Comments on: Original Sidekick retro phone review [video]

By: Leslie

Leslie — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 05:11:00 +0000

In reply to Cellphone Chris. Oh man this post is life!!! Makes me really miss it! Great post!!!

By: Leslie

Leslie — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 05:07:00 +0000

In reply to charlieboy808. Agreed, the Sidekick had the best keyboard hands down! Although when they put those rubber keys on the XL that was horrible I had to keep getting the keys replaced since they kept rubbing off lol.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 05:05:00 +0000

Wow memories!!!! I had every Sidekick Danger out out, except the Slide! That phone was trash and not a true Sidekick imo.

That said as much as I loved the Sidekick at this point if it was ever relaunched Id probably pass on it. It was cool when I was a teen/young twenties etc. I feel I’ve just outgrown them.

By: charlieboy808

charlieboy808 — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 23:34:00 +0000

Wow… Memories. I had the original Sidekick Color. I bought it off of some kid who’s parent bought it for him. He thought it was too big. So I bought it from him and I was hooked. The keyboard, the ability to be connected to the internet at all times, and at the time Unlimited Data/Texts for just $20. That was basically the only phone then that had it. It was one of the original devices that made “the cloud” make sense. Sure, Blackberry had their own technology but it was Danger that really made “the cloud” make sense.

I had bought every single Sidekick but the original Black and White and the SK:ID. I was very very disappointed when Andy Rubin left as that was the start of the fall to the Sidekick line, but now with all the development in Google’s favor, I can’t complain too much. I just wish someone would bring back the best Keyboard ever made for a mobile device ever. Sure, the last model didn’t “kick” out to the side but the keyboard is what made the device the best to me.

Random memories for me would be my years working at Footlocker back in the day. Usually, in our store no one was allowed to have their phones on them while working. I however was happily carrying my phone around when I found out that we could do catalog orders for people from the website. So I started to have my phone on me at all times. If I couldn’t find a customer a particular phone in our store, I’d look it up on our website. If it was there, I’d put the order in over the phone and they’d pay in store and the shoes would be mailed to their home. Yeah, the boss thought that was genius. Honestly, they could have just put some form of internet in the store to let people order that way too LOL

By: Justin Hamilton

Justin Hamilton — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 16:47:00 +0000

I was a beta tester for the original device, it was a beauty.
After the colour sidekick, my next phone was the G1.
I love the way technology evolves, especially on these devices we use every day.
I never thought I could live without a physical keyboard, now I don’t know if I could live with the added bulk of one.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:27:00 +0000

Cam thanks for all of this nostalgia you’ve just hit me with. So many awesome memories I have with using that device. I really miss my old sidekick it would be awesome if someone brought it back. Samsung tried but it wasn’t the same.

By: Justin Credible

Justin Credible — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 21:09:00 +0000

I used the hiptop 2 on Fido for years (the actual Danger name of the product is hiptop, only T-Mobile re-named it “Sidekick”) and to this day NOTHING compares to the OS and keyboard ease and speed. I miss it! When Fido pulled the plug on bringing the hiptop 3 to market there were a lot of sad Canadians.

By: god

god — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 16:35:00 +0000

God bless the sidekick

By: schweddyballs

schweddyballs — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:44:00 +0000

In reply to Willie D. Lol we have moved on, danger went out of business, samsung all but forgot about the sidekick, what do you mean? The sidekick is dead, no tmo execs care about the sidekick lol

By: schweddyballs

schweddyballs — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:38:00 +0000

In reply to Mark. If its danger OS, it will still talk and text, but data and mms dont work because danger used a platform just like blackberry still does. when they go offline so do their phones. Only the samsung sidekick 4g still uses data and mms on our network