The first ever smartphone that got me excited about what smartphones could do was the T-Mobile Sidekick, made by the company Danger, which was amazingly hyped up for a time in Silicon Valley.
It remains the only phone that I ever bought the day that it came out (even though I didn't really use it as a phone, but as a portable email/internet device).

Remember the recent server failure at Microsoft subsidiary Danger, which caused a 
News came today that a server failure has resulted in total data loss for 