ONLY 24 HOURS?? fuck off! kill the president now!!

u have 24 hours............. innit

yeh thats rite i agree with jb-db!

we want TWO read it TWO sidekick colour t-mobile things when they come to us we will be very gratefull we may even donate to the 9/11 fund! that is VERY greatfull since we r tramps! plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz give us one oooopsss TWO NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i mean now or i will kill tha president! i am osama bin laden and i need to keep in contact with my mother!

Edited by author 02-09-2004 12:44 PM
Hey, it's February, 9th 2004 :-) Is the Tri-band version of the HIPTOP out in the USA? :-) I can't wait. Was hoping to buy that thing before I went traveling so I could use SIM cards from different country. :-| Any information would be appreciated.

Adieu ..

Ok, It's now turning Nov 03 - is there any update on the tri-band SK availability in the U.S.??

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Guy and Allyson,
Thanks for your interest and support for the T-Mobile Sidekick.
I am sorry that you weren’t able to get answers to your questions.
The Color Sidekick has a US single band radio. It is not a Triband, but a 1900 Mhz U.S. device only.
Later this year Danger, the developer of the Color Sidekick, will be introducing a Triband version of the device. It will be available in Europe and most likely in the U.S.
Perhaps at that time, T-Mobile could offer an upgrade program, but that would strictly be their decision.
I am currently using a prototype version of our Triband phone and I am in Europe frequently. It works extremely well in Europe.
We are going through the final certification process of our device in Europe and then it will be launched.

I hope this helps answer your questions.

Best regards,
Hank Nothhaft

Allyson,
The model Hank Nothhaft showed me in Cannes, France, was tri-band. That is, it works in the European and American (and anywhere else that GSM works) frequency bands.

Specifically, tri-band is 900 MHz, plus 1800 MHz (the two European frequencies) and 1900 MHz (the US frequency). In other words, the thing can work, and the one Hank demonstrated in France was working.

What I need to find out, is whether there’s any “trick” to switching from one frequency to another. Most phones that are tri-band automatically detect whatever frequency is available, and switch to it. However, while that’s usual, it’s not inevitable, and I’ve asked Danger for clarification of “how do you switch frequencies, if you have to?”

What I can’t tell you, is whether your ID card - the SIM or Subscriber Identity Module - in the phone will be set up to “roam” in Europe – that’s something only T-Mobile can arrange. If you ask for roaming, they should just arrange it.

However beware! – roaming costs can be huge. Ask T-Mobile what the data rates will be, and the call rates. Data, especially, can be charged at obscene premium costs!

It’s worth considering getting a European “SIM-only” contract for that month. Again, I don’t know for sure exactly whether this is a problem for contacting Danger’s server’s in the US, but I believe it isn’t. Hank certainly was accessing those servers when I met him in France. I believe it’s just an Internet connection, and therefore doesn’t care where the host computer is located. I could be wrong, of course.

From: AllysonRay@aol.com [1]

I hope you don't mind me asking....but nobody seems to be able to tell me if the new color sidekick has international capabilites. I am buying a color sidekick thru t-mobile and it should arrive next week. I will be in Europe for one month this summer and wanted to use it for sending and receiving email and also as a phone. My t-mobile salesperson says this sidekick does not have dual band capabilities and probably will not work in Europe. Do you know anything about this?

If the sidekick will not work in Europe, I need to find perhaps a rental phone that also has email capabilities, but none of the rental agencies (eg. thru t-mobile, verizon, at&t, etc) have an email (data) phone to rent.

There must be businessmen in the US who travel to Europe and need a phone and/or email device that works internationally.....do you know of any such devices or plans?

Thank you for any information you may have,

Allyson Ray
New Mexico, USA

Edited by author 06-06-2003 04:27 PM
(That's "sidekick" of course!)

We've never had such a frenzy of interest as we got from our February story that Danger had designed a new hiptop. "When will it ship?" people asked.

T-Mobile has announced it, as the "color Sidekick" today. It explains, of course, why the phone operator postponed the launch of its Microsoft Smartphone, the Tanager. Nobody would want to launch two such similar devices at the same time.