Before the iPhone, before Android, before webOS, the Danger Hiptop, and its task-switching Jump key, made it incredibly easy to get things done.
Before the iPhone, before Android, before webOS, a revolutionary soap bar of a phone made it incredibly easy to get shit done. The Danger Hiptop, better known as the T-Mobile Sidekick, made the internet portable and affordable like no phone before. --- Button of the Month In today’s digital age, it sometimes feels like hardware has taken a back seat to the software that drives our devices.
“There wasn’t this concept of launching a program and quitting a program, it was you can jump to the notification and just jump back to what you’re doing.” Unlike Palm Pilots, BlackBerrys, and flip phones of the era, the Sidekick didn’t kill apps when they were closed, he says — it had a “true multitasking architecture” where they kept on running in the background, connected to the internet.
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