T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009 and 2008: Sales Resume

T-Mobile has announced that they have resumed sales of their Sidekick LX 2009 handset once again, hoping that customers forget the now infamous data outage that occured at the start of October. Read more

T-Mobile customer figures on the decline

It seems as if T-Mobile have been going through what can only be described as a ‘rough patch’. Recently, we had the Sidekick data crisis, followed by a fresh outage a few days ago, now their Q3 numbers have been released - and it isn’t pretty. Read more

T-Mobile Outage 2009: T-Mobile confirms service is down

Just when you thought T-Mobile were back up and running after the Sidekick Data disaster, it has been confirmed that a new nationwide outage has been affecting customer’s service all around the world. Read more

T-Mobile Sidekick: Contact Recovery Instructions

October has been a bad month for T-Mobile, and an equally bad month for T-Mobile Sidekick owners, however it seems as if the ongoing T-Mobile Sidekick saga is coming to an end. Read more

Data Loss Week: T-Mobile/Sidekick and Snow Leopard

When we go back over a few of our recent articles, there seems to be a pattern forming. That pattern would be Data Loss, which we will now call Data Loss Week. The two biggest data loss cases were the T-Mobile Sidekick and Snow Leopard issues. Read more

Microsoft Sidekick Data Loss: Crucial need for phone backups

We have an interesting article for you to read now, which debates whether or not customers should continue to trust cloud services to store their data. This is obviously in relation to the T-Mobile Sidekick data fiasco where customers had their entire services down for more than 2 weeks, with data only starting to be recovered this week. Read more

T-Mobile Sidekick Data: Is your service back to normal?

Following on from our earlier story, in which we told you that Microsoft had managed to recover lost data for Sidekick customers, we would like to know how many of you have already had your service restored to normal.

As most of you will be well aware, entire data services were down except for making calls and sending/receiving texts. Affected services included address books, email and Instant Messaging.

We had asked you if your contacts had returned yesterday, but now that Microsoft have made a statement today, full service should now be starting to return to customers.

Let us know what the current status with your Sidekick is.

T-Mobile Sidekick Outage: Microsoft recovers data

It looks as if the T-Mobile Sidekick data saga might be finally coming to an end, since Microsoft have now stated that they have managed to recover ‘most’ if not ‘all’ of customers Sidekick data. Read more

T-Mobile Sidekick: Is Your Contact Data Back?

Yesterday we posted an article regarding the ongoing T-Mobile Sidekick saga, in this post we discussed the fact that there was a chance that some users data may be recoverable, contrary to original beliefs that all of the data was permanently lost. Read more

T-Mobile Sidekick Outage: Data could be recovered - Microsoft

More on the T-Mobile / Microsoft Sidekick data fiasco now, as Microsoft have made another statement on the issue, this time saying that they might be able to recover some of the lost data which was previously thought to be ‘gone forever’. Read more

T-Mobile Sending Sidekick Victims $100 Gift Cards

Yesterday we heard that T-Mobile were halting sales of all of their Sidekick handsets following all of the recent news surrounding data loss, however now we are hearing of a way in which T-Mobile are trying to make it up to affected customers. Read more

T-Mobile Sidekick: Sales Halted

Following all of the bad press T-Mobile have received regarding the “Sidekick Outage” T-Mobile have now decided to halt sales of all versions of their Sidekick, currently on T-Mobile’s website all models are “Temporarily Out of Stock”. Read more

Snow Leopard ‘Guest Bug’: Has your user data been deleted?

October must be the month where user’s data being deleted is perfectly acceptable, after we have just heard news that Snow Leopard users are having their files erased due to a new ‘guest account’ bug. Read more

T-Mobile Sidekick Outage: Windows Mobile 6.5 could suffer

Following the huge T-Mobile outage which has severely affected Sidekick users, we have an article for you to read which suggests that sales for Microsoft’s new Windows Mobile 6.5 platform could suffer as a result of the outage. Read more

T-Mobile Outage in 2009: How did it impact your life?

It has been almost two weeks now since a Microsoft Danger outage has caused the majority of T-Mobile Sidekick users to lose all their data services, such as address books, calendars and other day-to-day essentials. Read more

T-Mobile Sidekick Outage Update: Lost data is gone forever

Well it looks like the T-Mobile Sidekick saga has taken another ‘turn’ for the worse, after T-Mobile have issued a statement saying that lost data could be gone forever as a result of the huge Danger server failure. Read more

T-Mobile Sidekick Outage Update: Full Month Data Credit

T-Mobile must understand the frustration that Sidekick users are feeling following an outage problem, which is why they will credit a full month of data usage for Sidekick users. This will be an automatic process, so no need for users to contact T-Mobile. Read more

T-Mobile Data Outage 2009: Update on Sidekick problem

Yesterday we reported to you about the huge T-Mobile data outage that most of you with a Sidekick handset had been experiencing. We have some more information to give you now, including an update from Microsoft - who are responsible for the Danger servers that went down. Read more

T-Mobile Sidekick Outage: Are you still affected?

It has been reported that there are still a great deal of T-Mobile Sidekick owners who are suffering the effects of a data outage over the weekend, which surely must be a very frustrating experience.

It was only two weeks ago that we reported on a similar outage occuring for BlackBerry users, but it looks as if T-Mobile has jumped on the bandwagon.

Over at BGR, they are stating that T-Mobile Sidekick users are only able to make calls and send texts at the moment, meaning that email, contacts and IM are still unavailable.

Are the problems mentioned above still affecting you in your area? Leave us a comment below.