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T-Mobile brings Sidekick iD back from the dead

Categories: Devices, T-Mobile
By: , IntoMobile
Monday, November 10th, 2008 at 1:07 PM

T-Mobile’s current Sidekick offerings have traditionally catered to the younger, hipper demographic looking for stylish, messaging-oriented handsets that don’t break the bank. To that end, the new Sidekick 2008 represents a marriage of functionality and style by combining many of the features of the flagship Sidekick LX with the swappable cover plates of the Sidekick iD.

But, it seems that T-Mobile still sees a need for a lower-end HipTop product to round-out their Sidekick portfolio. So, to fill the entry-level gap left by the Sidekick iD’s demise, T-Mobile has apparently brought the low-cost Sidekick back from its gadget-grave. The Sidekick iD debuted early last year to little fanfare and was quickly relegated to the depths of stockrooms in T-Mobile stores nationwide. Now, thanks to a little voodoo that brings dead and forgotten handsets back to life, T-Mobile is once again offering the entry-level Sidekick iD to Sidekick fans on a seriously limited budget.

T-Mobile is offering their T-Mobile Sidekick iD for $50 when purchased with a new two-year contract. There’s no denying that the $50 price-point is as entry-level as you can get before giving the handset away for free, but considering the Sidekick iD’s original $100 asking price, we’d think T-Mobile would do well to offer the Sidekick iD as a free-with-contract handset.

[Via: HipTop3]

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • tweetybird

    i think that the sidekcick id is very old and i wonder if people can send u pictures on it even though its npt a camersa phone.

  • Nevenka

    oh wow. well i just got the sidekick 2008 at walmart the other day for 52 dollars. Including tax.