Talk to me, Dr. LJ: Phone Edition
Oct. 11th, 2009 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamagotchaSo Danger was acquired by Microsoft, and now my Sidekick about as useful as a can on a string.
It's time to think about a new phone.
Things I love about my hiptop: Using AIM to chat with my husband and kids all day, every day. The responsive QWERTY keyboard. Easy Internet access.
Things I don't so much love: really, nothing. Until this horrible data outage, I was pretty happy with it. I did like playing with some g3 phones I've seen, and certainly the iPhone is a schweet piece of technology, but in general the Sidekick has been working really well for me.
When Bill had his iPhone, I messed around with it... and found the keyboard to be clumsy and hard to use. Other than that, the iPhone was pretty fun... but I type ALL THE TIME on my phone, and I need it to be able to handle that.
So... what else out there rivals the Sidekick in ease and access, but isn't supported by a company that will blithely inform me that all my data is gone and there's not a thing I can do about it?
It's time to think about a new phone.
Things I love about my hiptop: Using AIM to chat with my husband and kids all day, every day. The responsive QWERTY keyboard. Easy Internet access.
Things I don't so much love: really, nothing. Until this horrible data outage, I was pretty happy with it. I did like playing with some g3 phones I've seen, and certainly the iPhone is a schweet piece of technology, but in general the Sidekick has been working really well for me.
When Bill had his iPhone, I messed around with it... and found the keyboard to be clumsy and hard to use. Other than that, the iPhone was pretty fun... but I type ALL THE TIME on my phone, and I need it to be able to handle that.
So... what else out there rivals the Sidekick in ease and access, but isn't supported by a company that will blithely inform me that all my data is gone and there's not a thing I can do about it?
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Date: 2009-10-12 04:50 am (UTC)Frankly, the whole Danger/Microsoft thing is a debacle, but I was similarly distraught years ago when I ditched my Sidekick, when I learned that as soon as I bought a Blackberry from T-Mobile, Danger deleted everything I'd ever had stored on their servers (including all of the address data for all of my contacts) and shut off my e-mail with no option to forward it and no way for me to recover anything. So it isn't just a problem with Microsoft's acquisition of them, it's something they've been doing to people for a long time. I thankfully had printed out my address book off of their web site.