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From: boingboing <rssfeeds@spamassassin.taint.org>
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Subject: Danger Hiptop reviewed
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Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 08:01:32 -0000
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URL: http://boingboing.net/#85511986
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Date: Not supplied
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The T-Mobile Sidekick -- the first commercial implementation of the wonderful
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Danger Hiptop PDA/phone -- is now onsale and the reviews are starting to
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appear. As soon as I'm in San Francisco for more than a couple days straight, I
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really think I'm going to pick this up.
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That's partly because it costs less than half as much as its current
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competitors -- $199, compared with $450 and up for the others. In the same
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spirit, T-Mobile will offer unlimited data usage on its new, relatively
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high- speed "GPRS" network for $40 per month -- far below what a serious
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surfer would likely rack up under competing wireless-data plans. (Voice
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time is another story -- more on that later.)
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Another reason I like the Sidekick's prospects: It was designed for, and
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will be pitched to, a very different market. While vendors of the competing
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hybrids focus on "enterprise" customers -- the big businesses that are
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supposed to have deep pockets for this sort of thing (even though most
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clearly don't at this point) -- Danger and T-Mobile are targeting, in their
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own words, "Internet-savvy, primarily urban, young adults in the 18- to
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34-year-old demographic."
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I am that demographic! Link[1] Discuss[2] (_Thanks, Steve[3]!_)
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[1] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/30/BU202936.DTL
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[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/LMAtpjUTbVezf
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[3] http://www.portigal.com
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