I had the opposite issue. T-Mobile coverage in my city in Scotland was great at the time (aside: it was also marketed as the T-Mobile Sidekick here, not the Danger Hiptop).
My real issue was that we missed out on a lot of the value added features that US customers got. Our app store was pretty sparse, software updates came many (many) months after US customers, and since so much data was proxied through Danger in the US we had many additional points of failure.
I vaguely remember griping about not being able to get a direct net connection during a period of transatlantic network instability. It was a bit like BIS (Blackberry Internet Service) in this regard.
I also remember the spate of high profile celebrity account hacks at the time. I think the always-on sync feature really was revolutionary but it did highlight the risk of sharing everything, all the time, with a service provider.
That said, the device was really ahead of its time. In the UK, BIS Blackberry devices were very uncommon. Sure, we had things like the Sony P800 [1] but the push service, IM functionality and world-class hardware keyboard of the Hiptop were unparalleled. And it's difficult to underestimate the utility of the RGB LED and the ability to set the notification color depending on device events.
My real issue was that we missed out on a lot of the value added features that US customers got. Our app store was pretty sparse, software updates came many (many) months after US customers, and since so much data was proxied through Danger in the US we had many additional points of failure.
I vaguely remember griping about not being able to get a direct net connection during a period of transatlantic network instability. It was a bit like BIS (Blackberry Internet Service) in this regard.
I also remember the spate of high profile celebrity account hacks at the time. I think the always-on sync feature really was revolutionary but it did highlight the risk of sharing everything, all the time, with a service provider.
That said, the device was really ahead of its time. In the UK, BIS Blackberry devices were very uncommon. Sure, we had things like the Sony P800 [1] but the push service, IM functionality and world-class hardware keyboard of the Hiptop were unparalleled. And it's difficult to underestimate the utility of the RGB LED and the ability to set the notification color depending on device events.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_P800