Motorola's Sidekick Slide fleet has critical slide-mechanism flaw

Early Sidekick Slide adopters are probably all too aware of the critical flaw plaguing their slide mechanism. Reports are coming in that the new Motorola Sidekick Slide, whose namesake takes after the cool sliding screen, will intermittently hard-reset (read: total data loss), or turn off upon actuation of the sliding screen.   It seems a slightly loose battery is to blame for the sliding screen’s troubles - sliding the screen upwards jiggles the battery out of place and prompts a reboot or shutdown of the Sidekick Slide. How did Motorola let such a design flaws slip through the cracks? We’re not sure. All we know is that there are a lot of people out there that are none too pleased to have to gamble with their Sidekick Slide’s data everytime they slide that screen open. On a positive note, the data is saved on Danger’s servers, so you can just download all your saved data after a hard-reset. Come on, Motorola. A device named for the cool sliding mechanism should have had the slide-screen thoroughly tested before release. [Via: Boy Genius Report ] --- Related Articles at IntoMobile:

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