Danger Press release:

The program will enable Danger’s mobile Internet platform to deliver innovative solutions that extend MSN services.

Palo Alto, CA — April 4, 2006 — Danger, Inc., a mobile Internet software and services company, today announced it has joined the MSN Mobile Developer Program, which provides broad support for independent software vendors and other developers to build innovative solutions on the MSN network of Internet services. These resources will allow Danger to extend services such as MSN Messenger to its mobile consumers through Danger’s mobile Internet platform.

“Having the support and assets of the MSN Mobile Developer Program behind us will help make our next generation of mobile solutions even more attractive and feature-rich for consumers,” said Mark Fisher, SVP of Marketing and Business Development, Danger, Inc. “We’re excited about the opportunities that this program will open up for our development teams.”

Launched in July 2005, the MSN Mobile Developer Program delivers extensive information, tools and expertise to help participants successfully design, develop and market new solutions that extend MSN services to mobile devices.

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April Fools. You know we wouldn’t be able to resist it, right?

April is almost on us here, and still no news. With all the people that said the cat remote was going to hit the streets in April, it will be interesting to see if it actually does! Shall we start guessing the actual date it hit’s the market? I’m thinking June 26th. hehe

We have heard some reports that pictures FROM a hiptop 3 in the wild have been posted to some popular moblogs on the web. Stay tuned as we investigate more….

After finding out that MC Hammer has a Sidekick and that he moblogs from it, some people are saying that he is on the super-secret celebrity list of people who (have/will be getting) a Sidekick 3. Could this pic be of him on one of the prototypes?

We’re not sure where the cat being controlled by this cat remote is, but we’ve got some new pics for you. It looks like these were recently leaked on Howard Forums, mobilehipster, hiptop.com (removed by mods), and probably elsewhere. Looks like we’ll be seeing a Sidekick III soon as these look like they could be a finished production device. At first look it seems like it is going to be a little thicker than the Sidekick II. No official word on features, specs, etc. But here are some more rumours we’ve heard:
Upgrades:
Edge/Wi-Fi
Detachable battery
Mini sd card
Music player
Video
Instead of the scroll wheel there is a ball.
It is slimer and no rubber bumpers.
Special catnip storage slot.

Chat about it here…

Today marked the first day of the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, which runs till Feb 16th. Danger has two booths registered there, and it is rumoured that one is in the Audio section of the congress. Could this be the announcement of the Sidekick III? (They don’t seem to have a section for “Pet Control” so it’s hard to tell)

In addition to the exhibition, there is the GSM Association Awards on Feb 14th with categories such as

We can’t tell if Danger is in the running or not, but we will definitely keep an ear out to see if they win anything. Anyone out in Barcelona this week?

-thanks to “p” for the heads up-

Update:
Some Guy Says:
February 13th, 2006 at 1:17 pm

I hate to burst everyone’s bubble but the “rumor” that they have an “electronics” booth and an “audio/visual” booth comes from some guy who looked at the list of exhibitors for the 3gsm world conference and say the prefaced letter for the two booths Danger has. E and AV. E doesn’t mean electronics. Inside the buildings they are ordered into arbitrary sections A, B, C, D, E, F, etc. AV doesn’t mean Audio/Video, it just means the booth is along the Avenue (The AV is given for all booths along the Avenue. For more info, look at the actual floorplans at the 3gsm world conference site.

As to the question, “Why would Danger be there if not to show off another device?” I can think of one good reason- there is no better place to make contacts and try and woo new carriers (particurally European carriers).

We recently received the following question and answer between a hiptop3.com reader and someone who “works for a company, that noes der stuff.” Believe what you will.

>> When will sk3 be out?
“May-april 2006 around spring season”

>> Will it have music?
“Yea its gonna have other features other data, don’t really noe specific stuff”

>> How much music?
“Don’t know but should support mp3”

>> Will it have bluetooth?
“Yes it will, should be up to date with other devices, and should have memory stick, wait he told me it will have a memory stick, yea dats right”

>> Better camera?
“More advance camera, and should have mp3 capabilities bcuz what they said is it suppose to be up to date with other devices”

>> What bout razor sidekick?
“September 2007, it will be released”

>> Does the sk3 look like the one in the picture?
“Yea it does”

>> Will the OS/jump screen look the same?
“Should be, same format and jump screens”

>> Will the internet be faster? Better?
“Internet, and should be more advance”

>> Will it have EDGE?
“maybe, not really sure, I’ll ask

>> What about flash? Will it have flash?
“I don’t know”

>> Will it support video?
“Pretty sure it will have video.

>> Video camera?
“Only video recording, I’ll need to look that up”

It’s been quiet lately… almost too quiet. Maybe because NDA’s are being put into full effect right before a release? When do you think we’ll see the release of the sidekick 3? Put your guesses in the comments and we’ll see who ends up guessing right!

This just in, the internal codename for the next generation Sidekick 3 is “CR” as in “Danger CR”. Just like the Danger Sidekick II’s codename was “M1”, we’re amazed at the creativity involved. 🙂 Our source unfortunately did not know what the CR stood for, as he had overheard it in a conversation with Danger developers.