On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 10:17, Craig wrote:
the cool little phone/PDA gadget Martijn showed us.
Which phone was this?
That was a Danger Hiptop, sold in the US by T-Mobile as the SideKick, and by various other carriers. Disclaimer: I currently work for Danger.
It looks a bit like a PDA. It has a flip-around color screen and a querty thumb keyboard, can do email, AOL instant messaging, web browsing, calendar, games, and more. Adam was particularly keen on the Terminal client that can do ssh; I could log into my linux box at home from the pub. It's also a phone, and you can send SMS. There is a small plug-in camera available, which you can use for mobile blogging etc.
It uses GPRS to synchronise its data continually with server-side storage, and you can use a normal web interface to access most of that data -- it's handy to send longer emails from a full-size keyboard. This also means that if your device gets stolen/lost/broken -- conect to your account again, and all your data is there, completely up-to-date.
Now for the bad news: It's not available in the UK.
I've appended some relevant links for your perusal. If you have any questions, mail me off-list.
-- Martijn
Company: http://www.danger.com/ Community: http://www.hiptop.com/ Photo Blogging: http://hiptop.bedope.com/ A US review: http://reviews.cnet.com/4505-3127_7-21169039.html?legacy=cnet A US retailer: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000A0AZC/104-9778731-6843916... A european carrier that offers them: http://www.eplus.de/hiptop/