i can type sooo fast with my blackberry pearl that people are often surprised im chatting on a phone. n the pearl is super small compare to the sidekick.
Because it's cheap! Sidekick iD has been hugely popular because of it's sub-$100 pricing. Also T-Mobile has a special data rate for sidekicks with $20 that covers both internet and messaging. The blackberry rate that T-Mobile offers does not include sms/instant messaging and requires extra fee - even though they are still cheaper than ATT, verizon, etc..
Yea the sidekick is the most inexpensive data plan you can get. $20 a month get's you everything, where on verizon you'd have to pay maybe $40 for data and another $20 for sms and im's. Just the choice of getting a sidekick instead of say,a motorolla q, pays for itself in a few months.
I only pay $15 per month with Sprint to get power vision and unlimited texting. $5 less a month PLUS high speed internet. Nevertheless, I have always had a soft spot for the sidekick, and my biggest standing issue (the screen) has now been fixed. Good job T-mobile/Danger!
not to mention who the hell is able to type on the Motorola Q's keyboard. I know that I want an actual QWERTY keyboard and one that i can actualy type on. Sidekick keyboards are much more User friendly than many of the other Smartphone QWERTY keyboards.
I think everyone kind of forgot that the sidekick is huge with the hearing impaired community. Dont quote me, but i think that was actually one of their original target demographics.
you're right. the original demographic of the sidekick was the Deaf community (btw Deaf people don't like to be called "hearing impaired"). They were doing two-way texting YEARS before the hearing world caught on. The Sidekick enabled the Deaf community to communicate much more effectively than the old two way pagers. The sidekick not only provides real EMAIL on the phone (no character limitations), it also provides Deaf people a way to have their TTY phone access on the go. The other area that Deaf people are way ahead of the hearing world is video phones. They all have them now and rarely use TTY anymore. Video phones allows them to call each other directly and talk face to face.... Just a little Deaf education...
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darkstar @ Sep 26th 2007 12:18AM
why do kids like the sidekick???
i can type sooo fast with my blackberry pearl that people are often surprised im chatting on a phone. n the pearl is super small compare to the sidekick.
wslcrew @ Sep 26th 2007 12:31AM
Because it's cheap! Sidekick iD has been hugely popular because of it's sub-$100 pricing. Also T-Mobile has a special data rate for sidekicks with $20 that covers both internet and messaging. The blackberry rate that T-Mobile offers does not include sms/instant messaging and requires extra fee - even though they are still cheaper than ATT, verizon, etc..
darkstar @ Sep 26th 2007 12:38AM
oh. i didnt know. hahaha. sorry.
i work for a mobile phone company. have never even seen a phone bill.
caramelzappa @ Sep 26th 2007 12:54AM
Yea the sidekick is the most inexpensive data plan you can get. $20 a month get's you everything, where on verizon you'd have to pay maybe $40 for data and another $20 for sms and im's. Just the choice of getting a sidekick instead of say,a motorolla q, pays for itself in a few months.
Tim T. @ Sep 27th 2007 3:26AM
I only pay $15 per month with Sprint to get power vision and unlimited texting. $5 less a month PLUS high speed internet. Nevertheless, I have always had a soft spot for the sidekick, and my biggest standing issue (the screen) has now been fixed. Good job T-mobile/Danger!
Nick @ Sep 26th 2007 9:20AM
@caramelzappa
not to mention who the hell is able to type on the Motorola Q's keyboard. I know that I want an actual QWERTY keyboard and one that i can actualy type on. Sidekick keyboards are much more User friendly than many of the other Smartphone QWERTY keyboards.
simon @ Sep 26th 2007 11:18AM
I think everyone kind of forgot that the sidekick is huge with the hearing impaired community. Dont quote me, but i think that was actually one of their original target demographics.
Nick @ Sep 26th 2007 11:24AM
@Simon
now that you mention it I totally forgot about that. When I took an basic sign language course the professor mentioned that. Good Point!
xo @ Sep 29th 2007 11:06PM
haha, i can type 52 wpm on my hiptop/sidekick 3.....
toriesmom @ Nov 13th 2007 8:20PM
you're right. the original demographic of the sidekick was the Deaf community (btw Deaf people don't like to be called "hearing impaired"). They were doing two-way texting YEARS before the hearing world caught on. The Sidekick enabled the Deaf community to communicate much more effectively than the old two way pagers. The sidekick not only provides real EMAIL on the phone (no character limitations), it also provides Deaf people a way to have their TTY phone access on the go. The other area that Deaf people are way ahead of the hearing world is video phones. They all have them now and rarely use TTY anymore. Video phones allows them to call each other directly and talk face to face.... Just a little Deaf education...