Microsoft doesn't back up its data? That's potentially problematic.
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Did someone stick a fridge magnet on the server again?
Umm? What Jensen said.
Here's a comment on the engadget page about the story:
If tmobile thinks that they can buy me off with a 19.99 credit after losing every phone # contact i gathered for the last 3-5 years of my life they are sorely mistaken. Class actions here we come. Goodbye tmobile, goodbye sidekick. This is more than unacceptable. Other then this post i am absolutely speechless from rage.
My boss' non-work phone is a Sidekick. Luckily she's got everything backed up at home.
Do you guys locally back up your phones? I have no doubt that I'd be expecting Microsoft to back up their service to me, but I'm still pretty OCD about it--my contacts and calendar and to do list are duplicated once on the Mac and once on the PC, aside from an actual phone backup on the PC.
I don't. But I'm not in the applicable user group. My phone was free with purchase of contract and doesn't connect to my computer in any way.
I would still be pretty pissed if I lost all my contact info. So I should probably do something manually, huh?
With a Sidekick, I don't think there's a way to back up your data out of the box. The Sidekick is a dumb terminal that is tethered to their servers.
I don't think there's a way to back up your data out of the box
Panic stations.
The Sidekick is a dumb terminal that is tethered to their servers.
You're basically running VNC or its ilk?
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