For all those interested in who was at the Sidekick 3 party, you can check out the pics of the celebrities arriving here. Sorry, but we aren’t going to pay for the license to be able to post these images so you’ll have to check them out, watermark and all on another site.

We won’t waste words, here’s some videos of the Sidekick 3 in action:
MP3 Video – Trackball Video

The (in)famous appletech has agreed to answer some user-submitted questions for us! For those that don’t know, appletech is one of the moderators over at the hiptop.com forums. He’s got his hands on a Sidekick 3 and is ready to answer your questions. We suggest keeping your questions more specific to the device and NOT “How much does it cost? Where’s my upgrade plan? etc.”

We’ll take some of the best and most commonly asked questions and send them his way when we have a good amount.

If you have a question to submit, send it here. Please keep the ASK: in the subject line so we don’t overlook your email. We’re looking forward to putting some of the rumors to rest, so… what do you really want to know?

Here’s a collection of recent links now that the Sidekick 3 is official. Reviews, pictures, etc. will be coming out like crazy over the next few days I’m sure. If you have any links to add, throw them in the comments and we’ll add them to the list:

www.sidekickiii.com
CNet Video Review
Engadget review with pictures
Gizmodo review
MobileBurn.com’s extensive review
Seattle Times Sidekick 3 Review
We don’t have time to email everyone individually, but a big thanks to everyone sending in the links!

Remember that link we told you to watch out for awhile back? The manual for the Sidekick 3 / Hiptop 3 is now up on Danger’s site. We haven’t had a chance to go through it in depth, as we’re on vacation and rushing to catch up on all the news that happened while we were away from the keyboard. Trusty Hiptop3.com readers, let us know if you find any new info in there.

One thing we did notice is the name of the music player. While TMobile is calling it the Music Player (as we saw on the actual device this weekend), the Sidekick manual is calling it the SonicBOOM Music Player, and it looks much cooler than what we remember. Then again, when we got a chance to play with it, it was on a beach and it was dark.

The manual also mentions MMS (Multimedia Messaging for those that aren’t into the whole brevity thing). As in the past, it looks like TMobile is denying their Sidekick users the joys of MMSing, but the Sidekick 3 does have the capability.

And one last thing the manual reminded us of was the new functionality in the camera as far as increasing the quality of the photos taken. You can now set photo size, flash, exposure, sharpness, fluorescent light filtering, and JPEG quality (compression).

Let us know if you guys notice anything else of interest in the manual by posting in the comments!

We’ve received this from various sources already, but the word is that there are some additional details on the Sidekick 3 launch party.

Thanks to Daniel for catching this blog entry on Mark Cuban’s website:

I promise never to complain about the weather in Dallas again. Dang. This must be the opposite of a dry heat. I l ove Miami. Have a condo here. Love to visit. BUt i prefer not to have to swim through humidity !

Any, game time countdown 3 hours and counting. Wont be able to blog during the game, Im not going to bring a laptop to the arena. I will bring my new sidekick 3. Got an early edition. I love to play with new toys, and this one is off to a great start. Its also a great way to make the time till tip off go faster. Otherwise I would go crazy.

YOu want to say that this is a huge game tonight. But why. EVERY game in the finals is huge. HUGE HUGE HUGE.

THey are going to come out playing out of their minds. The crowd is going to be nuts. We have to be able to take the early barrage of punchs.

GO MAVS !

UPDATE:
Some pictures…

Our first evidence of marketing for the Sidekick 3 was found in a recent issue of Men’s Health (the July/August 2006 issue). One of our awesome readers caught this one and took the time to scan it in super high resolution. (Big thanks Giancarlo!) And we have our first “official” price release it looks like too! According to Men’s Health, it’s going to set you back $350. Looks like it’s safe to say that T-Mobile is only days away from the big marketing push we’re all expecting.

The text reads:
MOST TEXT APPEAL: T-Mobile Sidekick 3
We’ve been unabashed advocates of the Sidekick since it surfaced 3 years ago, thanks to its second-to-none keyboard and Web browser. The e-mail is still anything but corporate-friendly on this version, but it pushes past its ancestors by packing in Bluetooth (for wireless headsets); a miniSD memory-card slot (for storing MP3s or photos taken with the 1.3-megapixel camera); and high-speed EDGE access for faster Web browsing. $350. tmobile.com

Here’s the image (kind of big at 300k):

We know, this has nothing to do with the Sidekick 3, but we figured this was a good place to spread the word.

This poor soul had their sidekick stolen by the girl you see above. If anyone can do anything to help, please do so!

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. 🙂