10 Facts About Danger Hiptop

All versions of the Danger 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 Danger Hiptop 2 users, where the feature was not available on T-Mobile USA devices until the Sidekick LX in 2007.

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

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

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

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In Germany, the Danger Hiptop service was offered from 2003 by E-Plus which included a flat rate tariff.

Danger Hiptop2 has two speakers; the phone speaker built into the D-pad, and a speaker on the back of the unit for sounds, alerts and speaker phone calls.

For Hiptop development, Danger has its own proprietary APIs, which are a subset of J2SE with their own extensions.

Danger Hiptop introduced support for Java ME, the Java language optimized for mobile devices, to its OS with the release of OS 2.

The Danger Hiptop Developer Key is a special security certificate that is provided by Danger Hiptop that enables the device to be used as a Development Device.