An observant s4xton has noticed that the TMobile page for Dealer promo material is mysteriously missing any Sidekick II content. The combination of this and the multiple reports of dealers not having any Sidekick IIs to sell hopefully means what we think it means.

We’ve gotten a few reports of this. No, it’s not a sidekick 3, it’s a Helio Hero

Josh writes: I was at cingular today and one of the sales people told me that they believe the Sidekick 3 will be available for cingular! The rep went on to say this is due to the fact that the sk 3 will support EDGE technology and t-mobile as we all know, doesn’t support that. Also this speculation would have an interesting correlation with the sidekick roadmap, since they’re unveiling all these different types of sk 3s. Perhaps one is for cingular and another is for tmo! Besides, I know in Los Angeles where I live, when I first turn on my sidekick, the cingular logo shows up. Perhaps tmo and cingular have some sort of contract going on…

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Ed Note:
Anyone that has traveled out of Tmobile coverage and gotten bounced to Cingular knows that the Sidekick 2 works perfectly fine with Cingular coverage. Before the comments flood, Tmobile does support EDGE right now, so that point is at least moot. I don’t know the deal with T-Mobile, but I would think Danger would be limiting their possible revenues by only sticking on one carrier.

It’s official, at least as far as the FCC is concerned. The filings for the Sidekick III showed up on the FCC’s website. We’re not sure why they didn’t document the feline behavior modification chip, but we’re sure that’s still being kept under wraps. It’s going to blow the market open for pet control like no other device we’ve seen. The previous pics were legit (to some extent) and we now have the newest pics for your viewing pleasure. Some of the rumours that are confirmed: Bluetooth (for all you lexus drivers), miniSD for expandable memory, and a 1.3 megapixel camera. Many are assuming the miniSD is meant for expansion for multimedia playback, meaning video and MP3. This hasn’t been confirmed yet, so stay tuned for the exact details. At this point we can only guess at some of the software features based on the capabilities of the hardware. Still no release date though, but we assume it can’t be far off if this information is now public.

From Engadget

We got word of the following Paul Wall video and the sighting of a phone that looks like a sidekick, not quite a sidekick II, and quite possibly a sidekick III. Look for it around the 3:36 mark. We won’t pass any judgement yet. For all we know it could just be a prop phone. But we thought we’d at least present it to the masses and see what everyone thinks. So far some are saying it’s just a Mr Cartoon sidekick 2, others are saying the size of it is off.

Here’s the video:

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April Fools. You know we wouldn’t be able to resist it, right?

April is almost on us here, and still no news. With all the people that said the cat remote was going to hit the streets in April, it will be interesting to see if it actually does! Shall we start guessing the actual date it hit’s the market? I’m thinking June 26th. hehe

We’re not sure where the cat being controlled by this cat remote is, but we’ve got some new pics for you. It looks like these were recently leaked on Howard Forums, mobilehipster, hiptop.com (removed by mods), and probably elsewhere. Looks like we’ll be seeing a Sidekick III soon as these look like they could be a finished production device. At first look it seems like it is going to be a little thicker than the Sidekick II. No official word on features, specs, etc. But here are some more rumours we’ve heard:
Upgrades:
Edge/Wi-Fi
Detachable battery
Mini sd card
Music player
Video
Instead of the scroll wheel there is a ball.
It is slimer and no rubber bumpers.
Special catnip storage slot.

Chat about it here…

Today marked the first day of the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, which runs till Feb 16th. Danger has two booths registered there, and it is rumoured that one is in the Audio section of the congress. Could this be the announcement of the Sidekick III? (They don’t seem to have a section for “Pet Control” so it’s hard to tell)

In addition to the exhibition, there is the GSM Association Awards on Feb 14th with categories such as

We can’t tell if Danger is in the running or not, but we will definitely keep an ear out to see if they win anything. Anyone out in Barcelona this week?

-thanks to “p” for the heads up-

Update:
Some Guy Says:
February 13th, 2006 at 1:17 pm

I hate to burst everyone’s bubble but the “rumor” that they have an “electronics” booth and an “audio/visual” booth comes from some guy who looked at the list of exhibitors for the 3gsm world conference and say the prefaced letter for the two booths Danger has. E and AV. E doesn’t mean electronics. Inside the buildings they are ordered into arbitrary sections A, B, C, D, E, F, etc. AV doesn’t mean Audio/Video, it just means the booth is along the Avenue (The AV is given for all booths along the Avenue. For more info, look at the actual floorplans at the 3gsm world conference site.

As to the question, “Why would Danger be there if not to show off another device?” I can think of one good reason- there is no better place to make contacts and try and woo new carriers (particurally European carriers).

We recently received the following question and answer between a hiptop3.com reader and someone who “works for a company, that noes der stuff.” Believe what you will.

>> When will sk3 be out?
“May-april 2006 around spring season”

>> Will it have music?
“Yea its gonna have other features other data, don’t really noe specific stuff”

>> How much music?
“Don’t know but should support mp3”

>> Will it have bluetooth?
“Yes it will, should be up to date with other devices, and should have memory stick, wait he told me it will have a memory stick, yea dats right”

>> Better camera?
“More advance camera, and should have mp3 capabilities bcuz what they said is it suppose to be up to date with other devices”

>> What bout razor sidekick?
“September 2007, it will be released”

>> Does the sk3 look like the one in the picture?
“Yea it does”

>> Will the OS/jump screen look the same?
“Should be, same format and jump screens”

>> Will the internet be faster? Better?
“Internet, and should be more advance”

>> Will it have EDGE?
“maybe, not really sure, I’ll ask

>> What about flash? Will it have flash?
“I don’t know”

>> Will it support video?
“Pretty sure it will have video.

>> Video camera?
“Only video recording, I’ll need to look that up”