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Danger Makes Free Sidekick SDK Available
DivideByZero writes "Turns out that Danger, Inc. has finally gotten around to making the SDK (Sign up here) available for the Hiptop (Released in the US as the T-Mobile Sidekick) - free of charge . The Hiptop/Sidekick has been mentioned previously on Slashdot.)"
**If there's anything of Microsoft's that ought to be emulated, it's their SDK distribution policy.**
not really, tried to get xbox sdk? or ms visual studio for free? the sdk's they got are add-ons to their existing products.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Uh, you need to select a state AND a city. Works fine for me.
Anyways, list price is $249. T-mobile has a $50 rebate on their site, bringing it down to $199. Like most cell phones, you can get it a lot cheaper if you shop around and/or are willing to sign up for a 12+ month contract; I've seen it anywhere from $250 down to $75, minus monthly fees.
T-mobile says they're out of stock and won't let me see what plans are available for the Sidekick, but after a quick search the cheapest plan seems to be $39/month for ~1000 voice minutes and unlimited data for 1 year. Not sure about how much data you'll get after that 1 year is up though.
I've been playing around with it. The SDK is really nice, and includes a simulator (since there currently isn't any way to actually transfer applications to the Sidekick). Everything is Java-based (J2ME), which makes things really simple. Several very nice example applications are included in the SDK, along with a very nicely-done VT100 SSH terminal application.
The SDK is quite Nice... uses J2SE and comes with a good bit of example code that is licensed BSD Style...
Its good stuff!
EETimes has a teardown of the hiptop... Engineers will get a chuckle out of finding the part that won't die!! There's also a block diagram.
(hint: it's a national part on the same side as the processor)
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