
T-mobile and Microsoft are finding themselves in some hot water after recently "
misplacing" all of T-mobile Sidekick users personal data! Over 800,000 users woke up to find that all of their emails, contacts, calender events and etc. had just disappeared overnight.
Me, myself, I'm not too fond of the Sidekick, but people I know were very upset. However, T-Mobile being the nice people they are, are offering each user a $100 gift card. The catch is that you can only spend the gift card with T-Mobile.
T-Mobile and Microsoft Danger (
Danger is a subsidiary of Microsoft and is sub-contracted out to provide data storage for Sidekick Users) have been in talks to get into the smartphone and are currently working on a very special and unique phone code named "
PINK". All of the Sidekicks were pulled off of the shelves and are listed on their website as "
Currently Unavailable" which I think translates to "
We aren't making these anymore".
They say that the massive meltdown was caused by a backup server that obviously didn't serve its purpose. So, with that being said, never trust a network with all of your personal info and contacts! Always backup your data yourself! Then if you lose it, you can only be mad at yourself!