Motorola’s Sidekick Slide fleet has critical slide-mechanism flaw

Early Sidekick Slide adopters are probably all too aware of the critical flaw plaguing their slide mechanism. Reports are coming in that the new Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Sidekick Slide, whose namesake takes after the cool sliding screen, will intermittently hard-reset (read: total data loss), or turn off upon actuation of the sliding screen.   It seems a slightly loose battery is to blame for the sliding screen’s troubles – sliding the screen upwards jiggles the battery out of place and prompts a reboot or shutdown of the Sidekick Slide.

How did Motorola let such a design flaws slip through the cracks? We’re not sure. All we know is that there are a lot of people out there that are none too pleased to have to gamble with their Sidekick Slide’s data everytime they slide that screen open. On a positive note, the data is saved on Danger’s servers, so you can just download all your saved data after a hard-reset.

Come on, Motorola. A device named for the cool sliding mechanism should have had the slide-screen thoroughly tested before release.

[Via: Boy Genius Report]