While i was at home for the holidays i saw my friends Sidekick and he showed me the terminal program on it. at the time i was havinging a hell of a time with my server and was always looking for an SSH client while i was traveling. So when i got back to chicago i started thinking about whether or not a Sidekick would be a good idea. My friend chris got one and i was hooked. it worked well for him and he was able to IM from anywhere. so i decided to go ahead and grab one.

I ordered my Sidekick from some sketchy ecomm site. it came a couple days later. i called and changed my plan from the default plan they give new phone users to the sidekick unlimited data plan. once that was clear i was free to play.

The thing that relaly bugged me was that all of the data is decentralized. it is cool - cuz you “can’t” really lose anything. but you are not able to get to your data either. it took me WAY WAY too long to get all my phone numbers and such into the sidekick. i was disappointed that they don’t have a REAL dekstop client for their website. it woudl be really cool if it integrated into something like palm desktop or whatever. and not through painful importing and exporting. what happedn to SYNCML???

the web browser sucks so bad. seriously. not even worth talkign about. it is shit.

The AIM is incredible. Very easy to learn and well designed. i woudl say that this is the best feature.

The EMAIL client is infuriating. WHY oh WHY didn’t they just make it a legitimate IMAP/POP client. why did they have to integrate it into their shitty “service.” arggh. half of the reason i use smartphones is to integrate with my OWN email service.

They really got the interface right. it is very easy to use. i was able to show people and they picked it up right away. it is also and intuitive device. it justs begs people to use it.

i don’t know if i woudl pay a lot of money for it. i think it partially is attractive because of the bling aspect. it is a great companion for a nice cell phone. it is something i would carry in a bag not in my pocket. it is far too big. haha.