T-Mobile and Microsoft: Sidekick User Data is Gone
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how does sidekick really works?
i'm more of a mobile os user so i have no idea about the issue about the sidekick losing datas.
how did the wipe out thing happen in every sidekick?
is it like typical phones who have a hardware memory so you can save contacts, photos, etc?
i'm really curious about this because this is the first time i read a phone being wiped out of everything it had through a network service outage while all phones have its own hardware memory to store stuffs now...
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Sidekick is a dumb terminal computer, literally view this as a computer without a hard drive that only has a basic OS and all the information is stored remotely on a server which also does the heavy processing as well. The only stored on the sidekick are media on the microsd card and if you specify it contacts on the sim card (which is limited to just a name and phone number). Really stupid design, it should have been designed to be like other phones with an over the network sync of information.
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