Jump to content

T-mobile Sidekick/microsoft Fail


rhineholt

Recommended Posts

Well done T-mo/Doze... I esp. like the comment, "This goes beyond FAIL, face-palm, or any of the other internet memes we’ve come to associate with incompetence."
Link to comment
Share on other sites

QUOTE (Jeff_T @ Oct 10 2009, 06:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Well done T-mo/Doze... I esp. like the comment, "This goes beyond FAIL, face-palm, or any of the other internet memes we’ve come to associate with incompetence."

It sucks. I talked to a person who had a sidekick today and they didn't know about it before they turned it off and lost everything they had.
Link to comment
Share on other sites

QUOTE (NIGHTS OF BAGHDAD @ Oct 10 2009, 08:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
i hate tmobile, do they even have 3g yet? i dont think they do..the only good thing about them is catherine zeta jones..damn i love that girl..lol


Yeah, they do...... The Android phones are expected to take over iPhone im the next couple years by the way, which will give them even greater market share. I thiink carriers being good or bad generally depends where you live. In So. California T-Mobile is amazing. In 6 years I've had one call drop. One. And that was on a Bluetooth headset so I don't know if it was the service or the headset that dropped at that moment. Plus they have great rates. So I love it.

'Rani
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Verizon is also in the works with google of creating/releasing android based phones, so it's not just T-mo that will gain market share because of this... I could really care less about the Sidekick thing, if you're over 18 get a real phone, not just a toy. I'll stick with my trusty blackberry on America's #1 network, Verizon.
Link to comment
Share on other sites

QUOTE (Jeff_T @ Oct 11 2009, 12:54 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Verizon is also in the works with google of creating/releasing android based phones, so it's not just T-mo that will gain market share because of this... I could really care less about the Sidekick thing, if you're over 18 get a real phone, not just a toy. I'll stick with my trusty blackberry on America's #1 network, Verizon.

That sounded like it was straight out of a commercial...
Link to comment
Share on other sites

QUOTE (NIGHTS OF BAGHDAD @ Oct 10 2009, 11:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
i hate tmobile, do they even have 3g yet? i dont think they do..the only good thing about them is catherine zeta jones..damn i love that girl..lol

Yeah, they have 3G. Its also the most affordable around, at least where I am.
I have one of the Android phones (MyTouch3G) and I get 3G coverage in quite a few places, although their coverage map is way out of date (the coverage I get is way better than the online map indicates, so not sure when that was last updated).
really sucks about the folks with sidekicks; makes one wonder about the "cloud-based" computing some phones are aimed at. The servers that failed are actually at MicroSoft, "Danger" if you will....so if MicroSoft can dump the Danger servers they run for T-Mobile, how many of us have MSN, hotmail, Live, etc. online email accounts and calenders, etc....?
Got Windows mobile? same company runs the servers.
Been thinking about picking up a Palm Pre for the wife, but it does a lot of its work in the ether as well....
Wonder how they're going to safeguard against this.
T-mobile backs up the android phones for free...so if mine ever crashes, I can get another one, backfill it, and it will retain all my info.
too bad Sidekick/MicroSoft didn't have the same idea


John P.
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Wow.. just wow.. If they really were performing a SAN upgrade, without running a backup first, they are fools. Running a cloud environment to handle user data, they should have multiple redundant storage arrays, while getting backed up to tape at the very least. Its inexcusable for something like this to happen, if they engineered it right, which by the sound of it they did not..

-10 internets to you tmobile.
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...