The Danger Hiptop, also re-branded as the T-Mobile Sidekick, Mobiflip and Sharp Jump is a GPRS / EDGE / UMTS smartphone produced by Danger Incorporated ( since 2008, a subsidiary of Microsoft ) from 2002 to 2010.

Released in 2004, the Hiptop2 was introduced with Danger moving the D-Pad ( directional-pad ) to the left side of the Hiptop ( from the inside where it was previously found ), along with top-left and top-right shoulder dials, volume up / down and power on bottom of phone.

The Sidekick / Hiptop Slide offers the same features and services as every other Danger device and an update to Danger's latest OS version ( 4. 0 ).

When the Hiptop / T-Mobile Sidekick was initially released in the Fall of 2002, it was the only cellular phone to factory integrate an instant messaging client, specifically AIM.

Access to direct TTY and Relay Operator communications has allowed the Hiptop / T-Mobile Sidekick and similar devices to, in many cases, replace the use of standard TTY / TDD machines, and its dominance is clearly illustrated by the evolution of its own sign in American Sign Language, made using both hands to mimic the opening of the rotating screen.

All versions of the Hiptop were developed in close partnership with T-Mobile, although carrier-specific features were either removed or added for each carrier, such as the addition of MMS for SunCom and Telstra hiptop 2 users, where the feature was not available on T-Mobile USA devices until the Sidekick LX in 2007.

The Hiptop was sold by T-Mobile in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Austria.

The Hiptop software was designed by the company Danger, Inc. which was located in Palo Alto, California.

The original Hiptop hardware was designed by Danger and manufactured by Flextronics.

SunCom and Edge Wireless used to sell the device in some parts of the United States, and Fido was the exclusive Hiptop carrier in Canada until sales were discontinued after Fido was bought by Rogers Communications, at the end of the Hiptop 2's life.

The discontinuation was mainly because the Hiptop is a competitor to Rogers ' BlackBerry business.

In Germany, the Hiptop service was also offered by E-Plus which included a flat rate tariff.

The Hiptop was also sold in Singapore by Starhub in 2004, but is no longer available.

Released on October 1, 2002, the original Hiptop was unique compared to all other hardware versions.

Since the Telstra Hiptop service was discontinued in October 4, 2011, there are no longer any carriers worldwide offering any form of Danger data service.

These upgrades include 128MB RAM and 225 MHz TI OMAP 850 processor, as opposed to the Sidekick 3 and LX's 64MB RAM and 200 MHz OMAP 331 processor, and a second speaker which is located on the back of the device, as opposed to the Hiptop 3 and LX's reliance on the D-pad speaker for both calls and music playback.

Application developers can bypass this functionality by using the included programs in the Danger Hiptop SDK to install user-written applications to the Hiptop device directly.

The Hiptop operating system, referred to as DangerOS, is largely based on Java.

The Hiptop 2, 3, Sidekick iD, Sidekick 2008 and Sidekick LX ( 2009 ) are all manufactured by Sharp Corporation in Japan and designed, respectively, by Danger and then Danger in partnership with Sharp.

In Australia, the Hiptop device and service were sold by Telstra, until October 1, 2009.

Danger provided the Hiptop OS software and back-end services for the device.

On all Hiptops except the original, the left side houses a directional pad and on the right, a track ball ( excluding the original Hiptop ) The Hiptop 2 and Slide's directional pad contains internal multicolored LEDs used in ringers and notifications, while the 3, 2008, LX, and 2009 track ball contains internal multicolored LEDs that provide the same function.

The Hiptop line is designed to be held horizontally with both hands, allowing typing with two thumbs, similar to a Game Boy Advance or a console video game controller.

The Hiptop also featured a speaker which is used for device sounds but not telephone.

It is slightly bigger than any later Hiptop.

The line-by-line scrolling feature is notable to the Hiptop brand of products and is not a feature of most other multi-function cell phones.

Hiptop and Palm Treo units ( Treo 600 and later ) utilized a transflective liquid crystal display that worked with and without the backlight, making the IM, mail, and all other messages readable even in bright sunlight, and without picking the unit up.

In Australia it is marketed as the Hiptop Slide and in the U. S. as the Sidekick Slide.

T-Mobile has launched a network in the US operating at 1700 MHz ( uplink ) / 2100 MHz ( downlink ), and these bands are also being adopted elsewhere in the Americas.

Wireless telephony services are provided by ATT Mobile, formerly Cingular, ( GSM850 / GSM1900 ), T-Mobile ( GSM1900 ), AllTel, formerly First Cellular of Southern Illinois, ( now CDMA-only although legacy GSM850 service still operates ), Verizon ( CDMA ), Nextel Partners ( iDEN ), and Sprint PCS ( CDMA ).

For example, a bundle file for v3. 4 / 155053 ( T-Mobile Sidekick 3 ) would be denied installation on a v3. 3 / 149695 device ( T-Mobile Sidekick iD ).

* Caroline Elizabeth, Assistant Sidekick Office Manager / T-Mobile Rep.

The T-Mobile system is area / city specific.

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It is available in North America from T-Mobile, AT & T in the US, Rogers / Fido in Canada and Vivo in Brazil ( using both 850 MHz frequency and 1800 MHz.

The Sales Guys are played by professional actors Matthew Brent ( Verizon ), Scott Halberstadt ( Cingular / AT & T ), Ian Gould ( T-Mobile ), and Michael Busch ( Sprint ), who was later replaced by Adam Herschman.

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