So A friend of mine at Yahoo has a friend at Danger, Inc. and she's arranged for me to go there this afternoon and play with a Danger Hiptop!

The Hiptop (Hip-top) is the next potential 'ideal merging of phone and PDA.' Built from the ground up around wireless data transfer and phone capabilities, it doesn't have to work around an established handheld form factor, or hardware that has wireless connectivity grafted on a grandfathered OS.

I'm really excited to see what this can do in person, since a few minutes with a Handspring Treo was enough to burst that bubble.

Originally slated for a January launch, Danger and T-Mobile (rebranded and expanded Voicestream) are (last I heard) doing final beta testing and are planning on a launch in late June or in July.

I'll probably know a lot more in a few hours, but I have no idea how closed-lipped they are, so I don't know how much I'll be able to share. Hopefully it won't matter and they'll release the product in the next few weeks.