Want to see some actual video of the celebs at the T-Mobile Sidekick 3 Release party? E! has got you covered with this little spot. Even AC Slater had to get in on the Sidekick 3 action. Try not to lose your lunch when they blab on and on about the Hollywood gossip.

We were pointed to this auction on ebay where a Sidekick 3 went for $4,050!!! We’re hoping this wasn’t a legit bid. Who would pay $4gs for a phone they can get for a couple hundred dollars in a few days?

Some more emails from our inbox for your reading enjoyment. Some are informative, some are funny, some we’re just not sure what to make of. Oh, and everyone asking us about prices, where to get a sidekick 3, details on the upgrade program, etc; just keep your pants on, as soon as we have the info, it will be posted. Now, the emails:

I am a t-mobile employee and the sidekick 3 just
showed up om our internal website yesterday. It looks
great but according to the specs it doesnt have edge,
and its a domestic tri-band. It does however have the
bluetooth and a mega pixel camera. the music player is
called sonic boom and it has four themes named liquid,
madison, rodeo, and surface, and it supports another
type called static. It doesn’t support hifi ringers
from t-zones but thereis a danger download catalog. A
tip is that it doesnt support windows media player
files. it comes with a carrying case, a lanyard, 64 mb
sd card, usb cable, a gift box , sim ,card, and
everything else including a stereo headset…..so what
does this mean…this means the sk 3 will be out in
about a month or so.

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I change is a will be on july 10,06 color black and white.

(huh??)
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My uncle is a manager at a local t-mobile store in california where I live and I talked to him about he sidekick 3, i copied and printed out that memo and the letter regarding what t-mobile has told there employees to say to customers asking about the SK3. When I asked him about the SK3 myself, he simply answered, “I have no idea, they havent told me anything”. But when I showed the him the printed copy of the memo and the printed copy of the memo the exlains what to say, he was shocked and asked where I got this information, of course I didnt say Hiptop3.com., I just said a friend ;). He said that most of the information on both memo’s are mostly correct and that the scheduled date for the SK3 release is around te 10th of july, but they havent gone into much detail. He did show me a paper with some finanicial and technical information, it said that the upgrade program will be avalible to sidekick 1 or 2 owners and that tey are debating whether or not to allow an upgrade for T-mobile To-Go sidekick owners. The retail price of the sidekick is 399.99 and with upgrade should be free (not sure though). I will try to get back the memo paper and scan it to the another e-mail. I just have to get my hands on it again.l..(oh boy).

Hope you found this info acurate!!
Thanks!

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Seeing as to how there’s no recent new news….and I’m bored out my mind at work I thought it be fun to inform you all that last night I received and email pertaining to the upgrade to the sk3. I imediately showed all my buddies and outrage soon followed (I got the last ota before them also) anyhow you’ll have to take my word for it cause there is really no way I can prove that’s what I dreamt of last night…

….p.s. I couldn’t get the phone # to upgrade because t.s. Alberto woke me up at 5 a.m.
-x-

(re-read the last sentence in the first paragraph before you go crazy in the comments

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To whom it may concerm,
I was at a mall in Chicago today(Lincolnwood Town Center) and while I was passing one of those little cell phone stands that have reps from Cingular, t-mobile, sprint, etc and i decided to ask the t-mobile what he knew about the sidekick 3. He told me to expect it early next month and didn’t really tell me much of anything more than what we already know at hiptop3.com, but when I asked about the trade-in program, he directed me to the actual corporate store elsewhere in the mall. One of the reps there confired to me that it would be $299.99 with a new contract, and that there would be a trade-in program for the sidekick 2 owners and will probably allow a $100 discount with the trade-in. so there ya go.

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That’s all for now. Remember, if you have any (reliable or new) info and/or pictures, send them over to admin@hiptop3.com. Be sure to let us know if you need to remain anonymous and we’ll keep our mouths shut about which hiptop3.com ninja scored the info.

As much as everyone is excited about the FCC docs finally breaking out, don’t bother asking TMobile about the Sidekick 3. TMobile employees received the following memo via TMobileNews.com:

>T-Mobile frequently receives inquiries from customers interested in information about new handsets and data devices. Due to the popularity of the Sidekick, customers frequently ask about new versions of the device.
>Action steps
>Please use the following steps when addressing customer inquiries about new Sidekick products.
>Tell customers that we have no information on a new version of the Sidekick at this time.
>Do not speculate to customers about the availability of a new T-Mobile Sidekick product.
>Direct customers to www.sidekick.com, which is updated when there is new information available about Sidekick products.
>

Like we’ve always said, the Sidekick 3 doesn’t exist, it’s just an overhyped cat remote.

We’re not sure if the upgrade program will take damaged Sidekick IIs, but we think Alice might want to look into this before making any more videos.

This isn’t news in any sense, but it made us laugh and we figured we’d share it with you. “The Newest of the sidekick sereis” ?? We received the following email with this image attached:

Yesterday while i was at work, i was talking to my friend on aim, and he told me that the sk3 was up on the tmobile website. At first i didn’t believe him because of all the other fake stuff thats been floating around. I couldn’t check for myself since i was at work so he said he would use the PrtScn button that’s on the keyboard. When i got home that night he sent me the pic and i was pretty amazed because it looked real. Feel free to post if you’s like. Though it might be better then some of the crap posted lately.

To add to the amusement, this user has been banned from the hiptop.com/forums several times:
1st banned
2nd banned
Soon to be banned

After seeing this image, and reworking the layout for the site last night, we thought it would be good to have a fun little Photoshop contest. With the high res image as a source, send your creations to photoshop@hiptop3.com. We’ll post our favorites.

Grab the source image here

Entries are getting posted in this thread on our forums

Sara writes:

could that possibly be the sk3?

No Sara, that’s a dog.

Submitted by a reader simply name “hiptop 3″:

The moment we’ve all been waiting for!
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April Fools. You know we wouldn’t be able to resist it, right?