Posts tagged Sidekick
Finally! Sidekick users can restore their data
Oct 20th
Finally a sigh of relief for the Sidekick customers. Microsoft said it would be restoring data for the SideKick users and it has delivered on its promise. Yes Microsoft has initiated the recovery/restorage process that would see SideKick users getting their valuable data back. Microsoft would be carrying out the recovery process in stages. This is the first phase of the content restoration process which will restore personal contacts of the users. The following paragraphs describe how to restore your very own Sidekick data.
Microsoft: Sidekick data restoration is taking too long
Oct 19th
Everybody is aware of the unfortunate outage of Microsoft‘s Danger server that resulted in data loss for T-Mobile Sidekick users. Microsoft made a statement during the last week which was welcomed by the Sidekick users as Microsoft stated that the data recovery for majority of the user was in progress.Yesterday Microsoft posted an update about Sidekick data restoration
T-Mobile still persistent to withold Sidekick sales
Oct 16th
Microsoft may be recovering the Sidekick users’ data but apparently that does not make any differecne to T-Mobile. You might be aware of Microsoft‘s announcement Yesterday regarding the possibility of recovering data for Sidekick users. With that announcement there was a strong possibility of T-Mobile would resume the sales for SideKick but that did not happen. T-Mobile has still put the SideKick sales on hold.
Microsoft recovers data for Sidekick users
Oct 16th
Data Restoration to Begin as Soon as Possible for Affected Customers.
Microsoft has confirmed the data recovery for Sidekick customers whose data was affected by the recent outage. Users’ personal data will be restored as soon as possible, starting with personal contacts. Then other data including calendar, notes, tasks, photographs and high scores, will be restored as quickly as possible. Data loss affected a minority of Sidekick users.
Bing Mobile Application coming very soon
Jun 22nd
Prior to Bing, Microsoft provided search facilities through its search engine named Live Search. Its mobile version was also available for users to use on their mobile phones. The mobile application was titled Live Search Mobile application. The mobile version of Live search provided Voice based and location based search capabilities. Since Bing has replaced Live Search quite successfully (which is safe to say at the current time), there arises a question when will be the Mobile version of Bing become available for use. That is where Long Zheng of istartedsomething comes to the rescue.
According to Long Zheng, the mobile version of Bing is just around the corner and is expected to be released and made available very soon. The mobile edition of Bing is not a mere rebranding of its predecessor Live Search Mobile. The mobile version will be supporting not only Windows Mobile and Blackberry based smartphones, instead the support has been extended to include Sidekick and BREW supported phones. The Bing application for mobile phones is expected to be rolled out in November for all Verizon BREW phones.
Furthermore the service has been extended and expanded to the European Market, with plans of distributing local content to the UK, French and Italian users. Modifications to the design of the applications are also expected. Shown below are a few images which were taken during the late part of April 2009.
A big thanks to Long Zheng for providing us with these cool pics and information.
T-mobile gave tentative release dates for many phones
Apr 6th
Many people are waiting for the goodies that are coming from T-Mobile. T-Mobile has reported some serious information regarding phone release dates through summer. These dates are tentative and subject to change. These fates can change for any number of reasons, but T-Mobile claimed that as of now these dates are correct. Following is the list of the known phones with codenames.
- “Blade” (Sidekick 2009) – May 13
- HTC “Maple”/”Snap” – July 1st (contrary to earlier speculation, this seems to confirm a T-Mobile variant)
- HTC “Rhodium”/Wing II – July 22nd (also known as the Touch Pro 2)
- Sony Ericsson “CS8″ – June 24th (8mp camera)
- Nokia 1661 (prepaid) – April 29th
- Samsung T349 (prepaid) – May 6th
- Samsung T239 (prepaid) – May 13th
- Samsung T559 – July 15th
- Samsung T469 – July 15th (just a simple two-tone gray, apparently)
- Samsung T749 – July 22nd (2 colors for this one: red/orange and two-tone gray)
- Samsung T659 – August 19th
These dates will surely give excitements, disappointments to the T-Mobile lovers.
