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Danger Makes Free Sidekick SDK Available

Posted by timothy on from the gratis dept.

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.)"

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  1. What is it with companies and SDKs? by ObviousGuy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why can't they see fit to distribute the SDK free of charge without any strings attached? Why must they either charge you an arm and a leg for the kit or make you sign up to some sort of "approved" list of developers?

    If there's anything of Microsoft's that ought to be emulated, it's their SDK distribution policy.

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    1. Re:What is it with companies and SDKs? by gl4ss · · Score: 2, Informative

      **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.

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    2. Re:What is it with companies and SDKs? by ObviousGuy · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Yes, their development products are expensive, but the SDK itself is free and can be compiled against using any compiler from VC to Borland to gcc.

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  2. Re:What is SideKick dev like? by Wonko42 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:What is SideKick dev like? by aminorex · · Score: 2

    It does you no good. You can't get it unless you
    supply a tmail address (i.e. sign a contract with
    t-mobile).

    These games do no one any good, and just piss off
    the application developers. Why do they pull this
    crap?

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  4. Malicious Hacker by themo0c0w · · Score: 5, Funny

    I love the the classifications of developer they offer:

    * Hobbyist
    * Open Source
    * Professional
    * Corporate
    * Malicious Hacker

    Gee, I wonder if the last one flags me as a terrorist... *grin*

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  5. EEtimes teardown of hiptop by morcheeba · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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  6. Re:What is SideKick dev like? by Gortbusters.org · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Presumably.... but J2ME is taking the big wireless markets by storm. I believe even Motorola is looking at J2ME in there new devices.

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