The Danger/Sidekick data loss situation has been the biggest story of the week. Danger holds all of Sidekick user’s data in the cloud and something went horribly wrong and they lost all of that data. This has called the idea of keeping all data in the cloud into question for many people. According to Danger, there still may be hope for user to retain their data if their phone has not been turned off or ran out of battery.

Barnes & Nobles is on the verge of announcing their competitor to Amazon’s Kindle and it is rumored to have a small, color LCD that is multi-touch enable for navigation. The guys commend them for bringing some innovation to this Kindle dominated market.

WiFi Direct has been announced and it looks to be a good competitor to Bluetooth. It can transfer data much faster than Bluetooth, but it currently has no profile infrastructure and requires a lot more power. Sony Vaio X details have come out and it is a slick machine at only .5 inches and 1.5 lbs. As always with Sony products, the sticking point here is its $1299 price. Peter got his hands on the Nokia Booklet 3G and share his thoughts about it as well.

It’s been a rough week for Sidekick users (although worth noting that after we recorded this week’s show, Microsoft announced wide-scale data recovery), but we’re looking forward to Barnes and Noble’s sexy new e-book reader which is rumored to have a multi-touch LCD. We also go into WiFi Direct this week, and catch up on the Sony Vaio X, Nokia Booklet 3G (which is hitting AT&T soon), the new Sonos ZonePlayer S5, as well as getting some hands-on time with Sprint’s HTC Hero.

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