Building the Danger Hiptop: a New Mobile Internet Platform

May 25, 2007 lecture by Joe Britt for the Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (CS 547). When mobile phones became within the financial grasp of the everyman, the value was easily understood. Telephone-accessible "content" could now be enjoyed from a car, while waiting in line, or from a table at a restaurant. In this talk, Joe discusses several key aspects of the platform's development and shares the design philosophy applied by the team. Strong belief in the importance of hardware/software integration and an organic, iterative design process were critical for success. Lessons learned at companies like Apple, General Magic, and WebTV provided the team with a context for partitioning a complex problem across hardware, software, and a powerful back-end service.

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• Computer
• science
• software
• engineering
• programming
• design
• application
• Joe
• Britt
• Danger
• hiptop
• mobile
• phone
• communicator

[lupabuatchannel]

Your Video Is Very Useful Sharing When mobile phones became within the financial grasp of the everyman, the value was easily understood.

[grunder20]

Props to the speaker, Joe Britt, who made an excellent presentation.

[thebigfootme]

good job stanford!

[agapitoflores001]

Great stuff. Nice innovation from stanford.

[born2stab]

because tmobile didn't like the name 'hiptop' that danger gave it.

so they rename it.

[louiievuitton]

how come in diffrent places its called hiptop and sidekick?

[undestructible55]

do you know how to unlock the hiptop side kick so many people have had this problem,not one person has fixed or tried to help.... i paid 250 dollars for a phone that dont work :(....

[born2stab]

1, lx isnt coming out in australia because its not 3g

2, slides are not bad, they just slide, some people like that

3, it will be swivel screen cause more people like that

4, it is very unlear whether telstra will release the new hiptop/sidekick.

[stevo351]

man im in australia and am still waiting for the LX! i reckon the slide are shit phones hence why im not buying one. do you think the new one will be slide or flip?

[tyrone2003]

Sidekicks suck!!!!!!!!!!