Finally went to AT&T to play with an iPhone. NOt a bad looking device. The keyboard sucked. It's still Sidekick 3 for life cuz, and I promise to bang no other. If the iPhone had IM in the beginning, I would have stood in line. No copy and paste/IM makes this photo viewer/ipod/slow iBrowser an expensive wannabe smartphone.
Here is the stupid part, some of you will take Apple's side when they put iChat on the iPhone, like Apple did us a favor. No, Apple is BOWING to a need that is missing and should have been installed on day one. Bitches
The Sidekick is, and always has been, a piece of crap. I know several people who have them, and they've all had problems with failing controls, software glitches, and the clunky and confusing interface. The only reason this device is popular is that T-Mobile managed to get high-profile airheads like Paris Hilton to use them in public.
Sorry, this isn't true. Adults (i.e. sysadmins) use the sidekick also, mainly because it has a real qwerty kb, an SSH client, 3 IM clients, and an overall poor but usable web browser. Also the 'unlimited' data plan on the sidekick is actually unlimited, it includes all web, text messaging, IM and email you can do for $30. As soon as the $60 iPhone data plan does that, we can talk, maybe.
Sure, many idiots got an SK because some famous idiot like Paris Hilton had one, but it's actually a quasi-useful phone.
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Finally went to AT&T to play with an iPhone. NOt a bad looking device. The keyboard sucked. It's still Sidekick 3 for life cuz, and I promise to bang no other. If the iPhone had IM in the beginning, I would have stood in line. No copy and paste/IM makes this photo viewer/ipod/slow iBrowser an expensive wannabe smartphone.
Here is the stupid part, some of you will take Apple's side when they put iChat on the iPhone, like Apple did us a favor. No, Apple is BOWING to a need that is missing and should have been installed on day one. Bitches
The Sidekick is, and always has been, a piece of crap. I know several people who have them, and they've all had problems with failing controls, software glitches, and the clunky and confusing interface. The only reason this device is popular is that T-Mobile managed to get high-profile airheads like Paris Hilton to use them in public.
@wombat
Sorry, this isn't true. Adults (i.e. sysadmins) use the sidekick also, mainly because it has a real qwerty kb, an SSH client, 3 IM clients, and an overall poor but usable web browser. Also the 'unlimited' data plan on the sidekick is actually unlimited, it includes all web, text messaging, IM and email you can do for $30. As soon as the $60 iPhone data plan does that, we can talk, maybe.
Sure, many idiots got an SK because some famous idiot like Paris Hilton had one, but it's actually a quasi-useful phone.