At the turn of the millennium, three men formed Danger Incorporated, which went on to create a smartphone perfectly positioned for its time. Those men eventually
wound up at Google... after one of them
founded Android. But what became of the T-Mobile Sidekick, their stylish swiveling phone? After an illustrious life filled with
fame,
fortune and
failure, the Hiptop met its end today. Today, Microsoft and T-Mobile
will shut down the Danger servers for good, leaving existing handsets without the push email and cloud services that once made them indispensable to the teens, tweens and businesspeople who used them day in and day out -- leaving the Android-powered
Sidekick 4G to fan the remaining embers of the brand. Join us after the break for a video celebration of Danger's pop culture phenomenon, and head on over to
Geekwire for a brief history of the iconic device. Now, if you'll excuse us, we've got a little water in our eye.
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