The 4G was discontinued in 2012 and a new Sidekick has yet to follow.
Blackberry sidekick phone full#
In 2011, T-Mobile briefly offered a new phone called the Sidekick 4G, based on Android, bringing the whole thing full circle.
Android was then acquired by Google and went on to develop the most popular smart phone operating system in the world. Danger co-founder Andy Rubin left the company in 2003 and started a company called Android. Microsoft killed off the Sidekick soon after, in favor of the short lived Microsoft Kin brand.īut that's not the end of the story. Then, iPhone came into existence and accelerated the world toward smartphones. Most casual users had flip phones, and businesspeople often had PDAs like Blackberrys. Mobile phones in the early 2000s took few forms. That became a fiasco in 2009 when, the year after Danger was acquired by Microsoft, a database error wiped out all of users' contacts and other info. The Modern Smartphone Started as a Sidekick. Your contacts were backed up exclusively to Danger's own web service. Unlike most other smart phones before and since, you couldn't sync your address book with a third party application like Microsoft Outlook. But even after this addition, the phone remained incredibly restricted. Eventually, much as Apple would do later, it offered an app store. Launched in 2002, the original Sidekick had a black and white screen, a full keyboard, and only a handful of applications.
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