The ultimate i-Mate Series hosts four stylish, functional, professional and “must have” mobile devices. The devices have advantageous features uncluding tri-band UMTS, HSDPA, Wi-Fi connectivity, Bluetooth, large memories, cameras, and video calling. The series includes the 6150, 8150, 6502 and 9502.

i-Mate Ultimate 6150 PDA Phone

This i-Mate 6150 allows you to get in touch whenever and wherever you want. Festures include:

• Quad-band GSM/EDGE
• Tri-band UMTS
• HSDPA
• Wi-Fi connectivity
• Bluetooth
• 2MP camera
• FM radio

With all these features the i-mate Ultimate 6105 provides the latest technology in one stylish device.

i-Mate Ultimate 8150

The i-mate Ultimate 8150 is a must have for mobile professionals. Features include:

• New Intel XScale PXA 520MHz processor
• Class 2 Stereo
• VGA camera ideal for Video conferencing
• Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 6.0 Professional
• Handsfree speakerphone
• MicroSD™ card slot

The i-Mate Ultimate 8150 features all the functionality you could ever need and is neat enough to fit in your pocket.

i-Mate Ultimate 8502

With a brand new slim line design and a range of connectivity features, the i-mate Ultimate 8502 provides everything you could possibly need in a mobile device. Features include:

• Worldwide 3.5G connectivity (supporting HSDPA and HSUPA on three bands
• WiFi
• Bluetooth 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) support allowing you to always be connected.
• Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 6.0 Professional
• Audio: Supports AAC, AAC+, MP3, Midi, AMR, ASF, WMA®
• 2.0 Megapixel fixed-focus camera with LED compensation light

i-Mate Ultimate 9502

Another device perfect to be partnered with a professional. The i-Mate Ultimate 9502 comes with a variety of features including:

• Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 6.0 Professional
• 400 MHz Qualcomm® MSM 7200™ Processor
• Tri-band UMTS / WCDMA (2100 MHz, 1900 MHz,850 MHz)
• One 2.5mm earphone jack with stereo sound
• 3.0 Megapixel auto-focus camera with LED Compensation light
• Unique sliding LCD exposes 39-key Qwerty keypad

The i-mate Ultimate 9502 is packed with functionality and is perfect for a working professional.

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It turns out that a long MMS message can crash Pocket PC 2003 and Windows Smartphone 2003 devices (via The Register) — the iPAQ 6315 and imate PDA2k are definitely vulnerable. Theoretically, this means that a malicious MMS can infect your phone, but

… even in those devices the attacker needs to guess the correct memory slot where the MMS processing code is executing and send correctly crafted exploit code. This means that a malicious MMS message will most likely only be able to crash the device, not to to exploit it.

In short, this exploit is not a major risk to most users.

NewsMobile, an italian mobile communications site, has found leaked details of i-mate’s 2007 product roadmap on an Arabic forum. Of particular interest is the i-mate JAQ4, a candybar-style PDA phone. Not too much detail on it yet, of course, but it will have the following functions: QWERTY keyboard, quad-band GSM/GPRS/Edge, Windows Mobile 5.0, 64MB RAM, 128MB ROM, MiniSD slot, Bluetooth, 2.8″ TFT 65k colour display with QVGA resolution, and integrated GPS receiver (SiRF Star III). All in a reasonable 113 x 67.3 x 19.7 mm package.

As the road to this leak has been long and filled with online translators, I’m going to reserve my opinion on this until we get news from i-mate itself.

Sorry for the lack of posts over the last few days, but poor Jill has been sicky-bad - she’s back with a vengeance though, with 3 pieces of fresh, juicy gossip for your delectation. First off, a quote from i-mate CEO, Jim Morrison. Speaking at a conference in Boston, he mentioned that the JAQ was ugly “by design” following a request from customers for a high-spec mobile device that people won’t steal - hence the unpretty design.

continue reading "i-mate JAQ - ugly by design"

Rumours have been circling blogs across the net for months on a PDA code-named “artemis” from HTC, and today images have been posted alongside a spec that boasts everything from FM radio to GPS navigation. The official name for the Artemis is the P3300 and it’s one of 4 PDAs launched by HTC. It features an integrated SiRFStarIII GPS receiver, and apparently comes bundled with the latest TomTom Navigator 6 software. It should also feature GPRS/GSM/EDGE (i.e. it’s a mobile phone too), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and all on the base of Windows Mobile 5.0. Since all Windows‘ Pocket PCs technically come with an MP3 player (Windows Media Player) HTC have chosen to make the P3300 different by adding an FM radio according to the HTC website. Set to be HTC’s first dedicated navigation PDA, the P3300 is at least something different on a market of all too similiar PDAs.

continue reading "The mystery of the (HTC) Artemis revealed"

The JasJam is official and coming to a store near you soon. Also, i-mate have confirmed the JAQ and that it is not an HTC phone, but is made by Inventec, making it a Pocket PC phone, not a Microsoft Smartphone.

So there you go….

The image above is from MS Mobiles and is of the i-mate JAQ apparently (thank goodness it’s not the JasJaq...) So specs are slim, but we know it has the all-fashion qwerty keyboard, Windows Mobile 5.0, a 200Mhz processor, and it should be Quad-band EDGE, GSM/GPRS. The memory is unimpressive at 64MB RAM and 128MB ROM with only a miniSD slot expansion. For some reason it has the old Infrared and Bluetooth combination, with no sign of Wi-Fi or even UMTS so don’t expect a European version tomorrow. it does have a 1.3megapixel camera and should weigh a neat little 160g.

The phone is being plugged across the net as “the right design gone wrong” and it’s easy to see why. Maybe they are aiming it at endusers who are fed up with using a stylus - but it isn’t the most business-user-friendly by the looks of it. If you disagree, let me know.

Remember when I told you about HTC launching two PDAs under their own brand? Well, now I have a TyTN in my hands and can give you the full spec. This not-so-little beauty is basically an updated QTEk 9100 with the added bonus of 3G. it also has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Tri-band UMTS, and Quad-band EDGE so you will never be out of touch (unless you switch it off that is…although you probably will get voicemail).

continue reading "The TyTN of PDAs"

Following on from their acquisition of Dopod, and the rumours that they are to market under their own brand, HTC have launched two 3G phones. Also, the company CEO, Peter Chou has confirmed that HTC will repace Qtek as its brand for Europe. After almost five years of selling under Qtek, HTC plan to strengthen their own position in Europe and these new phones seem to be the first step in that direction. The two 3G models are claiming to be the world’s first tri-band, 3G, Windows Mobile devices and have the catchy names of TyTN (a PDA) and MTeoR (a smartphone).

continue reading "HTC launch two 3G phones under own name"

Originally code-named “StarTrek”, the i-mate Smartflip has been on the radar for a while now. A super-slim clamshell phone - not a million miles from the Razr in looks - with two full colour screens, and a multitude of features. It weighs in at under 100g, but still manages to feature a 1.3megapixel camera, a camcorder, an MP3 player, i-mate’s interactive gaming packages and more.

It is Bluetooth compatible, EDGE-enabled, Windows Mobile 5.0 based and even has Direct Push email technology, so you can access your email, calendar and contacts as and when they happen, rather than when you check in. You can open and view attachments including Word, Excel, PDF and PowerPoint documents. So while it looks like a fashion phone it is full of everything a business user needs - and I reckon it’ll be huge. If I get my hands on one (cough cough hint hint) to test I’ll let you know how it fares. In the meantime, if I find out anymore I’ll keep you posted.