That said, our teams continue to work around-the-clock in hopes of discovering some way to recover this information. Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger’s latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device – such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos – that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger.
We appreciate your patience as Microsoft/Danger continues to work on maintaining platform stability, and restoring all services for our Sidekick customers. T-Mobile and the Sidekick data services provider, Danger, a subsidiary of Microsoft, are reaching out to express our apologies regarding the recent Sidekick data service disruption.
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Update:: There is some speculation that this was not actually caused by a server meltdown, but by Danger’s failure to make a backup before a Storage Area Network upgrade that was botched. Microsoft acquired Danger for $500 million in February 2008. The fact that T-Mobile and/or Microsoft Danger don’t have a redundant backup is simply inexcusable, especially given the fact that the Sidekick is totally reliant on the cloud because it doesn’t store its data locally. This goes beyond FAIL, face-palm, or any of the other internet memes we’ve come to associate with incompetence. T-Mobile Sidekick users have been suffering from a major outage all week, and that issue apparently hasn’t been resolved either.
Apparently if you don’t turn off your Sidekick and make sure its battery doesn’t run out you can salvage what’s currently stored on the device, otherwise you’re out of luck: Microsoft/Danger is describing the likelihood of recovering the data from their servers as “extremely low”. That means that any contacts, photos, calendars, or to-do lists that haven’t been locally backed up are gone. T-Mobile and Danger, the Microsoft-owned subsidiary that makes the Sidekick, has just announced that they’ve likely lost all user data that was being stored on Microsoft’s servers due to a server failure. This April Fool's day joke was cute for T-Mobile, though it has us wishing there really was a T-Mobile Sidekick reboot after the Samsung-made and Android-powered Sidekick 4G from 2011.Wow. It can’t do any of the smart features, though, as they’re regular ol’ sneaks. You can actually purchase the T-Mobile Sidekicks (which are magenta hi-top Converse-lookalikes with the words “T-Mobile Sidekicks” on them) for $65 before April 15. There’s even a “Hey Sidekicks” voice assistant, which features the soothing voice of T-Mobile’s own CEO, John Legere.Īmong some other features, the Smartshoephone is entirely fictional as this is T-Mobile’s April Fool’s day joke. The T-Mobile sidekicks also have a display that takes up the entire bottom of the sole of one shoe while the other features “Sole speakers” and retractable Smart Laces that double as earbuds. The kicks will also light up when you receive an incoming call and the lights will flash like the Sidekick 3’s scroll ball did. Share your contact information quickly by tapping toes with another Sidekicks owner. T-Mobile’s Smartshoephone features a flip-out screen like the Sidekick, only it pops out of the side of the sole. Seeing really is believing with the new T-Mobile Sidekick. As fun as they are functional, T-Mobile Sidekicks are fully tricked out for speed on the fastest LTE network ever and optimized for unlimited data with T-Mobile ONE, of course. Today, T-Mobile introduces the world’s first Smartshoephone™: T-Mobile Sidekicks. It was an iconic smartphone that had several celebrity endorsements, a screen that flipped out in a really cool 180-degree motion, and its operating system would eventually evolve into what we know today as Android. The T-Mobile Sidekick is getting reincarnated in the carrier’s latest announcement.
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