[missing-sync-hiptop-talk] getting off the sidekick

[paul oberman]

I have been trying to migrate from my sidekick and it has not been 
easy.  I looked at the nokia 6820 on att. mmode was stupid and the 
device screen was too small to use.  The nokia interface is a mess.

I looked at the sony ericsson. great devices.  They sync with mac.  
great interface. the t610, which is supported under t-mobile is nice, 
until you walk into the sunlight and then you can't see anything.  I 
tried to download my contacts into the sim and on to the 610.  Didn't 
work, what a surprise.  The final straw was that the sony ericsson site 
says that the device has a wap 2.0 browser, but when you use it on 
t-mobile, it is just a thing called t-zones.  text only.  I have to 
call back into the wireless data group to see if you are stuck with 
that, but I imagine you are.

There is the sony ericsson p900, running on symbian, but I fear that 
T-mobile won't let you use the 19.95 unlimited data plan on that device 
too.  Not to mention, the best price I can find on it is 550.00.

There is the VOQ phone, which is probably the best form factor, which I 
know that will be available,  500 too.

Then, I finally just wanted to give up on connectivity and go with a 
good old motorola v60s phone, with speaker phone.  back ordered.  No 
standard v60's available through verizon in los angeles.  They say that 
they are anticipating new models at the end of the month. T-mobile said 
the same thing.

The best option I could come up with was to move myself and my wife 
over to nextel.  Motorola speaker phones with walkie talkie for $50.

The t-mobile rep had the nerve to tell me that he thought there was a 
new sidekick coming out. This is right after I spoke with a rep on the 
phone, who said that they were going to stop offering it.

now what???