Sidekick on AT&T?

I'm with AT&T, but I really want a sidekick- but they're T-Mobile. So is it possible to buy a phone from t-mobile and then switch it over to at&t? I heard that you can get an unlock code, but doesn't it get really bad reception when you do that? Any info is appreciated! thanks!

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It's possible to unlock a Sidekick, but you would only be able to use text and voice on AT&T. The data plan, which includes web browsing, instant messageing, and email will only work on T-Mobile.

You could also get the Quickfire. It's not exactly a Sidekick, but it's very close. I'm not entirely sure what people like about the Sidekick, but outside of the design it doesn't do anything that a Blackberry or some other smartphones or feature-rich phone cannot do.

The quickfire doesn't look like it's worth the money. It looks like a feature phone that's dressed up to look like a smartphone :-)

I really wish that microsoft makes the Sidekick carrier agnostic. It would be nice to have the option to use it with any carrier.

You can unlock your cellphone you just gotta buy something do it.
and my sidekick slidesays 'Pick carrier tmobile or at&t' so I think u can use it with ur sim card.!! if not thebn unlock it
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Originally Posted by papy2000

I'm with AT&T, but I really want a sidekick- but they're T-Mobile. So is it possible to buy a phone from t-mobile and then switch it over to at&t? I heard that you can get an unlock code, but doesn't it get really bad reception when you do that? Any info is appreciated! thanks!

You can use a Sidekick on AT&T, but not all the features will work. You will be limited to voice and text. To do this, you must first unlock the device, and, no, it won't bad reception because it's unlock. That's a myth.

Running a sidekick without a data plan is a real pain in the ass.

You have to be very careful about always saving new contacts to your sim card and then importing them into your phone book. If the battery on the phone ever dies... everything in memory is wiped out, all your text messages all your contacts, everything. So make sure that you save it all to the sim card if you want to be able to restore it.

Apart from how awesome the keyboard is, the phone is really pretty terrible. They did a pretty good job of designing the phone so that it would be a total failure without the data plan. My advice would be to just try and find a Blackberry curve.