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Why These 'Revolutionary' Phones Failed So Hard

Here are some of the most significant phone flops of all time.

Christina Warren

5/01/17 9:17AM

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A Father's Bedtime Superhero Story Comes to Life In the Heartbreaking Sidekick

The empowerment behind all of our favorite superhero stories is what makes the genre such a timeless one, filled…

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All Danger Sidekick Phones Just Became Feature Phones

What use is a Sidekick without the services? Last night, the Danger servers closed down for good, meaning no more…

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Sidekick Returns as the Samsung-Made T-Mobile Sidekick 4G

Danger-powered Sidekicks may be dead now, but the Sidekick brand is still living on. Samsung's Android Froyo…

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T-Mobile Pulling The Plug on Danger-Powered Sidekicks

If you still have a Sidekick phone running the Danger OS, its days of being a fully functioning device are numbered.…

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Reborn 4G Sidekick Revealed?

The teen texting dream machine and proto-smartphone Sidekick is rising from the grave, imbued with 4G and Android…

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4G Sidekick Coming Soon to T-Mobile, Only This Time It's Running Android

Straight out of T-Mobile CEO's mouth, we have confirmation of a 4G Sidekick: only this one's running Android.…

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The Sidekick Gets Kicked To The Curb

I come to bury Sidekick, not to praise him. Less than 24 hours after Microsoft killed Kin dead, T-Mobile has…

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Rumor: HTC Android Phone With Slide-Out QWERTY Keypad Launching With T-Mobile?

Being a day-two customer of the G1, I know the plight of slide-out QWERTY Android-lovers well. WHERE ARE OUR GODDAMN…

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Kick-Ass Knows Superhero Fans Are Masochists

The superheroes in Kick-Ass don't have super-powers or fantastical technology, but they're not regular people.…

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Leaked Documents: Microsoft's Secret Phones Coming to Verizon

After the Windows Phone 7 launch passed without so much as a mention of Project Pink, Microsoft's other new phone…

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Project Pink Lives, or, Why Windows Phone 7 Is Only Half the Story

Ok ok ok, rewind a few weeks. Before WinPho 7 trundled into the daylight, the strongest evidence we had for a new…

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Microsoft Turtle and Pure Dumbphones Run on Silverlight, Powered by Nvidia Tegra Graphics

With Windows Phone 7 out, everyone has forgotten about the other Microsoft handsets, the allegedly Sidekick-derived…

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Unconfirmed: T-Mobile Phasing Out Sidekick Following Intro of MyTouch Slide

BGR is reporting that the Sidekick's days at T-Mobile are numbered. While it's speculation for now, evidence from a…

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The "Next Generation" of Microsoft Phones Making Cameos All Over the Internet

Rumors about Microsoft's mobile plan are evolving, weirdly! Today, we've got dueling speculation: from Twitter,…

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Sidekick Is Back, Y'all

You didn't think a little data loss was going to stop Sidekick, did you? Sales of the unexpectedly risky handsets…

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Hurray, Sidekick Owners, You Can Get Your Contacts Back Now

In today's edition of the "steady progress" being made in recovering the data lost in the Great Sidekick Out(r)age…

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Microsoft "Making Steady Progress" On Sidekick Data Recovery

Last week it seemed the Danger/Microsoft team was on the verge of sorting out the fiasco that saw widespread data…

Sean Fallon

10/19/09 12:58PM

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The Inevitable Sidekick Data Loss Lawsuit

BTW, a sidekick user has started a class action lawsuit against T-mobile over Microsoft/Danger's loss of all Hiptop…

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"Most, if Not All" Sidekick Data Recovered

Good news: It looks like Sidekick data fiasco is finally coming to an end. Over on T-Mobile's Sidekick forums, an…

Danny Allen

10/15/09 6:49AM

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