr 22nd 2006 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/:]]]>Apr 22nd 2006 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Wow where have you been. The treo will eat the sidekick alive. You probably should do your home work on the smart phones before blab. I have sent email on my treo while listening to pocket tunes. Oh right now I'm streaming music from my home pc to my treo using Ptunes and gloonet. The bottom line is this: the treo gives you more options than the sidekick. And, this new version of the sidekick does not look like it will be able to compete with the treo. Any worthy phone should be able to play mp3s, send emails, take photos, have bluetooth, play video, and should have some sort memory card slot. Go through that list and tell me how much of that the sidekick has. The treo has all of that. ]]>Apr 22nd 2006 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/MP3 - Even 64 MB with a removable media slot will suffice. I don't expect my phone to replace my mp3 player
Bluetooth - As much as those ear pieces kinda annoy me,to be cutting edge in cell phones, you gotta have BT.
Camera - It needs to be better quality, even 1.3 would be fine, Video would be a plus but not necessary
Web browser - It is a great web browser but there are some features i wish they would add, namely allow you to zoom in on a photo on a website. I would love to read Penny arcade and actually read a map on my phone.
And if they could add swf/flash support. I want to kill time watching stupid flash cartoons on my phone.]]>Apr 22nd 2006 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/
Wow you're on the little bus. If you actually read the posts you would see that for the most part I am talking about the features a phone should have. And if you are going to shell $400 bucks and not have these features you have proven my point. The thing is, that just about all age groups will want to have some sort of multimedia experience on thier phone. The sidekick does not look like it will be able to satisfy all of the demands of its users. Oh and I will playing snes, nes and genisis roms on my treo what about your sidekick.]]>Apr 22nd 2006 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/
Iggy :) ]]>Apr 22nd 2006 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/
cliff ya missing the point of his statement
treos WM5 and palm devices are geared towards buiness users....the SK line of devices is geared towards general users...2 different markets... the average user of an SK is under 25 while i think treo is between 30-40... thats y its not gonna have all the office essentials in it cause it doesnt need it...its gonna have the basics just like da BWSK, the CSK, and the SK2but the give u the basics in a form and price and size and most of all a USER FRIENDLY device...im not gonna bash WM Blackberry and Palm based devices but many former SK users who try 2 get there 'fix' on these devices normally return to the SK i did after 3 months on a blackberry]]>Apr 22nd 2006 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/
BT
EDGE
MiniSD
all confermed

n the browser thing can b fixed with an OTA
my main wish is that Danger will open up the software more so the SK can build up a larger catalog of software not just ringtones and games]]>Apr 22nd 2006 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/
I love Symbian Smartphones.

I've got a Sidekick Color, a Sidekick 2, a Pocket PC Phone, an N-Gage QD, a Nokia 3300, and a Siemens CF62T (NOTE: I've never done anything beyond a phone call on the SK2 since it's actually a friends phone I'm borrowing). I love them all, but I use the N-Gage. I've got several reasons for that, but here's what I'd point out to everyone.

1) The N-Gage has bluetooth, while the others don't. Despite what many people think, bluetooth rocks the house, period. If for nothing else, I can control my music (on windows OR linux) with it via Bemused, and I can beam files stored on my 512MB MMC card to whatever I need to, wirelessly. In fact, I use bluetooth to network not just my phone, but also to network my laptop to my linux storage server. PAN is the greatest.

2) SymbianOS is the standard. I know most of the sidekick users here will kill me for saying this, but I'll say it anyway: the proprietary (sorry for spelling there) OS on the Sidekick sucks. You can't upload or download whatever you want, and making applications for it is impossible - unless you can get a deal with T-Mobile to distribute it, you can't. Worse still, it can't recieve files via MMS/SMS or even install programs through the browser. My N-Gage does all of that.

3) N-Gage Arena. I inly play about 4 or 5 actual games on my N-Gage, but there's nothing on earth quite like playing Red Faction on a cell phone against some guy from china or finland or india. Internet gaming is the future, agreed, but with an N-Gage, worldwide doesn't require a power outlet and a TV to plug up.

4) Range of applications. Right now my N-Gage has everything you've all mentioned, but here's a short list with less than half of what's on it: WAP Browser, HTML Browser, Opera Mini, eMail, 3 IM clients, 2 SSH Clients, 3 VNC Clients, 16 Games (I only play 4 or 5 - any lemonade tycoon fans out there?), 3 Filesystem browsers, Call Blacklist (I get no telemarketers), 7 Media Players (3 Audio, 4 Video), Weather Viewer, PDF Viewer, QuickOffice, and CellTrack (can be used to triangulate yourself, good if ya get kidnapped).

That's about a third of them, plus I've got 2 hours of music and a 2 hour movie (the replacements - the only file on here I paid for) and still have 180MB+ empty on the MMC card. Can somebody show me a Sidekick doing all that? Didn't think so.

5) Wanna waste money? Buy a camera phone! Eight studies now show that less than 4% of people with a camera phone have taken any more than a test picture. I'm proud to be in the 96% majority on that one. Nuff said.

6) It's not square. Several of you mentioned that the Tero is somehow the official phone of "old farts" but I can happily say it's not. It's the official phone of people who give over 400 bucks for a phone that has PalmOS and/or Windows on it. The Treo is a good phone (between a Sidekick and the Treo I'd pick the Treo, though I might pick a Sidekick 2 first, not sure) but it is what it is, and it's a PDA. It's not really a phone. It's merely a PDA with phone call capability. That puts it one step above the original Sidekick though, because it was a dog turd with a cool multicolor wheel and phone capability. Still, the N-Gage just has a cooler shape.

7) Don't forget the QD part. Many people ask me if I have to hold my N-Gage QD sideways. I tell them no. Because I don't. The sideways speaker of the original N-Gage is fixed on the QD - it's now placed on the front. In addition, the QD has a faster processor, more internal memory, and best of all, it looks more badass. That, and it plays games better too. Of course, even if it had the sideways speaker, why wouldn't I just use a bluetooth headset?

That's why I love my N-Gage. Please mail any complaints about my post to your@butt.com. Thank you.]]>Apr 22nd 2006 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/
Bluetooth
minisd- which most likely means video/mp3 support
1.3 megapixel- which is an obvious upgrade from the last camera

and why in the hell would you compare a treo to a sidekick they are for 2 different markets. treos are for business users and sidekicks are for the younger set who like to im/ text message and show off at the same time.]]>Apr 22nd 2006 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Yes, its annoying that all the software is proprietary, but the sidekick has the most comforable keyboard.
I thought about switching to a MDA... but have held off thus far.]]>Apr 22nd 2006 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/

"1.3 mp" camera


yay!!!!!]]>Apr 22nd 2006 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/
my reply is simple, "No, its the side kick killah!"

ditch the kiddie phone and get with the adults.]]>Apr 22nd 2006 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Enjoy that bluetooth headset that you have hanging around your ear! Dork!]]>Apr 22nd 2006 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://mobilehipster.com/t-mobile-news/video-on-the-sk3-t-mobile-set-to-release-first-widespread-us-umts-network
that video wont be supported at this time as Tmo's EDGE network is not fast enough for video. So it looks like, "possibly", that the miniSD will be for audio use and storage. Given that, I would probably say that the resolution will be the same as the old Sidekick II as well. Helps keep cost down. All in all this comment is speculation on my part. It's possible that video can be taken with the 1.3m pixel camera. wait and see, wait and see.]]>Apr 22nd 2006 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/
http://t-mobile.com/shop/Phones/Detail.aspx?tp=tb1&device=8802ddeb-1ee4-477a-9608-d9cd1e2a903f]]>Apr 22nd 2006 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/
As a new york city subway rider, we have to put up with the occasional idiot kid blasting regaetton from their nextel/sidekick (ringtone), no matter how crappy the speaker is. If this thing can play MP3s, it will become the new boombox - no train car will ever be safe. F*cking sidekick, I've been riding around here for years and the ONLY people who have them are kids and dumbasses.

Here's the proof: when an ENORMOUS data breach occurred with Paris Hilton's Sidekick (all notes, contacts, pictures were leaked were leaked to the net), sidekick sales went UP!]]>Apr 22nd 2006 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/
http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/01/paris-hiltons-hacked-sidekick-means-higher-sales-for-t-mobile/]]>Apr 22nd 2006 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/
I'm sorry to hear about your gripe. I laugh 'cause, well, I help to put
those ringtones on those nextels you're talkin about and I know that
website for music for the sidekick, being a native of new york, I have
the whole picture in my head of seeing these youngsters loudly excited
about their day and showing off their new sounds. Let me be of aid to
you by saying that those model phones weren't made for playing music and
so don't have the type of headphone jacks needed to listen to music.
With mp3s in mind with the Sk3, perhaps, headphones will be implemented.
Then again, to be cool with their peers, they just won't use the
headsets. Dang, I guess I wasn't much help. ;-)]]>Apr 22nd 2006 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 22nd 2006 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/This looks so great, I have wanted a Sidekick for a while now and I finally can get one!]]>Apr 22nd 2006 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/
It's not the features - the MDA has all the same one's that will be part of the new Sidekick - the problem is the phone is a pain to use, easy to drop, low on battery life, and the internet browser does not work as well as the SideKick's did.

When you add the BlueTooth, Memory cards, 1.3 MegaPixel camara - you'll probably end up with a much more useable device than the TMobile MDA.

I will say that I'm getting to like the MDA more, now that I'm easing into useing it and taking videos, stuff like that. But I would not even bother to try to listen to Podcasts on it...I'd eat up too much battery power doing that. Even when you don't do much of anything, your power can drain down pretty quickly with this phone.

My reccomendation - if you have a SideKick II, wait till the SideKick III comes out - don't get the MDA as you'll end up doing the same thing I'm going to do...switch back to the SideKick III.]]>Apr 22nd 2006 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 23rd 2006 12:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/BTW Cliff probably drives a Prius and is probably wearing his BT headset while reading this comment. Also, I predict you'll talk about the good ol days at Northwestern or Berkley 20 years after you've graduated. Ya Loser! ]]>Apr 23rd 2006 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 23rd 2006 1:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/
However I do have a number of problems with the Sidekick in that it is T-mobile only so there isn't a high speed broadband network available for the device. I can't add a lot of the cool applications to the device that I would on a Windows Mobile or even Palm device. I would like to add applications like the Sling Media player (to watch TV) and Skype to my Sidekick, but this is simply not possible because of the T-mobile limitations and because of the locked down nature of Danger's OS. Hopefully I will at least be able to access music and video through ORB.com on the new Sidekick, but I question whether that will be possible with the proprietary web browser that the Sidekick has.

I think HTC is kind of like the old Dell or "beige box" of the smart phone industry and unfortunately they don't really seem to get it. The sidekick is not perfect and I think other companies could do far better (maybe they can't because of patent issues), but as an all in one phone I think the Sidekick line is unfortunately the best that's available. I really wish HTC could put out a hardware device that was on par with the Sidekick (5-line spacious keyboard, ambient light detecting screen visible in direct sunlight, long battery life, scroll wheel for web browsing and navigation, and in a pocketable size).]]>Apr 23rd 2006 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 23rd 2006 2:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 23rd 2006 3:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/22/sidekick-iii-shows-up-on-the-fcc/Apr 23rd 2006 8:39AM