#SIDEKICK PHONE FULL#
I’m impressed with the way that Danger has filled a void in the market and created mobile technology that is smart, affordable and user-friendly.”Īnd not too long after release, HipTop/Sidekick ended up becoming one of the first phones to truly popularize and democratize thanks to it’s lower than normal price at the time, the idea of a phone being more than something to just make calls with.įirstly, it had a full HTML web-browser instead of a WAP one that most devices had back then that was text only, based on SMS, and just trash, really. Within a few months after announcing the device, even Steve Wozniak, one of the original founders of Apple, joined the board of directors saying, “It reminds me of Apple’s early days and the focus on building products easy enough for anyone to use. Now, since your desktop was on your desk, your laptop was on your lap, and thanks to the style back then of hip mounted phone holsters, it got the name hiptop from assuming you might carry it on your hip. The idea behind it though was that it was to be a computing device to help you use the internet anywhere, not just at home–a relatively ambitious concept back then.
Now, the Sidekick’s original brand name was the HipTop (and it was even still sold under that name in other regions) and it was the brainchild of ex-Apple engineers Andy Rubin, Matt Hershenson, and Joe Britt when they started the company Danger, Inc (named for the robot in Lost in Space’s famous line of “Danger, Will Robinson”). Needless to say, the Sidekick kinda stood out. Now, when the original version launched back in 2002 under the brand name Sidekick, the top selling phone in the world that year was this, the Nokia 6100. This is the Sidekick 3, the third generation of the iconic device and probably the apex of the Sidekick line (and the only one I could find on eBay that worked if I’m honest).
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