What phone does Veronica Mars use?

October 15, 2006 10:02 PM

Silly question, but what is the cell phone / PDA that Veronica Mars uses throughout the first two seasons?

It looks like some kind of combo of a Blackberry and a Sidekick, and I haven't seen it anywhere else. I'm actually asking, because unless it's a fictional piece of tech, I'd like to get one - it looks like it has a great display and keyboard.

posted by GriffX to media & arts (4 comments total)

T Mobile Sidekick?
posted by saffry at 10:12 PM on October 15, 2006

That might be it - I'm familiar with the older sidekicks, which were more brick-like.
posted by GriffX at 10:15 PM on October 15, 2006

It is, I did a search on T-moblie sidekick Veronica mars, and it comes up in a lot of discussions that she uses the Sidekick II.
posted by saffry at 10:18 PM on October 15, 2006

FWIW, we used to have the Sidekick and it was awesome. Husband downloaded a terminal program which enabled him to ssh into our home network. He also hacked together a script to publish the photos we took with the camera to a website, too.

The screen was fantastic, and other than feeling a little bit hard against one's ear, the phone worked pretty well, too. We used it primarily for email/IM chat/web surfing, though. Our only complaint was the scroll button, which stopped being very sensitive after a few months. I see they've fixed that in the SidekicK II, though. Web browsing was also difficult (no Javascript, for instance), but I assume they've fixed that, too.

(Also, the SidekicK 3 is just being released, so watch for prices for the other model to fall.)
posted by parilous at 1:02 PM on October 16, 2006