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Sharp To Make Danger Hiptops
Danger Close To Deal With Second Handset Partner
Danger yesterday announced they will most likely announce a second manufacturer partner before the end of the year. The company would not reveal or hint at the new partner, ... read
Danger Adds Support For Java Standards to Hiptop
Danger will add support for Java MIDP 2.0 and CLDC 1.1 to the next Hiptop OS, version 2.3. In addition to running applications specifically designed for the Hiptop (which ... read
Danger To Add Java To Hiptop
Danger last week announced that it has signed an agreement with Sun Microsystems to license J2ME™ technology. As part of the agreement, Danger will soon launch products that ... read
Hiptop II Approved by FCC
The successor to the popular Hiptop device by Danger recently received FCC approval, resulting in the public disclosure of previously-elusive photos of the device. The company first revealed the ... read
FCC Approves Stripped-Down Sidekick
The FCC today approved a stripped down version of the Danger Hiptop. The model, PV-150, has a Sharp model number in-between the Hiptop II and the 3. It will ... read
MMS Coming To Danger hiptop
ucp morgen, a European provider of mobile messaging solutions, today announced a software licensing contract with Danger Inc.. ucp morgen is delivering MMS components of its mobile media platform ... read
Danger Files for IPO
Danger is seeking to raise $100 million in cash in an initial public offering. Danger, which pioneered the T-Mobile SideKick, said it will use $7.2 million of the raised ... read
Danger Makes New Sidekick Official
Danger today formally announced the first complete redesign of its popular Hiptop device, and announced that T-Mobile USA will offer the device this fall as the Sidekick II. Improvements ... read
Danger, RIM Demo Color Devices
Danger demonstrated a color-screen, tri-band version of its Hiptop device to potential European customers last week at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes. The company expects to have the ... read
Microsoft Uses Danger to Form New Mobile Team
Microsoft completed its acquisition of Danger today, and said that it will use the company's know-how in client software to power Microsoft's new Premium Mobile Experiences (PMX) division. PMX ... read
T-Mobile To Buy SunCom
Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of T-Mobile USA, has announced it will buy regional carrier SunCom for $1.6 billion and $800 million in assumed debt. SunCom, like T-Mobile, operates ... read
Microsoft Acquires Danger
Microsoft announced today that it is going to acquire Danger for an undisclosed sum. Microsoft will fold Danger into its mobile division. No timeframe for the purchase was ... read
FCC Greenlights 3G-Enabled Sidekick
Documents seen on the FCC web site show that the agency recently approved a new device from Sharp that has support for 1700MHz AWS spectrum on board. T-Mobile uses ... read
T-Mobile Launches Sidekick Consumer Handheld
T-Mobile USA introduced the T-Mobile Sidekick across the country today. The highly anticipated Sidekick is an all-in-one device that offers a unique form factor and feature set targeted at ... read
T-Mobile Launches Color Sidekick
T-Mobile USA today launched the highly anticipated color version of the T-Mobile Sidekick™, boasting a new 65,000-color screen, AOL® Mail functionality and new monthly service options. The device is ... read
Sanyo Shopping Handset Operations
Sanyo is reportedly in talks to sell off its handset business. Despite mild success in Japan and the US, handsets are still a loss maker for Sanyo. They are ... read
T-Mobile and Microsoft: Sidekick User Data is Gone
Today T-Mobile and Microsoft/Danger admitted via its forums that this week's service outage and resulted in the loss of end-user data stored on their servers. In a statement, T-Mobile ... read
Opera Announces Web Browser For Java Phones
Opera today announced a new solution for users with Java phones who want to access the web and not just WAP sites. Opera Mini is a J2ME client that ... read
T-Mobile Pulls PDA Phone
T-Mobile has pulled the HP 6315 Pocket PC phone off its shelves until HP releases a software update for the device. The carrier did not list specific problems that ... read
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