T-Mobile Sidekick 3

reply on April 18, 2007 by asadnyc

Seriously who cares about how expensive an item is when its not worth that price? Right? You've got millionaire parents that just spend money on **** because Paris Hilton owns it? No, man. Its part of being a smart consumer. This phone is worth this and that much and shouldn't be sold at this and that price. Thats how a smart consumer works. You, on the other hand, have no idea what your talking about and Paris Hilton is your best friend.<br><br>Only one word can sum up the sidekick 3: Garbage.<br><br>Yeah sure, read all the reviews from 14 year olds telling you how convenient the phone is in their complicated lives and how they couldn’t live without it:<br><br>“lieik oh me god dis phonezzz liekk sooo kewlllzz u hurddd even paris Hilton liek its liekk CRAZYYY yaaahhh!! Im sooo spoild I suckered my dead beat parents for the money for this phone so liek I dun even realize what aworthless piece of **** it iz! Lolz!”<br><br>Sometimes I think cnet has editors like these 14 year old girls that write their reviews. If your still interested in the rant, you can read on:<br><br><br>The phone is expensive. Get ready to shell out about $300 for it. For a great phone, I would not mind paying the heavy price tag. In fact, I would feel comfortable paying $600 for the iPhone because its feature packed and intuitive. This phone, on the other hand, made of plastic and a $7 screen (yes that’s how much that screen costs to make) is not worth anywhere near the value its selling for. Take a sidekick 2, trim it down in size, make it freeze all the time, give it an even cheaper feel, a track ball that feels like a deodorant roll on ball, keep the same screen, etc.<br><br>Main issues are:<br>- Phone is constantly freezing. <br>- If you turn your phone off and turn it back on in an area with no data reception then you won’t have any of your e-mails, notes, etc. <br>- Bluetooth is limited to headset and sending your phone number (v card) to some other idiot. If you’re a 14 year old ditz or if your Paris Hilton, then this won’t matter, because odds are you’ll have no idea how flexible and powerful Bluetooth technology can be when its not crippled.<br>- The phone doesn’t play or record video. My Razr can play back and record video, and those phones are for free.<br>- Screen is the same as the Sidekick II. It’s a very cheap screen. Those 14 year olds will come out saying again “I luv diz screennz” because they’ve never seen how beautiful other phones screens are. And they don’t have the pleasure of knowing how much their parents spent on the rubble to come with a piece of **** screen.<br>- The keys are plastic, the phone is cheap as ****. Its supposed to be a high end phone, at least make it feel high end. The people its targeted could probably use a microwave as a phone and tell you how great the service is.<br>- Battery life is abysmal. This is the most comment complaint I’ve heard. Its worse then the Sidekick II’s battery life. What’s the point of a mobile communications device when you have to stay glued to a charger? <br>- Already mentioned in a previous line but its expensive for what you get.<br>- The internet is the same speed as the Sidekick II’s. EDGE? T-Mobile does not broadcast EDGE for the sidekick data plan. When they do, EDGE will already be obsolete and they’ll double your data plans.<br>- The person on the other line heres an echo when they talk to you . People always tell me to lower the volume on the phone so they don’t hear their own echo. You have to lower it to about the 1st bar out of about 7 so that they don’t hear the echo. At this point the volumes so low you have to stick that bulky brick deep in your ear.<br>- The phone is ugly. Its looks stupid. Every time you want to use it you have to do that stupid flip. Definitely looks stupid for anyone using it that’s over the age of 12. <br>- The e-mail is limited to 6mb. That’s right. Got a 2 gb card and want to put all your e-mails on the SK3? Too bad. Yet again, your limited.<br>- You can’t set MP3s as your ring tones. Instead, you have to buy a 5 second ring tone that costs $2.50. The entire song is cheaper on iTunes then the 5 second ring tone costs through T-Mobile. <br>- The unit uses USB 1.1, so if you’re thinking of transferring lets say about 30 songs to your sidekick 3 it should take you a good 10 minutes. Imagine filling up a 1 gb card. Good luck.<br>- You can’t open multiple tabs in the web browser. My PSP can do that and it’s a lot older and cheaper then the sidekick 3. <br>- I don’t care about this one but I’ve heard a lot of complaints from AIM users that say the AIM disconnects a lot, is slow, and you still can’t read peoples profiles or set one on the phone. <br>- Phone doesn’t come with an alarm clock. Shell out 5 bucks for that.<br>- Doesn’t come with a calculator either. To T-Mobile there are no standard applications that should be included. Thank god the calculator is free or I would of thrown this phone out the window.<br>- Text messaging client is abysmal. There’s several rants on the internet about this. You could have full service and won’t be able to send out your message and you lose it forever.<br>- A lot of dropped calls.<br>- You’ll get a lot of “Why don’t you pick up your phone?” questions. And all you can say is “I have a sidekick 3” and they understand. Your going to miss a lot of incoming calls simply because the Sidekick 3 does not receive them, so you’ll never know who is calling or not =)<br>- A lot of complaints on the Camera. I don’t care too much on this one but I hear a lot of fuss about the quality being terrible. Like mentioned earlier it does not record video (now that one, I do care about). Every picture comes out ****** and grainy.<br>- The music player only plays MP3’s (I only listen to MP3s but I also here a few complaints on this one). Its also ******, freezes all the time, its random function doesn’t work properly as it creates a random play list that it always plays when you chose random instead of actually randomly playing your library songs. They probably took about 10 seconds to make this MP3 player just to say, hey the new SK3 has an MP3 player go spend your hard earned cash on this piece of **** because its an upgrade from the SK2! ********.<br>- The phone interface is downright childish. Look how stupid it is. Its just a pain to look at it. After using it for about 3 days, I returned it for a Dash. Much happier. <br><br><br>To each his own, but the people who tell you this phone is great are either 14, are retarded or have sucker parents who bought it for them. You don’t want to spend your hard earned cash on a piece of **** marketing gimmick just because Paris Hilton uses it. End of rant.