Over a week ago, many students experienced a rude awakening when powering on their T-Mobile Sidekicks. Personal data, from contacts to multimedia, was missing.
According to T-Mobile, phones can now recover contact lists.
In a statement released on Oct. 6, the cell phone maker said “Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger’s latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device – such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos – that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger.”
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