I had been testing a Tmobile Windows CE device at the time and kept having to take it back to the shop. But the first minute I got my Sidekick, I knew I had something very special. Some crazy WAP phones without much direction from Nokia.Windows Mobile phones that were almost unusable and required a stylus to make a call.Treos which were good organizers but painful on the Internet.Early Blackberries that barely did anything beyond email.The only other smart devices back then were:
It was 2003 when I got my Color Sidekick (the Black and White one debuted a year earlier). In fact, I'd venture to say that the Sidekick was the first real smartphone ever made. My first smartphone was a Tmobile Sidekick.
Google, in turn, made Rubin the Director of Mobile Platforms. Rubin later formed Android, which was then bought by Google. They created an entirely new platform and with the help of Tmobile, revolutionized the way phones worked. The Sidekick came out of the efforts of a few ex-Apple Engineers, Andy Rubin, Joe Britt, and Matt Hershenson, who started Danger in 2000. Perhaps this switchover was part of the reason for the outage?īut really, the Sidekick was already dead, Microsoft was just the latest to put a nail in its coffin. Microsoft may or may not launch the Pink line of smartphones which are based on the same Sharp hardware and will supposedly replace the Sidekick in the near future. This incident effectively marks the end of the line for one of the most important devices in gadget history.
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