Submitted by a reader simply name “hiptop 3”:

We got an email from a reader that simply says:

Subject: Sidekick Launch party is at Plumm club in New York
Body: 2-3 weeks from now. A friend says he’s already been invited.

Gizmodo is reporting that the Sidekick II has been officially discontinued. Their source, a third party dealer named A.J. who sent in the following message:

I’m a third party dealer for T-Mobile, and after calling up today to place the weekly order for phones, I was informed that the Sidekick II has officially been discontinued by T-Mobile. They are stating a mid-June launch for the Sidekick III, and if anyone wants a Sidekick II they’ll have to hurry up and try and pick one up on the cheap before inventory dries up, as they can no longer be ordered from the carrier.

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.

Thanks to linuxgold, we have another picture to bring to you guys. It looks like maybe something out of an ad, or some sort of marketing. No clue where it came from, if it’s legit, or what. But as with all rumours, we’ll post it! hehe

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:

Yes, there hasn’t been many updates lately. There’s no decent news, and we didn’t feel like making something into sidekick 3 related news even though it’s not related. If anyone has any leads, stories, or info they want to share, please send it to: news [at] hiptop3.com