The Hiptop 2, 3, Sidekick iD, Sidekick 2008 and Sidekick LX were are all bogus by Sharp Corporation in Japan and advised by Danger. All versions of the Hiptop were developed in abutting affiliation with T-Mobile, and aback the absolution of the aboriginal T-Mobile Sidekick we accept apparent abounding new Sidekicks released, forth with altered partnerships. Danger provides the Hiptop OS software and casework for the Sidekick. These cover a account of downloadable software applications, email hosting, and burning messaging. The Hiptop was awash by T-Mobile in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Austria.
T-Mobile Sidekick (Danger/Flextronics)
Released on October 1, 2002, the aboriginal T-Mobile Sidekick was altered compared to added phones at the time. All the Sidekicks had featured “Menu”, “Back”, ”Jump” and added keys attainable even if the buzz was closed. The T-Mobile Sidekick aswell featured a apostle which was acclimated for accent sounds. The angle jack served a bifold purpose, as it was aswell acclimated for the accent camera. The awning on the T-Mobile Sidekick was a connected LCD.
T-Mobile Sidekick 2 (Danger/Sharp)
Danger and Sharp partnered calm for the Sidekick 2 that was appear in 2004. On the Sidekick 2 the D-Pad was confused to the larboard ancillary of the Sidekick 2, forth with aggregate up/down and adeptness on buttons on the basal of phone. The Sidekick 2 aswell featured a VGA camera, forth with the accession of page-up/page-down buttons on the top and basal of the annal wheel. The line-by-line scrolling affection is notable to the Hiptop cast of articles and is not a affection of a lot of added multi-function corpuscle phones.
T-Mobile Sidekick 3 (Danger/Sharp)
2 years afterwards the absolution of the Sidekick 2 Danger and Sharp partnered up already afresh for the T-Mobile Sidekick 3. Appear in July 2006, the Sidekick 3 was abate than the antecedent Sidekick versions, barometer 130 mm x 59 mm x 22 mm. Unlike the Sidekick 2, all the appearance on the Sidekick 3 backward the same.
T-Mobile Sidekick iD (Danger/Sharp)
The Sidekick iD is a abate adaptation of the Sidekick 3 and was appear in April 2007. The Sidekick iD was aimed at the adolescent crowd. To abate the amount of the Sidekick iD, Sharp removed some of the appearance of the Sidekick 3, including the 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth capability, and the media player.
T-Mobile Sidekick LX (Danger/Sharp)
The Sidekick LX was appear in October 2007. It came in two altered colors, Midnight Dejected and Espresso Brown. The LX included a wider, higher-resolution screen, the adeptness to cast the awning with a button on the top of the phone, upgraded keyboard, dejected LED affection lights on all four corners, a Micro SD agenda aperture with a 128 MB agenda included, and an adapted operating system. On July 16, 2008, T-Mobile appear a bound copy Tony Hawk Copy Sidekick LX, which included video recording.
Sidekick Accelerate (Danger/Motorola)
T-Mobile appear the Sidekick Accelerate in November 2007. The Sidekick Accelerate offered abounding of the aforementioned appearance and casework as every added Danger accent and an amend to Danger’s latest OS version. Aswell included were upgrades such as 128MB RAM, 225 MHz TI OMAP 850 processor and a additional apostle which is amid on the aback of the device. On November 16, 2007 T-Mobile abeyant sales of the Sidekick Slide, afterwards Motorola accepted that some accessories would aback powered off if the accelerate aperture was opened or closed. On November 21, 2007, Motorola declared the failures were triggered by poor array contacts. On December 6, 2007 the Sidekick Accelerate was already afresh accessible for purchase. The Sidekick Accelerate was clearly discontinued on August 8, 2008. It was accessible for auction afresh on December 12, 2008, aback afresh T-Mobile has already afresh discontinued the advertise of the Sidekick Slide.
T-Mobile Sidekick 2008 (Danger/Sharp)
In August 2008, Danger and Sharp partnered up already afresh to absolution the T-Mobile Sidekick ’08. This Sidekick had bigger appearance such as a top resolution 2-mega pixel camera, video functionality, and AIM. The Sidekick ’08 aswell went aback to the hinge Qwerty architecture and had the adeptness to change the faceplate and backplate.
T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009 (Danger/Sharp)
Danger and Sharp partnered up to accomplish the endure T-Mobile Sidekick, the Sidekick LX ’09 which was appear in May 2009. The new Sidekick accurate 3G and HSDPA, forth with assorted changes to the accouterments which included a 3.2 inch F-WVGA display, 854×480 resolution and a 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus and flash. Support for Facebook, Twitter and MySpace was aswell added to this Sidekick, acceptance notifications to be displayed in the notification bar. YouTube alive playback is aswell became supported. The Sidekick LX 2009 offered synchronization with Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange.
Sidekick belvedere discontinued
T-Mobile appear in July 2010, that the Sidekick LX 09 and Sidekick 2008 would no best be accessible through T-Mobile. In September 2010, Danger aswell notified its development association that they would no best be accepting submissions for its appliance store. This was followed by the cease of the Danger Developer Zone forums and any accompanying archives.It has been appear that Microsoft will abandon Danger’s billow account on May 31, 2011 afterwards that date, Sidekicks will no best accept admission to any abstracts services, about the articulation casework will still action so the Sidekick can still be acclimated as a phone.
The Approaching of the Sidekick
Since the alpha of this year we accept heard rumors of an Android Sidekick advancing to T-Mobile in the future. Well, T-Mobile has adapted their website to cover a bastard blink at their new accessible Sidekick. The T-Mobile Sidekick 4G fabricated by Samsung is accounted to be appear ancient this bounce with no audible date as of yet. It will be the aboriginal Sidekick to accept a blow screen, Android 2.2, 1GHZ processor, and bifold cameras (3mp in aback and foreground adverse camera for video chat).
Danger, INC. and Android
Andy Rubin is both the co-founder and above CEO of not alone Danger, INC but aswell Android. He came to begin Danger, INC. aback in 2000 with Matt Hershenson and Joe Britt. In February 2008, Microsoft acquired the aggregation and Andy Rubin went on to advance Android, which was after acquired by Google and led to Rubin’s accepted position with the close as VP of Engineering. Aback both Danger, INC. and Android were co-founded by Rubin it is not absurd that we will see abounding absorbing Android/Sidekick phones in the future.
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