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Brian Swetland

In 2002, the Danger Hiptop launched (as the T-Mobile Sidekick). It was an always-on mobile device with email, IM, and web browsing, running on T-Mobile's GPRS network. A sort of proto-smartphone with a 240x160 black and white display and great keyboard.

A coworker of mine set up a group blog thing for folks to share the launch day experience -- I just found my backup of this:
frotz.net/hiptop/sidekick-laun

Also, screenshots of the 1.0 UI:
frotz.net/hiptop/screenshots-1

#danger #hiptop #sidekick #launch

In 2002, the Danger Hiptop launched (as the T-Mobile Sidekick). It was an always-on mobile device with email, IM, and web browsing, running on T-Mobile's GPRS network. A sort of proto-smartphone with a 240x160 black and white display and great keyboard.

A coworker of mine set up a group blog thing for folks to share the launch day experience -- I just found my backup of this:
frotz.net/hiptop/sidekick-laun

Brian Swetland

Back when Danger was in stealth mode, pre-launch, the website just showed a random teaser flash animation. I found the SWF files and through the magic of WASM and something called Ruffle (ruffle.rs), you can now experience these in all their rotoscoped glory!

frotz.net/hiptop/danger-animat

#danger #animation #hiptop

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