Motorola Sidekick Slide lives!
Are there any super-smart readers out there that can tell us why that out of all the devices the production team at FOX had to choose from, they chose a Motorola Sidekick Slide to use in this season’s Prison Break? Like seriously, they couldn’t have picked anything better? For those of you not insanely addicted to PB, the Slide was used as a home brew device with a hard drive made to copy and store electronic data from all sorts of stuff– ATMs, phone calls, banking information, and even Scylla. It certainly wasn’t done as product placement from T-Mobile (read: discontinued). Maybe Scofield isn’t as smart as we thought…
it would make sense that the phone was old. If you watch the show, you would have heard that guy say several times that he spent “forever” building the device. So, the phone wasn’t in the show for fashion. It was there to steal info. And if you used a brand new phone, it really wouldn’t have made sense.
I think it must have to do with when the episode was actually filmed. It is very possible that was done several months ago. You know, in what seemed like a 4-month window that the slide was for sale.
actullt in what season 2 scofiewld an malone wer using *7700’s
wow…3 posts at exactly the same time…I must not be the only one addicted to prison break
And you gotta start proof reading buddy. See the section I have so politely correct below. Corrections are in CAPITALS.
“SERIOUSLY, they couldn’t HAVE picked anything better? For those of you not INSANELY addicted to PB (ITALICS), the Slide was used AS A homebrew device with a hard drive made to copy and store electronic data from all sorts of stuff.”
I hate to be the grammar police, but damn son!
Yeah yeah, was in a rush!
Haha actually I have never seen Prison Break. I learned my lesson from getting stuck addicted to 24: Don’t Start!
Speaking of 24, it was always entertaining watching Jack do things with his Treo 650 that were obviously well beyond its capabilities.
The guy holding the device in the picture is the one who created the device, so why is it a nice job by Scofield??
I SAW THAT! I just… didn’t know what it was. I assumed it wasn’t really product placement, since you couldn’t actually see anything lol.
Heroes soon! They always have juicy product placements.
@BG–no worries brosef, it happens to the best of us, lol
@Adam–yeah, I love 24, and it is by far the most addicting TV show every created! It might even be worse on DVD, cause when you start, you pretty much lose a whole weekend.
Hmm, haven’t seen either show. It’s tough to pull me off Food Network, Discovery Channel, and History Channel!
Good thing it was the Sidekick or else Sylla cardholder dude #1 wouldn’t have written it off as his kids’ phone when he walked in the door that night and set his phone down next to it. That damn maid almost blew it! Most intense series ever from episode 1 season 1! Can barely watch I’m so nervous sometimes. If you haven’t seen it, go rent the first season. It rivals Jack Bauer dopeness.
FOX shows have very weird device choices sometimes. On Tru Calling (short lived show, but I liked it nonetheless), the main character used my phone at the time–a Nokia 3650–for the first episode, but then later on switched to a Motorola T720i (another favorite of mine actually).
And 24 also–as if Treos could do all that! (Casino Royale also did the same type of thing showing a K850i with capabilities far beyond its capacity!)
They always use old crap on TV, most of the phones on TV shows are just props the studios snag up, at least Moto could sell them to someone, that’s about all there phones are good for.
Sorry, their phones.
I just watched this episode yesterday on my computer and I kept wondering what on earch was that device he was holding (besides its purpose in the show). I could barely see any details on it.
So was he using bluetooth or Wifi to steal the data of those Scylla cards
?
My favorite product placement was on Journeyman. The would have up angled shots of him using a motorola Q and when they went to close up down angles it was an iphone.
Probably just what the Prop Master thought his device would look like. Surprisingly enough not everything on tv is a product placement (mostly because getting the contracts done is a pain in the ass when you are trying to produce a show). Also, not everyone geeks out on tech like BGR readers. The prop person probably thought it looked pretty high-tech. It’s amazing how few people actually know what devices exist out there beyond what they own.
They used it because the Sidekick Slide is an amazing and cool looking phone, by far the best Sidekick to date (excluding the new SK’08). It’s a beast of a phone and it unfortunately didn’t really recover from the bad press it got when the first batch (and only the first batch) shipped with a loose battery connection.
There are some diehard Slide fans out there (me included), especially in the UK and Australia where the inferior LX was never brought out due to it being too clunky and having basically the same spec as the old-ass Sidekick 3. The new Sidekick ‘08 only just came out and has the same amount of RAM as the Slide which came out a year ago.
Unfortunately I’ll probably get a bunch of LX fanboys trying to slam me here, but face the facts guys – your precious LX is fragile as hell with a PITIFUL amount of RAM and a slow processor. It just has a nice screen.
Well, most semi-standardized semi-smartphones like the slide are easy enough to hack, the rule is pretty much anything with an ARM cpu and easy stuff to reverse engineer like mini usb ports, bluetooth, cheap little cameras and whatnot. I liked the little old Siemens running what looked like UIQ in Casino Royale.
@ Dark Master
dont bring the bashing on the LX and slide out of the PBD forums =D haha. pretty kool seeing a sidekick be in a show. yess slide bashers a SIDEKICK. just thought i’d throw that out there. those of you on the PoweredByDanger forums know what i’m talking about lol