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Wonko42 wrote:
The source code for Danger's SSH client is included in the hiptop SDK. If you suspect it's doing something shady, why not sign up for a developer account at http://developer.danger.com...

Sadly, it appears that the developer program is being "revamped" to the point that you won't be able to compile your own SSH. I presume this was done at the behest of T-Mobile, as the business model calls for selling "applications" (games and ringtones).

So we're supposed to trust that T-Mobile has vetted all the applications offered for sale, and not be able to distribute any applications written directly for the platform except through T-Mobile's commercial process, and then we find out that their security has been compromised.

I've been a long-time hiptop user and written my fair share of applications, but with this recent double whammy, I am beginning to think that Danger and T-Mobile need to take steps to recover the promise of abundant, safe, applications for the platform. Their new "walled garden" approach is certainly leading to fewer applications, and now it looks like it's leading to less safe ones -- how could you trust a pre-compiled SSH client on the hiptop knowing what we know now?

Get yourself a cellular repeater (about $700) and install it in your house. You indicate that Cingular is fine outside the house, then a repeater would make it fine inside the house.

I bought the one from CellAntenna.com for $499 and it works quite well with my hiptop. I'm 1300m from the T-Mobile/Cingular tower, but I got no coverage inside except in certain spots; and now with it in I get great coverage in two rooms and OK in a third, at least good enough for GPRS. I'm considering upgrading the indoor antenna to one with 5dBd gain for $49, and also getting on my roof with a ladder to raise the antenna up higher on my TV pole, to get above the neighbor's hedges.

Plus the ATT tower is in the same location, so my ATTWS friends who come over report better signal too.

This device looks really snazzy and I like the jewelry, but I'm pretty happy with my hiptop, which now supports SSH for free after this week's over-the-air firmware update, and it has a full keyboard. I've written a spreadsheet and a peer-to-peer sharing app, hacked on an IRC app, and written some other stuff for it, all with their Java SDK.

This device looks really snazzy and I like the jewelry, but I'm pretty happy with my hiptop, which now supports SSH for free after this week's over-the-air firmware update, and it has a full keyboard. I've written a spreadsheet and a peer-to-peer sharing app, hacked on an IRC app, and written some other stuff for it, all with their Java SDK.

I've written flipsheet, a spreadsheet for the hiptop, in the Beta SDK, and posted screenshots. It doesn't run on the production device yet, but it will soon.

I wrote an email-to-blogger interface for my Hiptop.

It could easily be extended to use LiveJournal or any other XML-RPC based weblog because the Perl libraries already support it.

See http://hipme.com/software/blogrouter.