
We're no QA experts here, but if your product is called the "Slide," isn't the slide mechanism the
one thing you'd test the dickens out of? Alas, folks are discovering that Motorola's
Sidekick Slide for T-Mobile has shipped with a devil of a flaw: actuating the display's slide periodically causes the phone to spontaneously reboot or to simply turn off and stay off. We've tested the claim on our own Slide, and yeah, it happens. Granted, it only happened twice out of thirty or so slides of the screen, but by standards of modern electronics engineering, we're pretty sure that's two times too many. As Boy Genius Report points out, to make matters even worse the power cycle is a hard reset, meaning your data's kaput unless you're within range of a T-Mobile signal to download everything from Danger's servers again. An ever-so-slightly loose battery seems to be the culprit here, but seriously, Moto, how did this defect ever leave a factory floor en masse?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Cing Emp @ Nov 13th 2007 4:02PM
NO NO NO surprise...after the debacle of V3 issues ive seen working for cingular/att...Motorola hasnt put out a good device since the startac..the Q9 may be the best moto phone...but its the ONLY decent MOTO phone...Moto needs to get sued bigtime for their countless careless releases..V551 charger issues/battery issues RAZR reboot/poor service/bad speaker V3xx crappy speaker/reception..the list goes on and on and on and on...
New New @ Nov 13th 2007 5:31PM
Hmm..to me this is really interesting because my phone has been rebooting itself outta nowhere,but its not because of the sliding,i dont think,but now im going to watch out for it!
Celine @ Nov 15th 2007 12:14AM
BAAH i have the sidekick slide; just got it two days ago.
& YES it does turn off when you slide it down. sometimes, even when you slide up.
its weird, 'cause when it turns back on, its like a computer. you have to wait a while to start using it.
maang it was a waste of money.