October 2003 by  Andy Rubin  (co-founder of  Danger ), [18]   Rich Miner  (co-founder of Wildfire Communications, Inc.), [19]  Nick Sears [20]  (once VP at  T-Mobile ), [21]  and Chris White (headed design and interface development at  WebTV ) [8]  to develop, in Rubin's words "...smarter mobile devices that are more