Danger: Messaging App for the Mobile Pioneer
"Find out how Waverley developed multiple products for the predecessor of the modern iPhone and Android devices."
Find out how Waverley developed multiple products for the predecessor of the modern iPhone and Android devices.
Danger
was an integrated mobile internet software and services company (pre-iPhone) that brought voice and messaging, web browsing, and personalized services to a hand-held mobile device called the Hiptop. Later rebranded as the T-Mobile Sidekick and Mobiflip, the Danger smartphone was produced from 2002 to 2009, and the underlying technology was acquired by Microsoft in 2008. Later systems like Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android stood on the shoulders of these pioneers (Danger’s co-founder Andy Rubin had worked at Apple and General Magic and went on to found Android, Inc which was purchased by Google in 2005).
What We Delivered
Waverley and Danger followed the "crawl, walk, run" model, starting with a small team coming up to speed learning Danger's code and development processes on-site with minimal hand-holding from Danger's very busy engineering team. The Waverley team travelled from Eastern Europe to Danger's Palo Alto, California offices working on knowledge transfer, team-building and other activities to establish competence, create trust and launch the relationship. Once the team began to integrate into the engineering organization and prove its value, it grew in size and depth, working on a variety of projects.
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