Danger's HipTop Renamed and Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 1, 2002 @03:27AM from the its-just-so-cute dept.

FireMage writes "According to this press release from Danger, their cheap, cool, consumer targeted, cellphone/PDA "convergance device", the HipTop is now avalible nationwide as the T-Mobile SideKick, as in you should actually be able to buy one today. They've even revived one of their nifty-mysterious original flash splash pages to announce it. I'm all for clever hacks, but it's nice to finally see what seems to be a well thought out product in this arena. (The HipTop was first mentioned on Slashdot and again in a review .)" I have a review unit on my desk, and am super impressed. A larger impression piece will be coming out just as soon as I have time to write it.

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Excuse me... by iamacat · 2002-10-01 04:10 · Score: 0, Troll

But why exactly is it news for nerds? There are already scores of Palm phones (Samsung, Treo) that look way better than that. Toshiba also makes a Pocket PC gadget. Did I miss an article about slashdot doing product placements now? I for one, can think about more interesting things to read than a "larger impression piece".
On the other hand, if I am missing something please educate me. Is that thing running Linux (Palm/PPC phones already run Java)? Or is it dirt cheap? There must be some explanation here...