Microsoft to start restoring lost T-Mobile Sidekick contacts this week, photos and other content later

On Sunday evening Microsoft issued a statement regarding its continuing efforts to restore the lost T-Mobile Sidekick data that many T-Mobile customers have been dealing with for well over a week. The full statement can be read below:

The Danger / Microsoft team is continuing to work around the clock on the data restoration process. We apologize that this is taking so long, but we want to make sure we are doing everything possible to maintain the integrity of your data.

We continue to make steady progress, and we hope to be able to begin restoring personal contacts for affected users this week, with the remainder of the content (photographs, notes, to-do-lists, marketplace data, and high scores) shortly thereafter.

This data restoration effort is only necessary for customers who lost data from their Sidekick devices. We appreciate your ongoing patience.