I always thought it was hilarious that a company called Danger lost everybody's data. The connection to Microsoft only makes it better.

> I always thought it was hilarious that a company called Danger lost everybody's data. The connection to Microsoft only makes it better.

Cursed marketing.

Besides the fact that we didn't have any real money to promote phones at T-Mobile (and I think we were the only US carrier with the hiptop) -

Would you believe that the first hiptop came out the same week as 9/11?!

So it was this phone that was arguably two-ish years ahead of the iPhone, but nobody seemed to know it existed, until it got some traction via sheer word of mouth. Everyone who used the HipTop basically wouldn't go back to anything else at all. The HipTop had that 'addictive' quality that the iPhone had. It was nothing like the Blackberry, where people largely used it for a single killer app.