In a move US wireless carrier T-Mobile called temporary, the company today halted sales of its Sidekick mobile phones today after the company and data services provider Danger lost Sidekick users data such as phone contacts and calendar information. Danger is a subsidiary of Microsoft.
As of Monday afternoon the likelyhood of recovering data is not good for those that turned off their units or did a hard reset. Sidekick users, and there are 1 million of them in the U.S. are urged not to turn off their devices since more data might be able to be recovered in the next couple days.
Regardless of how bad this turns out, it's a bad PR hit for T-Mobile, Microsoft and Danger.