Even though Microsoft claims to have been able to recover most if not all lost data for Sidekick users, T-Mobile on Thursday said it would still keep new sales of the product on hold, also continuing to list all models as “temporarily out of stock” on its website.
It remains to be seen what becomes of a number of lawsuits that were filed in the aftermath of this incident.
One of the factors that compounded the situation for Sidekick users, as stated in one of the suits, was “that Sidekicks, unlike iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smartphones, are not designed to sync locally with a user’s personal computer without additional software and hardware. This means that most users were not able to backup their data locally, but were encouraged and required to rely on Microsoft/Danger.”
While Microsoft declined to comment on pending litigation, a representative stated the company is “obviously very sorry for the inconvenience that this situation has caused Sidekick users, and we are working around the clock in an effort to recover and restore the data for any affected users. While it is still too early to say for sure, we announced on Monday that our engineering teams were increasingly optimistic.”
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