T-Mobile revived the Sidekick brand with the Sidekick 4G in April 2011, which is based on a Samsung smartphone running Google's Android OS.

T-Mobile Sidekick 4G

In April 2011, T-Mobile revived the Sidekick brand for a new HSPA +- compatible Android smartphone developed by Samsung, known as the Sidekick 4G, based on the Galaxy S. While not utilizing the Hiptop's operating system, it incorporates features from the original series, including the keyboard, 3. 2 megapixel camera ( minus LED flash ), and the four-button layout, and adds a new Android-powered interface incorporating elements from the Hiptop's operating system.

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The Australian version is practically the same as the Sidekick 2 in the USA but re-constructed for the Australian audience — it has MSN Messenger built-in as the default messenger and Yahoo!

It was available for sale again on December 12, 2008, however, T-Mobile has once again discontinued the Sidekick Slide.

Access to direct TTY and Relay Operator communications has allowed the Hiptop / T-Mobile Sidekick and similar devices to, in many cases, replace the use of standard TTY / TDD machines, and its dominance is clearly illustrated by the evolution of its own sign in American Sign Language, made using both hands to mimic the opening of the rotating screen.

* May 2007, Professor Stephen Haseler ( Global Policy Institute, London Metropolitan University ) has written a book examining the history of the special relationship from a British perspective entitled Sidekick: Bulldog to Lapdog, British Global Strategy from Churchill to Blair

Some sidekicks are intended to provide a very limited but extremely powerful firepower at a critical moment such as bosses ( i. e. the plasma storm which causes extreme damage but has very low ammo ), other sidekicks can be considered extra regular firepower such as the unlimited ammo Vulcan Sidekick, and many sidekicks fall between the two extremes.

Webcomic has hinted he has a name ; " Better than your name ," the Flaming Prince says to his servant after Sidekick makes fun of the prince's name.

Boorem has been nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Sidekick ( for her role on Dawson's Creek ), and received four Young Artist Award nominations.

The Suzuki Escudo ( known as Sidekick in North America, Vitara in most of Western Europe, Bolivia, Ecuador, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan as well as North America after 1999 and the Grand Vitara in the United Kingdom, Eastern Europe, parts of South Asia, the Caribbean, Iran and Australia ) is an off-road vehicle that has been in production since 1988.

While the T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009 was no longer sold from July 2, 2010 onwards, modified versions of the device have been available for sale since.

On July 2, 2010, the T-Mobile Sidekick was discontinued and no longer available for sale through T-Mobile.

The Sidekick Slide was officially discontinued on August 8, 2008.

On August 1, 2008 T-Mobile released the Sidekick 2008 right before the Slide was discontinued.

In 1999, the Sidekick was discontinued, and a second generation Tracker was introduced, differing from the Sidekick's successor, the Grand Vitara.

Sidekick on this new show is Jeroen Kijk in de Vegte, who worked with De Wild before at 3FM, and producer is Martijn Zuurveen.

The Danger Hiptop, also re-branded as the T-Mobile Sidekick, Mobiflip and Sharp Jump is a GPRS / EDGE / UMTS smartphone produced by Danger Incorporated ( since 2008, a subsidiary of Microsoft ) from 2002 to 2010.

The Sidekick iD is a smaller version of the Sidekick 3.

The Sidekick LX is available in two different colors, Midnight Blue and Espresso Brown.

In Australia it is marketed as the Hiptop Slide and in the U. S. as the Sidekick Slide.

These upgrades include 128MB RAM and 225 MHz TI OMAP 850 processor, as opposed to the Sidekick 3 and LX's 64MB RAM and 200 MHz OMAP 331 processor, and a second speaker which is located on the back of the device, as opposed to the Hiptop 3 and LX's reliance on the D-pad speaker for both calls and music playback.

The Sidekick 2008 is available only in certain T-mobile stores.

The Sidekick LX 2009 model runs DangerOS 5. 0, which is reported to be based on NetBSD.

Sidekick user data is stored at Danger facilities, now under the ownership of Microsoft.

As the November 7, 1994 Info World noted, " Despite its name, the only connection between Sidekick for Windows 1. 0 and the venerable Sidekick for DOS is that Borland International owns both programs.

Sidekick for Windows is a combination of the calendaring code from Prisma Software Corp .' s Windows PIM YourWay ( purchased by Borland last year ) and a completely new interface developed by Borland.

Sidekick Web Publisher compatibility is added via separate add-on.

* September 13: Cameron Lacroix is sentenced to 11 months for gaining access to T-Mobile USA's network and exploiting Paris Hilton's Sidekick.

The player can carry 2 Sidekick weapons at once, but only 1 is usable at a time.

* Pleaser – Can be in or out of clique: immediately adopts all of the Queen Bee and Sidekick ’ s opinions, yet never gains their approval and is often treated with indifference by the Queen Bee.

On October 2, 2009, Microsoft suffered an outage which resulted in prolonged unavailability of data for US T-Mobile Sidekick users, along with shorter periods of no data access for Telstra and T-Mobile UK users.

T-Mobile announced on July 2, 2010, that the Sidekick LX 09 and Sidekick 2008 would no longer be available through T-Mobile.

Long time users of Sidekick 98 report no difficulties continuing to use the program through subsequent iterations of Windows, up to and including Windows 7.

All versions of the Hiptop were developed in close partnership with T-Mobile, although carrier-specific features were either removed or added for each carrier, such as the addition of MMS for SunCom and Telstra hiptop 2 users, where the feature was not available on T-Mobile USA devices until the Sidekick LX in 2007.

The T-Mobile USA Sidekick 3 was made available in three limited edition models which only differed in cosmetic color changes:

On December 6, 2007, the Sidekick Slide was once again available for purchase.

First introduced as the Escudo in the Japanese domestic market in May 1988, the North American Sidekick became available for 1989 as a 2-door convertible or hardtop, in 1. 0-litre JA and more powerful 4-wheel-drive JX & JLX trims.

The original Sidekick was updated in 1996 with a new Sport version available with, 1. 8-litre 16-valve 4-cylinder engine.

A new version of Sidekick was released in late 2009 under the title The HERO System Basic Rulebook, while an Advanced Player Guide was published that had additional options for character creation.

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The Sidekick LX ( PV-250 ) was released on October 17, 2007 for existing T-Mobile customers via the Internet and five special locations.

Like the LX, this Sidekick for T-Mobile USA adds the Multimedia Messaging application and provides support for T-Mobile MyFaves plans.

The development of applications for the Sidekick platform was also halted on September 21, 2010.

For example, a bundle file for v3. 4 / 155053 ( T-Mobile Sidekick 3 ) would be denied installation on a v3. 3 / 149695 device ( T-Mobile Sidekick iD ).