Danger Hiptop

The Hiptop is an early smartphone from the U.S. producer Danger. Among the features include only GPRS telephony E- mail reception, a web browser, an instant messaging client and server terminal adapter ( SSH). A special feature of the system is that many data and, if media files are not, as usual, stored in the device, but over the wireless network on the servers of the service provider. Hackers took advantage of this peculiarity in 2005 and a security hole in order to hack into the account of Paris Hilton and therein to publish stored phone numbers and photos on the internet.

History

In Germany, the Hiptop was (also known as Sidekick, the marketing name of T-Mobile) sold since 2003 by mobile operator E-Plus together with an internet flat rate. The improved successor Hiptop 2 was available from April 2005 in Germany E-Plus. The new version differs from its predecessors mainly through a built-in camera and better processing, which was often criticized in the old version. The Hiptop 2 was available as a Sidekick II, however, in contrast to E -Plus with volume tariff with 30 MB free data instead of a flat rate since July 2005 with T -Mobile. However, this rate until the end of 2006 with a flat rate was comparable, since by then another transfer volume was not calculated.

Since 2006, a flat rate for the price of 10 euros for the Sidekick T-Mobile was available.

In March 2006, E-Plus, the active marketing of the Hiptop 2 officially.

In December 2006, T -Mobile Hiptop 3 under the name Sidekick 3 before. It differs from its predecessor, including through a navigation ball instead of a navigation control dial, a built in MP3 player and the possibility of memory expansion through a mini- SD card slot.

As of November 2007, the " Sidekick Slide " was sold in the United States. Shortly after the release of the Sidekick Slide in the U.S., it was due to technical problems, removed from the market, but offered later. It is the first device that Motorola and not, as the previous models, was built by Sharp.

This also appeared in the United States already in October 2007 Sidekick LX was not published in Germany, as well as the Sidekick previously published as long ago as ID.

The end of 2009 the service was discontinued in Germany. This lost all German users their data, such as Photos, contacts, e- mails, including e- mail accounts - if they no longer had the power. The data were available before hiring on a site of T-Mobile, to the left to download the data.

The main character in the video game Midnight Club: Los Angeles has a T -Mobile Sidekick.

Veronica Mars, the protagonist from the detective series and Wallace Fennel, another main character from the TV series, both have a sidekick.

Hidden features

There is a game called snowboard that on the About screen with the key combination Shift Menu (Alt ) 8 can be invoked, it is important to note that this one has set the English keyboard layout. At the German T- Mobile Sidekick does not have to be changed to English key layout to activate the game.