T-Mobile and Sidekick? you may wanna read (lolT-Mobile)

[Odon]

<3 my blackberry tour fuck tmobile

[Eanae]

Agreed. I love my Blackberry.

[AoE]

My younger brother had his first Sidekick stolen.

My mom broke down and tried to buy him another one on Ebay and almost got robbed outta $500.

Shit's gotta be worth...something right?

[Akucaen]

I love my blackberry but my samsung alias2 is really growing on me. I just worry Im going to break the hinge

I still have a slight mistrust about hinge and slider phones. My Nokia 6255i lasted for three years opening and closing it 5-10 times a day, everyday. The display unit, by the time I stopped using it, was about 1mm raised on one side. All in all that was a sturdy phone. My LG AX585 (LG Rhythm) on the other hand is a great phone, but I've owned it...9 months now and the slider on it already gives enough movement that it's concerning.

Oh well.

[Velgadess]

Its gone. pretty much no recovery for the data lost. Now on who to blame according to this, Microsoft is.

http://www.hiptop3.com/archives/what...-sidekick-fail


What Caused the Sidekick Fail?
By now the word is out on the street. Microsoft/Danger has most likely lost everyone’s personal info including contacts, notes, calendar entries, to-dos, etc. The question remains: How did this happen? Microsoft is a big software company, they’re well versed in the enterprise world and should have systems in place that allow them to weather any sort of issue like this. Of course everyone (T-Mobile, Microsoft/Danger) hasn’t come out with any details on the cause of the failure, but we’ve got some theories and rumors floating around.

Currently the rumor with the most weight is as follows:
Microsoft was upgrading their SAN (Storage Area Network aka the thing that stores all your data) and had hired Hitachi to come in and do it for them. Typically in an upgrade like this, you are expected to make backups of your SAN before the upgrade happens. Microsoft failed to make these backups for some reason. We’re not sure if it was because of the amount of data that would be required, if they didn’t have time to do it, or if they simply forgot. Regardless of why, Microsoft should know better. So Hitachi worked on upgrading the SAN and something went wrong, resulting in it’s destruction. Currently the plan is to try to get the devices that still have personal data on them to sync back to the servers and at least keep the data that users have on their device saved.

We’ve heard this from what appears to be several sources and it seems to hold weight. Needless to say it all boils down to one thing: Microsoft did not have a working backup.

How this happens in today’s day and age is beyond belief. Hundreds of thousands of customers that generate millions of dollars in revenue means you back their stuff up, in triplicate. You test these backups regularly, and you move a copy off site that doesn’t get touched except in case of an emergency (i.e. right now). The head of the mobile division (and person in charge of what’s left of Danger) is Roz Ho, who has been at Microsoft for 18 years. You would think she’d know something about how to run a business.

What does this mean for the future of the Sidekick? Unless Microsoft pulls a miracle out of thin air the Sidekick is dead. People are already jumping ship to other phones with this news, and the exposure of how inept Microsoft is when it comes to the mobile world is huge. If Microsoft can’t continue to run Danger, a company that was ground-breaking and solidly built, how can we expect anything from the Windows Mobile department?


other related links
T-Mobile's 'oopsie we sowwy'
http://consumerist.com/5378839/t+mob...omer-data-fail

It's M$'s fault not T-Mobile
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/1...ng-lack-of-ba/

DIE T-MOBILE DIE!!!
http://www.vincecardillo.com/blog/20...idekick-brand/

[Priran]

That's not racist at all.

sanctimony? on MY bg?

[Uzor]

Wow, lol. Fail. First it doesn't store everything directly on the mobile like any logically built mobile device would, and then they fail to make regular backups...

[Z.Z.]

People still use Sidekicks?

[Akucaen]

I had no idea MS ran the backend for the sidekick. Do those phones run a Windows Mobile variant? Going back to the only one I used, I don't remember a single windows related anything on the first one.