Sidekicks get fashionable makeover

The T-Mobile Sidekick is an iconic messaging phone, and its profile is further elevated as T-Mobile invited 11 designers to give the Sidekick 3 a thorough makeover. Who’s who of the fashion world were invited, including Betsey Johnson, Diane von Furstenberg and Tommy Hilfiger. Their results are somewhat like their clothing line – some of them were drop dead gorgeous while the others looked like something even a 5 year old would think as ugly. All these phones were sold off in eBay auctions, where Reed Karkoff’s entry for Coach fetched the highest bid at $1,009 while David Neville and Marcus Wainwright’s design for Rag & Bone stood at the opposite end of the spectrum, raising a mere $212.50 in bids.