T-Mobile Sidekick LX Update Now Official Scoop: June 25 for cool Upgrades
T-Mobile according to Engadget have made the Sidekick LX update official which will start next Wednesday June 25, as they have said which is true when you think about it, it is not often you get official availability of anything at all, either it being software or hardware.
We all know that the internet loves the world of rumours and obviously this news update beats all those rumours straight in the face, the latest scoop is that there is going to be a massive update for T-Mobile’s Sidekick LX which will include stereo Bluetooth support, integrated alarm clock, video capability and much more goodies to put a big hefty smile on your face. Please do let us know when it really does get to you, because we would love to know what this update is all about.
Many of you love the new Sidekick LX because it is slimmer and much sleeker, it has a very large screen that incorporates high-definition LCD technology, and it also has a camera with flash and much more. We will let give you more information next Wednesday when we know more. Of course if you know more right now please drop us a line in the comments area provided below because this is important for our readers. This update should really be worth the wait if all goes well.
Source — Engadget
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96 thoughts on “T-Mobile Sidekick LX Update Now Official Scoop: June 25 for cool Upgrades”
Why are they not sending an update for the T-Mobile Sidekick Slide????
CANT WAIT!!!
Omg I can’t f*cking wait todays the date where is the damn update ahhhhhhhh 🙂
because sidekick slide is a smaller phone. i think its not any room to update the video package to the sidekick slide users because the sidekick lx is a widescreen phone that u can play video on but the slide has a smaller screen thats why. i might not be saying this right but its what im guessing
The sidekick slide has a smaller screen, a little bit lower resolution but but it does have 128 MB RAM when the LX only has 64….I still can’t see why they can’t implement the same upgrade to it…They are pretty much identical…The things that make you go hmmmmm… 🙂
i m want buy sidekick lx!!
u come pick sidekick lx
pls
u go at in t-moblie
umm i didnt get that update yet wats going on!
i still haven’t got my update……WTF?!?
where the f*** is my update?
No update! How will I know when it comes, sorry new sidekick user. Never received an update before, I sure do love my lx though!
where tha fuck iz my update at?!? I BEEN WAITIN 4 FOREVER!!! I NEED THAT FUCKIN VIDEO CAMERA SHITT!!!! I WANTED IT FOR 4th OF JULY, BUT NO FUCKIN UPDATE YET!!!!….COME ON T-MOBILE, HURRY THA FUCKK UP!!!
wats the rush…tmobile is not really into the updates.. its danger! they are the 1s who need to hurry!!!
Wtf I’m still waiting for the fuckin update
Did any 1 know when will I get it?
Because I can’t wait
wtf like srly why is it takin so long
im tired of waitin!
so has anyone gat da updAte yet
….imigration deported my dog
still waitin…..
Why is it taking so longgggggg
where the heck is this upgrade I’ve been waiting for almost a month now
The update was released today. Its circulating rather slowly though, very few sidekick users have received it.
That’s what I heard, its taking a while bc the update was in its first stages, they still fixing some bugs here and there. I’d assume I’d take a month, maybe 2 for the update to fully roll out to all users, I guess you gotta do what you gotta do and wait haha
everyone will be recieving their update by aug 1st .
well thats what tmobile told me .
They told me august 31 If it dosnt get here in the next 1 hour imma freaking… call them back
August 31 sounds more reasonable. Maybe they’ll start rolling the OTA August 1 and everyone should have it by August 31, that sounds to me like what’s going to happen, hope the wait is worth it
I’m soooooo happyy. Can’t wait.
wtf . why isnt the update for the slide . its a sidekick as much as any sidekick is ???
small screen ? SO WHAT !
it deserves as much as an upgrade as the LX does .
this is bullshit . tmobile is recieving a complaint from me and other sidekick slide users !
woww! is the update for all sidekick lx’s or is it just for the new future lx’s?
Its for all sidekick LXs. and the newer LX’S already come with it, I think. 🙂
Man the slide is garbage. Garbage phones don’t get classy upgrades. Its like buying a v6 charger and wanting all the horsepower and coolness of a hemi. The upgrade kicks ass and I am happy to have a real sidekick not that bullshit slide
Hahaha the slide is like the bastard child of sidekicks. The slide sucks,
Anywho, I hear more and more people are getting the update, excited!
Lmfao if ã³ want a upgrade throw da piece of shit slide away and get an LX but I heard if ã³ go 2 settings den go 2 network status den press da mena button and M and where it says bytes received once dat number get to 12.5m ã³ will get ya update
Aim: luivee03 holla at me nikka!!
i just got my update like 2 seconds ago and its still updating..
cant wait for it 2 finish
Ahjdshjajka anyone got the update?
Has anyone heard if the Slide has any chance at all getting the update???? Yes it has a smaller screen but it does have more memory and the same operating system….It came out at the same time too…I picked it over the LX because it seemed to have the same functions and was smaller with a better build. I just wish they would at least offer some sort of compensation like a major discounted upgrade if they are not giving the slide the update…
the only reasons why I think they won’t do the slide is bc its cheaper[100 bucks but still cheaper than the lx] and bc the lx is somewhat more popular than the slide, who knows maybe with time they’ll give the update to slides, in my opinion the slide is more of a chick phone isn’t it? Like its all small and whatnot, haha if you see it this way the lx is like a subaru and the slide is like a beetle, hha
just got my update today…for some reason I got it twice though…but im not complaining
does anyone know for a fact that an OTA update is coming out for the SK Slide?
I mean I’ve heard things but I those are rumors..
I want to know if anyone knows for a fact..
Thanks.
Actually…. I have a Sk Slide and I am able to receive and see videos I’ve never been able to do this.. Idk if it was an upgrade or if it had something to do with my settings. Anywhoo my sister has the Lx which I’ve updated for her the videos are very small so I don’t understand why the slides are not able to record also? If the slides can watch received videos why can’t we record as well? I look at the playback of an Lx video and the playback of an slide video and they both are slowish and the same size !! So I think the slides should get an update as well its only fair! Why can’t we atleast get the spell check thingy or the copy images from web browser type thing come on now!! I’m goin on strike! Lmao aim me …
Nellynellz25
Am able to see received videos that people send to me is what I mean by seeing videos on my slide ALL YOU SLIDE HATERS… SUK ONE… I LOOOVE MY SLIDE ITS A TEN WITH OR WITHOUT THAT UPDATE…. haha Wait. I’m Kiddin Please Update slides…
Am able to see received videos that people send to me is what I mean by seeing videos on my slide ALL YOU SLIDE HATERS… SUK ONE… I LOOOVE MY SLIDE ITS A TEN WITH OR WITHOUT THAT UPDATE…. haha Wait. I’m Kiddin Please Update slides… shooot spent nearly 300 on this dam phone which I will never spend that much on a phone again! I am not rich!! Lol I better get somthin!
I bet they might upsate the slide, but after all lx’s are updated and all the bugs and whatnot are fixed, so HA! We are getting it first! Haha the slide sucks!!!!!
Haha just because the LX got the update first doesn’t mean its better than the slide. The LX got it first because they needed to test the update on something. I think the slide update is gonna be a little bit better because they’re going to be able to improve any little mistakes
🙂
That’s cool then because i still think we should get some type of update for slides and its funny that People still don’t Believe me when i say My Sk Slide is able to receive videos am i the only one able to see sent videos on my slide?? Idk i thought that was kinda cool =)
Aim- NellyNellz88
Yahoo- Ginnelle2cute
Dam y0. Its august 10 alredy and I still haven’t got my stupid update. All my friends got it and im like wtf. Do I gotta do sumthn special to get it or juss keep waitn =/
Its aug 10, wtf..still no update
ugh, i havn’t gotten my update either! wtflipp! >_<
Fuckkkkkkkkk I want my update
Ok 4 all u in patient lx users….dis is how 2 get the update faster!
U restart ur phone then when its on don’t sign in to anything…internet..messages..aim…nada! Then click the top left button go into settings click network status The click the left top button + M…….u have 2 get 12M or more bytes and the u wait a few mins and u got it! Its better 2 do it at nite wen the network isn’t bein used as much….ps..the G7 has 2 keep goin so it could reach 12M….repeat is again if doesn’t work the 1st time….
I still haven’t gotten mines 🙁 wtfrikk
That 12m thing is just a myth
Um no its not…I did it 2 mine a couple of friends and it works!
Well listen at your theory, repeat again if it doesn’t work, well eventually it’ll work but not bc of the 12m, anywho,
the trick work’d for me to .
wether its real or that’s when i was just suppose to get it idk .
but it work’d for me & most of my friends .
but it requires A LOT of patience .
oh & its 12.4M not 12M .
You said it, patience, haha
nobody knows okay . stop hate’n on lx’s cause yall bought those horrible slides .
don’t worry i had one to now i have a lx .
because the slides are horrid . nobody knows so stop asking .
why don’t you call tmobile .
Who’s hating on lxs? I have one
And yeah slides suck,
And tmobile has nothing to do with the update, its all Danger’s responsibility
BLAAAAH BLAAAH BLAAAH HATER HATER HATERS…. SLIDES ARE THA BEZ I LOVE MINE REGARDLESS… BETTER QUALITY PICTURES AND LOUDER SPEAKER ETC… AND MINE CAN RECEIVE VIDEOSS… BUT CAN’T RECORD THAT’S THA BEST PART.. DON’T BELIEVE ME?? GO TO MY YOUTUBE VIDEO…. TYPE IN “SiDEKICK SLIDE PLAYING VIDEO”
AIM-Nellynellz88
Dang, mad slow though but still cool,
Haha lolz at your obama background haha cool stuff
lmao who cares lx’s could play video before the update too & they take better .
hands down .plus it gotta flash .
so nobodies hate’n i mean you just got what you paid for . lol .
& wth i had a slide its not that much louder . lol .
so find all the perks about the slide & i bet you the lx will still shit on it . lol .
Ok? That didn’t make sense but okay haha
Ahhhhhh this update better be worth the wait
the sidekick slide is not a real sidekick. Its a cheap imation made by motorola therefore you won be getting the update.
I have a Sidekick lx since new years when I got it, and the update is sent RANDOMLY to those who have the LX, don’t worry you will get it, and yeah I’ve seen the update and its much earier to look at your ims and such(:
Wtf im fuccin tight… almost erbody n my hood got dey update except 4 me nd about 3 otherz datz bs… i only got 1M nd i gotta wait until i get 12.4M smmfh i cant fuccin wait until i get dat shit though…. ~swift~
I got the update about a week ago and it seemed to slow my phone down. I even deleted unwanted pics & texts to free up my phone a little bit…is anyone else having this problem?
Hmm do a soft reset, that usually helps when your phone is slow,
Soft reset: @+1+0
no but mt battery runs down faster .
Sorry to say, but the slide is discontinued! Yes, they’ve stopped making it so whatever is left is all they will sale! So the slide/lx war can end because obviously….the lx is better!
So yeah…so slide update will happen kiddos!
Alrite its the 18th and I stillllll have not gotten the update. I bene patient but now dis shit getting me tite. Wat can I do?
Youtube “forced sidekick lx update OTA” watch the video, is pretty much turn off your phone and wait turn it off and wait, at first I though it wasn’t gonna work but its true the whole wait til 12.5m thing does really work
I got my update, but it’s taking forever to actually update. all i see is the “jump button” in the middle of the screen, just after a power up. Any ideas on how long it takes to update? (NOT how long it takes to get the update)
That’s not normal, hah mine took like five mins, you get the update(3 mins) and thenyour phone restarts(2 mins)
hmmm that’s weird though
PLEASE HELP!
Okay I need help.
I have the Slide but I want to upgrade.
Should I get the Lx or the 2008 Gekko?
Get the lx,
Why?
How is it better?
I got the Gekko :]
Its awesome and way better than the Slide :]
yooo guys,
its a random time update don’t panic ya super G
is here.
DADADA DING DING DEDE
YOU CAN’T TOUCH THIS LALALA =====>
<<<.<<< its a lx update lalaalla
we are mercinaries lol
Any one else have the Sidekick (2008)?
I want to put videos into my SideKick but the videos need to be 3gp and I don’t have a video converter.
So if you can email me some movies or music videos or something that would be great 🙂
My email is hxckiller@tmail.com
Thanks :]
the sidekick slide needs to get a update soon so we can also have videos..
update has to be sent. now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, so I been hearing that people found a way to hack utube on the sidekick lx. They somehow got java flash player. Is that possible? If anyone knows how could they post it here? That wuld be GREAT!
Awww shyt I widh I could get on youtube,
That would rock ballssss
If anyone knows how post it por favor : )
Yall need to update the sidekick slides asap
I know how to get youtube vids on lX but i will Not tell… baaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Fine don’t tell, ill figure it out myself….
I wanna know about the youtube thing 2 plz
how do i change attachment settings so that i can see large attachments on the slide?
through email on my phone it says attachments too large to be sent to device but is still attached to your original message? how can i change dis? and be able to see the pictures like i was able to do before?
Ok, first of all: The only reason the Sidekick Slide will NOT be getting the update is because it has no video playback system inserted in the first place. For some reason the LX came built with and integrated video playback system that was never used. (Most likely due to a very rushed release date) I don’t know if this was for expirimentation or something, but I do know that the OTA lx users received only activates this system, as well as adding software like video recording. So for you slide users, unless Danger surprises us all I doubt any update will ever come for you and your Sidekick Slide. Sorry.
But secondly, For all the people who are so madly trying to receive info about if the Sidekick will ever be able to stream videos from youtube, the answer is no. Sidekicks use a connectivity called EDGE…..correction* 3G Networking. (An update was sent that switches all sidekicks to the 3G connection) You might find yourself wondering, “The Apple Iphone uses 3G networking and can stream videos from Youtube….Why can’t the Sidekick?” It is simply because you have to remember that the Apple Iphone comes with a Youtube compatible video player already built inside. (Notice Youtube is an app, instead of a website) The Sidekick does not have this. A 3G connection trying to stream videos from a site on the World Wide Web (MAAAAJOR Conection) would take years to do- maybe about a second of the video loaded every ten minutes. Plus, there would most likely be an extremely large amount of connectivity errors and bugs to be worked out, and who wants to go through with that?
If you ask me, I say you’re much better off using your Sidekick LX’s video capture system to record videos on Youtube. Kinda lame but, it’s much better than sitting around waiting for the oh so great and wonderful non-existant update to arrive.
Hope I helped, maybe answered some questions. – Matt
And second, Nellz doesn’t even have an LX- (if you look through the page the user continuously rants about how it can “receive videos on the slide omg”) So don’t fall in love with the “I know how to get Youtube vids on lX” crap that’s being put out. Trust me, you will all live if your phone can’t ever have Youtube capabilities…..That’s what computers are for.
Matt don’t come on here tellin me what i do and do not have. I never said i had an Lx.. I have a sister and a cousin who both have Lx’s.. And i am really good with phones so im always hooking them up i already put many youtube videos on their phones so don’t tell me what i do and do not have because u do not know me or anything about me.. Kaay? So buh bye..&& HAPPY NEW YEAR…
– CAN EVEN MKE A YOUTUBE VIDEO ABOUT IT BUT IM NOT WAISTNG MY TIME.. THANKS..
DOES ANYBODY IN HERE WANT TO SELL THERE SIDEKICK LX FOR 100 POUNDS AND A SIDEKICK 3.
EMAIL ME ON: lil_jay_jay@live.co.uk
FOR MORE INFO!
THANKS
That makes no sense the slide should have the update also it came out after the doofy lx
Yo any of you guys on here heard of any updates for 2009 and is there any way to get that old update back in august 2008 for video recording cause I bought this phone october 11 and doesn’t have the video recording and thanks. Email me at ad253650@tmail
I want my up dat know pleas….lol
Gabriel I just got mine at 8:30 p.m. U.s. Time, finally I got it it was 6 months late though, but the update is cool you can finally record stuff and download apps.
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