Samsung Sidekick 4G Retractable Car Charger for

I got this car charger about 6 months ago to charge my Sidekick 4G and I can't say that I've been very impressed with its performance. The first one I got only worked sporadically; I'd plug it into the cigarette lighter in my car and the charger would light up with a blue light, but half the time when I plugged the charger into my Sidekick nothing would happen...no charge, no indication that it was doing anything at all. Then other times I'd plug it into my phone and it would charge just fine. I never figured out what was causing it to only work some times and not others, but having a product that only works half the time is not very useful.

After a few months I dropped it by accident and it broke in half (not a very strongly made charger) so I ordered another one, hoping this one would charge the phone reliably instead of just half the time. However, the new one will not charge it at all. I haven't gotten it to work with my Sidekick even once. Again, the blue light comes on when the charger is plugged in, but nothing happens when I plug it into my phone. I borrowed two other cell phones with micro USB charging ports (a standard flip phone and an HTC Desire) and tried this charger with those phones and it worked perfectly fine and charged them completely without any issues. But then I'd plug my Sidekick in again and I'd get no charge at all. I borrowed a friend's car charger and tried it in my car with my Sidekick and it charges it just fine, so I know it's not my Sidekick or my car's cigarette lighter that are the problem here.

I ended up trading this charger for my friend's car charger since this one works for his phone (the HTC Desire) and his works for my Sidekick, but this charger is not a reliable product. I have no idea why it will charge other phones but not the Sidekick; you'd think with the name of this product specifically naming the Sidekick 4G as the intended device to use it with that it would actually work with that phone. I gave it two stars because it does work, just not with the phone it says it's supposed to be used for. Also, I had previously ordered another retractable car charger on Amazon early this year for under 5 bucks which stopped working the same day I got it, so I guess this one is an improvement over that -and at 10 bucks, this costs a lot less than the 38 dollar car charger sold at my mobile carrier's store that looks exactly the same, so it's still not a huge loss if the thing turns out to be junk. Bottom line: if you've got a Sidekick 4G and want a car charger for it, buy something else.