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Motorola CLIQ runs Android, headed to T-Mobile {Engadget}
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Facebook for Android hits the Market, still playing a bit of catch up {Engadget}
Sep 9th 2009 12:24PM Check out that Nesladek guy! WOOT
T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009 review {Engadget Mobile}
May 13th 2009 4:23PM Palo Alto, CA
MSFT had a lovely launch event for the Sidekick 09 today. Complete with Taco Bell bean burritos, a singing clown and a rousing version of the Danger Inc. Corporate Anthem,"My Heart Will Go On."
The event was a success, with all 3 remaining sidekick developers and security detail for each. VP of PMX ,Roz Ho, was quite fetching in her Pink Chanel Blouse and sporting a well-deserved facial. "I hate doing layoffs.It's the worst thing a manager is asked to do. But, Stevie B thanked me for killing the brand and gave me this gift certificate for a facial. He's soooo nice!"
It was a private event, with even recently-let-go sidekick developers not allowed access. "We thought those guys running around would take away from the good-natured fun,"said Ho. Family members were also not invited. "We thought it best to let people know that Microsoft is their new own...er...family,"Ho corrected herself.
Former CEO Henry Nothaft, who was removed from his position by crowbar, was invited to celebrate the last Sidekick by Danger Inc. He was unable to attend due to illness in his horse stables.
-Reuters
T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009 review {Engadget Mobile}
May 8th 2009 7:02PM For Sidekick lovers, rest assured. T-Mobile will continue the line until it fades away. The Sidekick is an OEM branding on a hiptop OS. The new OS is NetBSD and probably performs very well in comparison to any CE product.
Google Android is comprised of old Sidekick engineers and the founder is Andy Rubin. There is nothing that says TMobile has to put the hiptop OS on a Sidekick. Gphones are opensource and can be made to look and perform like a sidekick. They will just have Google apps and better PIM support. So when people moan the demise the sidekick, they are bemoaning the loss of the original developers. The torch has been passed and the sidekick,if predicted to be android powered, will be a lot better.
The current Sidekick was DOA years ago. Top asslicker management and professional parasite CEO Hank Nothaft ran that company like a Jiffy Lube and had no innovative concepts. They stifled innovation to keep the costs down and sold hardware with minimal improvements.
CEO Roz Ho ridiculed TMobile for being the 4th largest carrier in the US. She also mocked them for whining that they would not have an intermediate Sidekick until Google"finished Android." So, Basically, Microsoft was trying to punish TMobile for getting into bed with Google and Android. Why would TMobile want to use Android? Because of the above statements. Management was not innovating the Sidekick and footdragged on every request by TMobile. TMobile is attempting to expand the SK franchise but they could not do it while handcuffed to the current development. It's sad I know, but business as usual. Everyone is to blame. TMobile won in the end and the hiptop lost.
T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009 review {Engadget Mobile}
May 6th 2009 7:12PM There is no Exchange support coming for that particular device and if there was, that's the internal team getting secure IMAP mail from a secure server. The Sidekick engineers, or any other device engineers, are smart enough to access the LIVE search API without getting too many MSFT employees involved- if any-because the Microsoft engineers are as dumb as the day is long. It's just bits coming from a Microsoft server and the device application has to render them. Microsoft just opens the door-they didn't do jack after that.
T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009 review {Engadget Mobile}
May 6th 2009 6:03PM It's not a rumor, it's a fact. Engineers are moving or already working on Microsoft PINK-their super duper iphonekiller with no features.
Citing sources is up to Engadget to obtain-from Microsoft. That's why these discussion boards are here. You can get the information BEFORE the corp stooges spin it. Citing sources exposes sources. Read "All the President's Men" sometime and get educated...
T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009 review {Engadget Mobile}
May 6th 2009 4:42PM 30-40 people were let go. The UI team, media teams, hardware and some associated PMs with the Sidekick. Shocking since Microsoft is mostly Political Project Managers with chips on their shoulders.
The remainder of the SK team that the PINK team needs to write in CE(not java or NetBSD) was moved to PINK or WINMO months ago. So the people who shut the lights off on the Sidekick were thanked in an email by the Roz "Dragon Woman" Ho and fired promptly. Then, to keep employees from going apeshitzz, they had the stormtroopers from Securitas(with arms this time) walk the halls and maintain control. Sort of like the Stazi.
So,
a) No more sidekicks. The people that made them are fired or working on the mirage of PINK,
b) Microsoft tried to weasel out of Danger's contract with TMobile but were threatened with lawsuit
c) To make schedule, MSFT had to ship the Sidekick as designed at that point which was NetBSD and Java. VP of PMX was said to have cried at that announcement.
That's it. No more Sidekicks.
Naming sources? Do you work for the Dragon Lady-why would I call out these sources. So I can get more people fired? The information is 90% public domain from public feeds anyway.
T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009 review {Engadget Mobile}
May 6th 2009 3:29PM Listen there are 200 employees there-in that old Sidekick division. They are hacked off and they talk smack on every message board,social net and twitter. In public. Microsoft has no intention of making another Sidekick. They wanted the service proxy patents and they want to let the CE product lines plus this wacko fantasy called PINK access the proxy. That way they have an instant message leg up on the iPhone which cannot do service-backed/proxy push notifications.
WINMO was horrified by the Sidekick Acquisition and they barked at Balmer to handcuff the PMX division OR the acquisition was just to kill a competitor to PINK off and snag the IP.
Inside talk is PINK is a barely functioning piece of junk-which is unlike the Sidekick. The Sidekick has a following and just needed some capital and decent management to make it a competitor. They have delivered and sold millions of these things and get a recurring service charge for each. UNLIKE the Microsoft consumer product which is 5 years late and billions short. C'mon- it's a NETBSD Sidekick. There is no way, except for lawsuits threatened by TMobile, that Microsoft would want to sell a Sidekick. Tmobile needed another Sidekick on the way to transition to Google phone. There's nothing that says a google phone cannot be a sidekick. That name is owned by TMobile.
T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009 review {Engadget Mobile}
May 6th 2009 12:42PM Enjoy the last sidekick. MSFT just fired the remaining SK staff with armed guards and only made this thing to avoid a lawsuit with TMobile.
Roz Ho congratukated the staff and then fired the employees for making it. MSFT just wanted the IP for WinMo anyway.
Now you get a seriously debilitated "PINK"device from MSFT as your next "upgrade." From what I have heard, it's a joke. No PIM apps and no 3rd party development system. A typical MSFT consumer product. Copy,rush to market and FAIL.
No street cred-get the iPhone
Sidekick LX 2009 outed in survey, could possibly be real {Engadget}
Jan 28th 2009 6:08PM That thing is so ugly and dated. Notice in the specs-no touch? Same fisheye trackball that gets clogged with Potato Chip Salt.
