Report from the field in Santa Monica
(7:56am Pacific) The incredible Rockstarr is spitting hot fire from the line in Santa Monica this morning! She got there about 6:30am and says the line is so big that she’s worried she might not get one! She hooked us up with some pictures, and sent her brother to the front of the line to get a few more. We think he should not be allowed to get a Sidekick 3 since he took pictures at the lowest resolution. But to give him credit, at least he got these before they kicked him back to his place in line.
If anyone else is waiting in line, let us know and send pictures and reports! admin@hiptop3.com
UPDATE (10:38am Pacific): Rockstarr is about 50 people away from “the tent where you get the wristband to wait in line again.” She estimates that about 700 or so people are there.
UPDATE (11:12am Pacific): Rockstarr has her wristband!
UPDATE (12:09pm Pacific): Rockstarr has been recognized by some Tmobile and Danger guys! Apparently they’re reading hiptop3.com at the store in Santa Monica! A big shoutout and thanks to the Danger and TMobile employees dealing with all of us! (psst, Danger, looking to hire someone to do support any time soon? I’ll be in the Bay Area in a few months hehe)
UPDATE (1:13pm Pacfici): SUCCESS! Rockstarr is driving home in the shockermobile with her new Sidekick 3!
Final Update with pics (last two pics are the first pics taken with her Sidekick 3!)
June 28th, 2006 at 10:13 am [ Quote ]
1st!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow jjust a consession stand?
June 28th, 2006 at 10:16 am [ Quote ]
kwl 2nd
June 28th, 2006 at 10:18 am [ Quote ]
I was in line last night in NYC, got there at 9:30, called at 12:00 and ordered one by 12:30 so I got off the line and went home. I couldn’t last another 9-10hours on that line in the rain… haha
June 28th, 2006 at 10:25 am [ Quote ]
well did they get it? did everyone in line get one?
June 28th, 2006 at 10:26 am [ Quote ]
amazing… glad we are net savvy and swiped ours online
although itd be cool to make a morning out of it if you had nothing better to do. I can wait till friday/saturday for mine
June 28th, 2006 at 10:28 am [ Quote ]
Haven’t gotten it yet.
All you “savvy net shoppers” have fun waiting until Monday
June 28th, 2006 at 10:35 am [ Quote ]
haha eh.. i don’t think i could wait in line for hours i’d have to use adam sandler’s remote to get first in line
June 28th, 2006 at 10:40 am [ Quote ]
Im hoping to get mine by Friday because Friday afternoon im going to Vegas, so yeah hopefully just hopefully i might get it!
June 28th, 2006 at 10:44 am [ Quote ]
AHHHH i ordered mine over the internet like 20 mins agoo….i cant wait!!!!!!!!!!
June 28th, 2006 at 11:09 am [ Quote ]
I ordered mines at 12:21, and got express shipped on it. I called ups, they said that I should get it by thursday! So everything is good!
June 28th, 2006 at 11:12 am [ Quote ]
I ordered mine by phone at like 8 this morning, i tried to order mine at 12….. my dad fell asleep while the people were on hold…..i didnt know what to do when they asked for the credit card number haha
June 28th, 2006 at 11:13 am [ Quote ]
i ordered mine about 12:30am so by friday i should be getting mine.
June 28th, 2006 at 11:13 am [ Quote ]
I ordered mine over the phone and should recieve it by Friday. Yay! Does anyone know where they are being shipped from? Like what part of the country?
June 28th, 2006 at 11:14 am [ Quote ]
Got an email from a guy who works at Google in NYC:
“you get yours yet?
lines in nyc [...] are hundreds deep.”
June 28th, 2006 at 11:31 am [ Quote ]
Mannn it looks really hot outside there. Ahaha =D s0×0rZ for you guys!
June 28th, 2006 at 11:33 am [ Quote ]
Yo the SK3 does have picture messaging https://support.my.t-mobile.com/knowbase/root/public/tm23116.htm?A2L.SERVICE=TipsAndTricks just incase that dont work….if u go to mytmobile an put the SK3 as ur device an go to the FAQs part it has questions about pic. messagin
June 28th, 2006 at 11:38 am [ Quote ]
They ship from Lagrange, GA….i asked a rep. to confirm it and she said yes…….
June 28th, 2006 at 11:40 am [ Quote ]
yo, question- i already ordered my phone this morning, but if u dont order it today will it go into backorder? any idea on how many they have made so far?
oh yeah, nd wats the deal with the mini SD card, im not very good with electronics or anything, so u can only have mp3 on ur phone with the miniSD? Oh, one more thing i forgot to ask the tmobile person when i called but, do we just transfer our symm cards form our old phone to the sidekick or does it come with its own?
June 28th, 2006 at 11:44 am [ Quote ]
i called tmobile at 855pm pac time and she stayed on the line with me till 9:05 when it was 12:05 est. it was preety crazy i could hear all the other reps yelling at eachother to see if it had been released yet. She told me that the phones were comming from their warehouse in georgia and might get shipped out this morning but at the latest thursday
June 28th, 2006 at 11:50 am [ Quote ]
U get a new sim card at least they told me I get one
June 28th, 2006 at 11:53 am [ Quote ]
i talked to the rep and he said most likely for this existing promotion there will be no sim cards on it since you can just transfer your sim card from your old phone to the sk3. he said by any chance slips in there then just keep it as a replacement.
good question where are the shipments coming from.
June 28th, 2006 at 11:53 am [ Quote ]
You can save MP3’s and pictures on it, a sim card will be included in the box but you don’t got to use it. Just transfer your sim card from your old card from your old phone to the new one.
June 28th, 2006 at 12:21 pm [ Quote ]
From earlier post “She told me that the phones were comming from their warehouse in georgia and might get shipped out this morning but at the latest thursday “
June 28th, 2006 at 12:38 pm [ Quote ]
Its a bazillion degrees.
June 28th, 2006 at 12:42 pm [ Quote ]
Wow! Thanks you guys! They’re shipping from Georgia? Sure makes me wish I lived in the South and not CA
June 28th, 2006 at 12:43 pm [ Quote ]
I just don’t feel right losing 12 hours of my life I’ll never get back waiting in line for a cellphone… don’t get me wrong, I want one as much as anyone else… but yeah, I ordered online, and I’m ok with that. I can wait a few days haha
June 28th, 2006 at 1:27 pm [ Quote ]
I hope i get mine on friday….i liv in NyC
June 28th, 2006 at 1:52 pm [ Quote ]
I live 2 hours from LaGrange…I really hope I get mine tomorrow!!!!
June 28th, 2006 at 2:10 pm [ Quote ]
yes georgia! im in FL
June 28th, 2006 at 2:35 pm [ Quote ]
awwwwwwwwwwww i want mines! does anyone have any good bribes i can tell my parents to give me one now and persuade them to know i will get the two A’s in both summer school classes and brobe them into getting it for me before that… PLEASE HELP!
June 28th, 2006 at 3:14 pm [ Quote ]
Has anyone been able to track their phone yet form UPS yet???
June 28th, 2006 at 3:18 pm [ Quote ]
nope… the package has to be scanned by UPS in order for it to show. From what I’ve been told, mine has departed the warehouse, but it’s yet to be scanned.
June 28th, 2006 at 3:22 pm [ Quote ]
So I just got back from the NYC location. The day started out wet and cold. I got there later that I wanted (by no fault of my own) at 7 am. When I got there my place on line was half way around one side of the block. But soon the rain stopped, it got warmer, security guards, T-Mobile and Danger executives surfaced and the increasing crowd made my spot in line look not so bad. One Danger executive was showing off his SK3 to the crowd. His had a cool Star Wars skin on it. The store (which opened at 8 but didn’t start selling until 9) had 1000 devices to sell, and by the looks of the crowd that grew to around the entire block, they were gunna run out before everyone got one.
Z100, the local radio station showed up at 9 am and handed out fliars, which advertised a party of sorts with food and drinks and a basketball player on hand. They did give away tee shirts, and Vitamin Water, but it became apparant that by “food” they meant “gum”. A basketball player (I forget who) was supposed to be with them but I didn’t see him. Not that I would care, the only celebrity I was there for was the SK3. The radio station (which was supposed to stay until 12 but left at 11) gave away 2 SK3’s for free. It was just my luck that I happened to be close to the door and the radio station at this time. To get one for free they asked 2 trivia questions. The first was “How many megapixels does the camera have?”. Everyone knew this one, but the abnoxious loud guy behind me won it. The second question was “Percentage wise, how smaller is the SK3 than the SK2?” I blurted out the answer before the DJ even finished asking the question, but for some reason one of the radio station’s employees thought the hot girl in front of me answered first and so she won it.
So I’ve had it since 11 am (4 hours in line-not bad). It’s an amazing device. I haven’t fully played with it yet. I have just done some standard personalization. But its very noticably smaller and lighter. The opening pivet of the screen seems more violent, but bot necissarily in a bad way. The buttons are the best to date. I don’t know what they’re made out of but they FEEL like semi hard platic and the clicking noise they make is not much louder at all than that of the 2’s. The noises made by the opening of the screen, call/end buttons, etc are different. The trackball is great. And yes, it’s a ball. I’m not going to get into details on the philosophy of “what does it mean to be a trackball?” but its a sphere in a socket that fully rotates. It feels sensitive, but that is an illusion. It is no more sensitive than the old trackwheel. It’s really great. As we know, the shoulder buttons are further in the device. But they are not made out of rubber. For some reason I had the illusion that they still would be. It also feels more like a phone. Of course the long time SK users have probably gotten used to their devices “feeling like phones”, but this one is even more comfortable. Once your phone activates and you connect to Danger’s servers, your pictures, notes, email, AIM info, and contacts transfer over. NONE of your previous ringtones OR applications transfer over. However, you get a message saying that while your old ringtones and applications need to be re-downloaded, you will NOT be re-charged for them. But I was looking through the catalogue and none of my old ringtones were available. I only downloaded 2 applications ever, the Calculator and AOL E-Mail, both of which were free. The Calculator is there and still free, but I dont see AOL E-Mail available at all. This is a little discouraging.
On a side note, it came with a SIM card and I have no idea what to do with it.
I applaud Danger’s concistancy. The SK series is a great one because of its great easy to use OS and attention to detail (like how rolling the wheel/ball during a call makes your ringtone mute but still vibrate). When the SK1 upgraded to the SK2 there were not a significant amount of changes, however they were vast improvements and made the SK2 a must have phone. Similarly, there are no vasp improvements from the 2 to the 3, but I appreciate the new features. And in my opinion, it is the best looking one to date. I can’t imagine it looking any sexier. It is another must have phone. Congratulations Danger, I give the SK3 a standing ovation. I’m gunna go hybernate now and discover all of the other cool little details my SK3 has in store for me…
June 28th, 2006 at 3:41 pm [ Quote ]
I’m already tired of waiting lol
June 28th, 2006 at 3:45 pm [ Quote ]
that ***** whats her name night rider rockstarr or whatever is ugly
June 28th, 2006 at 4:01 pm [ Quote ]
Lol yea she looks a lil ruff
June 28th, 2006 at 4:02 pm [ Quote ]
about shipping
generally items get scanned upon departure(departure scan) and then get scanned once they reach the next leg of the trip(arrival scan) and then get scanned like this until they arrive at your door. a package does not go from the warehouse to your door, it could stop at several points and be reloaded and rescanned several times at different facilities depending on where you live. The last arrival and departure scan would be at your local UPS facility, where it is sorted and put on a local truck for delivery. So not seeing a departure scan generally means it hasnt left the UPS FACILITY yet.
That means that the item most likely HAS been picked up from their warehouse and taken to the first sorting facility, where it is waiting to leave. So I would safely say those who havent gotten their tracking updated(which I think is all of us, still) still have their sk3s at the georgia UPS sorting facility. If you live in the south, chances are it will only have one or two other stops besides your home, which would be your state, and then your local UPS facility. anywhere else it might take an extra day, it might not.
good luck!
June 28th, 2006 at 4:06 pm [ Quote ]
Subject: The Best SK3 Story Yet
Location: NYC
Basics: So i wake up at 8am like oh **** i overslept i need to get outta here and go pick up my SK3…i was completely positive that i was not gonna get oen and even went online just to ensure they still had them on the net in case i needed to order one….so i end up not leaving my house till about 1pm due to the fact i figured it wa sold out and i wa scalling the NYC location all morning but it was always busy…anyhow so i get there around 2-230 due to traffic on the deegan and cross bronx expwy…i pull up to the store and see about 30-40 people waiting and even then i wa sliek damn theres stilla line…i may be screwed but the fact that there is a line obviously meant there were sitll sidekicks to spare…i dropeed my ***** off in front of the store to wait dorve aorund the corner and illegally parked ran to the store gave my ***** the keys and said go move it somwhere ill wait…i recieved my little red star stamp and then somoene came up to em saying who is paying witha credit card i said me…and they let me skip[ the whole line and i wa sin and out of t-mobile in less than 5 minutes…waited a total of 7 minutes…yup 7 minutes exactly outside and spent 5 minutes inside…12 minutes in and out…my girl didnt even get to aprk the car i was ready to go…at approximately 2:40pm EST they had sold 650 SK3’s leaving only 350 remaing after the purchase of mine…now im sitting at home and my damn computer doesnt recoginze the frekain sk so i cant put music on it…but im waiting for it to finish fully charging so i can ghost with it…anyhow…if anyone knows what i should do so it doesnt come up as a unkown device on my computer please email me at wujigga2000@aol.com and let me know how i can get a dirver or whatever it says it needs otherwise imma have to go load my **** at someone elses house holla thank you
-K.
June 28th, 2006 at 4:09 pm [ Quote ]
I called last night well this morining about 1:40 and upgraded my SK2 for the Sk3, It will be in my hands Friday! It went so smoothly, and well.
June 28th, 2006 at 4:23 pm [ Quote ]
Only one or two stops? Man……this is the first time ill ever admit to it, but damn it feels good to live in alabama ;D ahaha
June 28th, 2006 at 4:39 pm [ Quote ]
Wow thanx a lot for the info I live in md so hopefully it will get here soon
June 28th, 2006 at 5:27 pm [ Quote ]
You would be ugly if you were standing directly in the sun for 4 hours too.
Wait… you’re already ugly anyways.
June 28th, 2006 at 6:27 pm [ Quote ]
I called tmobile and they said if you ordered last night should be there friday and I live in az so its traveling quite far
June 28th, 2006 at 6:40 pm [ Quote ]
haha nice rockstarr
ckillackam burrrrn hahaha weeee
i grrrr at my having to wait till july 10th-ness!!!
June 28th, 2006 at 6:55 pm [ Quote ]
Here’s a report from NYC, I got there at around 6:10 am and I was like the 85th person. But was it hell being out there. The rain would not stop pouring down and this guy behind me would not shut the F#*k up he kept talkin and talkin. So then my friend called me and asked how was I doing out there because he’s on his way to get the phone also, so I told its aight and to come through. So he comes at around 8:20am and he peeped one of the representitives pulling his phone out repeaditly for no damn reseaon. So we both plotted to take his Phone but the security came to squeeze the line 2gether. So we chilled and waited I have to say the line moved pretty quickly and we were out of there in no time. But I’m mad that when i put my sim card in the sk3 my Games and ringtones didnt come up, so I dialed 611 and told them my problem and they said oh no you would have to purchase ringtones and games for the sk3. You dont know how mad I was. because I spent so much money on apps for the sk2. But what made me kinda happy was how clear and crisp the mp3 player is. all i need now is bigger memory. But it was a journey for a phone that is so overrated.
P.s. Is it me or Is the sk2 camera better than or is exactly the same as the sk3 cam?????????
June 28th, 2006 at 7:03 pm [ Quote ]
lol rockstarr is heaaated, at least u got ur sk3 tho.
June 28th, 2006 at 7:20 pm [ Quote ]
Me and my friend just put our numbers in I have standard which is 7 bizz days and my friend has express his already shows up on the ups site mines dosent
June 28th, 2006 at 7:23 pm [ Quote ]
I have 2 sidekicks on my account…. I ordered 2 last night, minutes apart. I just got one tracking number showing up this second, hopefully the other shows up soon!
June 28th, 2006 at 7:27 pm [ Quote ]
alot of express people dont have tracking their yet, including me
June 28th, 2006 at 7:30 pm [ Quote ]
I ordered 2 SK3s over the phone last night for me and my gf. I was at a special 1030 showing of Superman at the time and I could hardly hear the rep on the phone but I didnt care i just wanted my SK3. The people next to me were getting so mad. Then I had this guy on the other side of me that had an SK2 and he was gettin all pissed too until I told him what I was doing. Oh well. Cant wait till Friday.
June 28th, 2006 at 7:54 pm [ Quote ]
lol hahah rockstarr yu a funny lil ho……
June 28th, 2006 at 8:02 pm [ Quote ]
I don’t have express and mines is not up yet has ne1 seen there refrence number work and they don’t have express?
June 28th, 2006 at 8:30 pm [ Quote ]
rockstarr, can u take pics of ur sk3? umm?
June 28th, 2006 at 10:11 pm [ Quote ]
Those are some hot pictures! The kick3 takes some pretty good pictures! Thats awesome, i gotta wait til the 10th for mine, but its okay, I cant wait! heheheheheh
June 29th, 2006 at 12:32 am [ Quote ]
is it true that u can’t used windows media player mp3s? if so, what should u use?
June 29th, 2006 at 7:38 am [ Quote ]
Now how about this for funny/fucked up…. The 1st upgrade I purchased, wasn’t shipped, and the 2nd one that I purchased about 4 mins later did :/, so only one sidekick is coming today :/
June 29th, 2006 at 8:53 am [ Quote ]
awww that sucks! Okay I have about 3 people i know who got a sidekick 3 yesterday, they say there really isnt any thing major about it for people to be going crazy over it. You cant have custom ringtones ( u have to buy the crappy ones from the catalog) and its not that big of a deal that u can switch out your background LOL And there isnt really in real use for the bluetooth, specially since you cant really have custom content LOL
Oh well I still want mine july 10th lol
June 29th, 2006 at 10:05 am [ Quote ]
Honestly, you probably should have a received a beatdown. Pretty inconsiderate.
June 29th, 2006 at 10:45 am [ Quote ]
hey youngeurow
i chose express shipping and i my reference number doesnt work either
June 29th, 2006 at 8:34 pm [ Quote ]
I meant for ringtones. I want to know how much they charge? Also, if I get it, will they charge me a nominal fee for everytime i get contacted or just a one-time fee for using it?
July 1st, 2006 at 3:39 pm [ Quote ]
It’s a one time fee.
Usaully for 1.99