10 Facts About Hiptop

Hiptop software was designed by Danger, Inc, which was located in Palo Alto, California and purchased by Microsoft for $500 million in 2008.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Hiptop operating system, referred to as DangerOS, is one of the only Java-based operating systems.