
There are two buttons on the left side of the device ("menu" and "jump") and also two on the right ("back" and "cancel"). Screens on all Sidekick devices (excluding the Slide and 4G models) slide vertically to 5 Usage by the deaf and hard-of-hearing.


The Hiptop/Sidekick became incredibly popular in the U.S. 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 II, 3, Sidekick iD, Sidekick 2008 and Sidekick LX (2009) are all manufactured by Sharp Corporation in Japan and designed, respectively, by Danger and then Danger in partnership with Sharp.

The original Hiptop hardware was designed by Danger and manufactured by Flextronics.
SIDEKICK PHONE OLD SOFTWARE
This included a catalog of downloadable software applications, email hosting, instant messaging, web proxies and a cloud service for the entire personal data on the device. Danger provided the Hiptop OS software and back-end services for the device. The Hiptop software was designed by Danger, Inc., which was located in Palo Alto, California and purchased by Microsoft for $500 million in 2008. The Danger Hiptop, also re-branded as the T-Mobile Sidekick, Mobiflip and Sharp Jump is a GPRS/ EDGE/ UMTS smartphone that was produced by Danger, Inc. The original Hiptop with revised color screenĭanger Incorporated / Flextronics / Sharp Corporation / Motorola / SamsungĢ002–2010 (Sidekick Web Services to 2011)Ĭolor (Monochrome for the 1st gen Sidekick/Hiptop)Īttachable 0.3 Megapixel (Built in for later models)
