If I was going to get that $100, I'd spend on buying T'Mobile's new $50 all-you-can-eat plan + Nokia N900 for a great (at least, for me) experience of Linux on a phone, which can be backed up.easily.
The sidekick allowed use of their intellisync program which was similar to the old palm sync programs to download to Outlook. This enabled Contacts, Todo, Calendar, and that was all. This meant even if you were lucky enough to have synched your information before October 1st 2009, and could afford MS Office's Outlook you could have some of your data backed up. You also could have copied your device storage's photos to your SD card, which I did do, but it was never a published option and there was never an option to backup email ever. I have emails dating back to 2003 when I first signed up for the sidekick which was fortunate because some still have an unlimited $19.95 data plan! ;) My wife and I luckily haven't lost anything and I did sync what i could but other than this outage it was pretty pathetic to be offline for nearly a week. I also haven't recieved anything new to my phone in email since the October 1st. Right now it's a glorified cell phone with a keyboard for SMSing and browsing the web. Not only is the data not all restored, the catalog (read:app store back in the day) is all still offline, and the phone doesn't function as it should and hasn't for 2 weeks!
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Sounds more than fair...
Anything worth more $100 plus a free month should have been backed up on your end, instead of relying on them....
YES. THIS PEOPLE IS TRUTH.
And what way is there to back up stuff from a sidekick ?
Supposedly the Sidekick had no way to do this from what I keep reading. You had to keep syncing to the cloud to get your info.
If I was going to get that $100, I'd spend on buying T'Mobile's new $50 all-you-can-eat plan + Nokia N900 for a great (at least, for me) experience of Linux on a phone, which can be backed up.easily.
The sidekick allowed use of their intellisync program which was similar to the old palm sync programs to download to Outlook. This enabled Contacts, Todo, Calendar, and that was all. This meant even if you were lucky enough to have synched your information before October 1st 2009, and could afford MS Office's Outlook you could have some of your data backed up. You also could have copied your device storage's photos to your SD card, which I did do, but it was never a published option and there was never an option to backup email ever. I have emails dating back to 2003 when I first signed up for the sidekick which was fortunate because some still have an unlimited $19.95 data plan! ;) My wife and I luckily haven't lost anything and I did sync what i could but other than this outage it was pretty pathetic to be offline for nearly a week. I also haven't recieved anything new to my phone in email since the October 1st. Right now it's a glorified cell phone with a keyboard for SMSing and browsing the web. Not only is the data not all restored, the catalog (read:app store back in the day) is all still offline, and the phone doesn't function as it should and hasn't for 2 weeks!