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T-Mobile Sidekick

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Search complete. 17 mentions across 7 episodes found for "T-Mobile Sidekick".

Sep 25, 2026

Mike FigsGUEST
56:20
[laughs]
Kevin RyanGUEST
56:22
... and got my T-Mobile Sidekick stolen.
Mike FigsGUEST
56:26
[laughs]
Big Jay OakersonHOST
56:27
Dude, this is-
Kevin RyanGUEST
58:40
[laughs]
Luis J. GomezHOST
58:40
Yeah, we, we were on set-
Big Jay OakersonHOST
58:41
T-Mobile Sidekick
Luis J. GomezHOST
58:42
... at, uh, at, on Z Rock, a show that Big Jay was on.
Alexis MadrigalHOST
32:33
This ended with the tech recession in 2000, followed by another surge in Internet software with social media.
Alexis MadrigalHOST
32:39
But in the early 2000s, there was still a critical mass of hardware engineers so that the startup Danger Research created the Danger Sidekick, the first consumer smartphone was there.
Alexis MadrigalHOST
32:49
What happened to that diversity? That was really what made the Bay Area such a tech hub.
Alexis MadrigalHOST
32:55
It's interesting.
Robert AnthonyHOST
45:22
I don't know what.
Robert AnthonyHOST
45:24
My favorite cell phone I've ever gotten in my entire life was a T-Mobile Sidekick.
Robert AnthonyHOST
45:30
I've had the T-Mobile Sidekick 1 all the way to the last one.
Robert AnthonyHOST
45:35
I had 1, 2, 3, XL.
Robert AnthonyHOST
45:38
I was a T-Mobile Sidekick fanboy.
Robert AnthonyHOST
45:42
And I've gotten so many bookings on the T-Mobile Sidekick.
Robert AnthonyHOST
45:46
When I got it, do you know what it is? No.
Robert AnthonyHOST
45:49
Holy shit, dude.
AllyHOST
32:14
News.
AllyHOST
32:14
In 2002, the hottest flip phone was the T-Mobile Sidekick.
AllyHOST
32:18
Everybody wanted it, and it was $200.
AllyHOST
32:21
Now in 2026, the hottest flip phone is the newly announced Apple Duo, and it is $2,000.
Monét X ChangeHOST
56:56
I had—it was an old Nokia little phone.
Monét X ChangeHOST
56:58
Then I had the Sidekick.
Monét X ChangeHOST
57:00
Then I had the wing phone.
Kylie Sonique LoveGUEST
57:02
Oh, wow, girl.
Kylie Sonique LoveGUEST
57:02
You was bougie.
Kylie Sonique LoveGUEST
57:03
You had money?
Monét X ChangeHOST
57:04
No, I mean, I got—I mean, the Sidekick said—okay, so my—this is in my one-on-one show, Call Me by My Name, which I don't do anymore.
Monét X ChangeHOST
57:10
But my first boyfriend, Ricardo, he bought me a T-Mobile Sidekick.
Tommy DavidsonGUEST
14:22
Motorola Flip.
Jess HilariousHOST
14:23
Was it after that? That same, and then we had the Sidekicks that came out.
Jess HilariousHOST
14:25
That's before, uh- Oh, I had the Sidekick ... iPhones really got hot.
Tommy DavidsonGUEST
14:28
There you go.
Peter BullHOST
1:13
I eagerly awaited the release, but unfortunately it had major issues.
Peter BullHOST
1:17
However, Microsoft acquired Danger that year, which was the company behind the Sidekick, which was famously used by Paris Hilton at the time.
Peter BullHOST
1:25
So I decided to wait for a potential Windows Mobile version as my first smartphone.
Peter BullHOST
1:30
Two years later in 2010, what came from this was not what I had expected.
Peter BullHOST
1:34
It was the Kin 1, which was based upon the Danger Sidekick and Kin 2, which arrived and then were cancelled in quick succession, so I wasn't going to get one of those devices either.
Peter BullHOST
1:45
However, all was not lost as Microsoft had pivoted and announced Windows Phone 7 series, which would be a new modern operating system for mobile with applications based upon Silverlight.
Peter BullHOST
1:56
When Steve Ballmer, then CEO of Microsoft, said that every Silverlight developer could be a Windows Phone developer, I took on the challenge and started learning the platform to have my own apps on my very first smartphone.

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