I’m tremendously excited about the future of the Smartphones - I’ve been using one for the past two months,
I am gadget mad and have owned my fair share are Palm, Pocket PCs and mobiles to be able to form a fair opinion.
I purchased my i-Mate Smartphone the first day they came out. Overall I am very pleased with the product.
The i-Mate Smartphone is above all a great mobile phone based on Microsoft’s Windows Powered Smartphone operating system. You can expect to find all the basic and advanced phone functions on this Smartphone, but what makes it the smartest phone available on the market today is the Windows Powered software that lets you E-Mail, Instant Message, surf the Web, listen to music, play games, and much, much more. Having Microsoft Windows as its operating system is an ease to sync information from Outlook to Smartphone and back, synchronization is limited to Contacts, Calendar, Tasks and Inbox.
The display is a crisp 65k colors in TFT screen LCD, but there’s no font smoothing, though, so jaggies in the fonts is immediately noticeable. Watching videos encoded exclusively for the SP is great! Its only bogged down by the constant turning off backlight -- if only Microsoft added a backlight feature in the Windows Media Player version of the Smartphone 2002, watching videos is more pleasant.
The keypad layout of the SP is easily adaptable and quite easier to use contributing to its large buttons and neat configuration. The voice recorder and volume control buttons are located to the left of the Smartphone which is a little cumbersome to use for right handed folks.
The ability to turn the radio (signal or network) off is a plus, since going to an institution where one should turn off their mobile phones and using just the PDA features of it is definitely important. The speakerphone feature is a must if having both of your hands full.
The Secure Digital (SD) slot is also a great addition to the SAP since one can buy or upgrade memory as long as it is supported by the Smartphone.
With its ability to install user-installable applications and games, it all goes down with third-party developers to make the necessary software and Microsoft’s promotions to offer the Windows powered Smartphone 2002 to mobile phone operators -- its a great offering for business and casual users.
Overall, the i-Mate Smartphone is a neat, streamlined and simple device that the user will quickly adapt overtime.
Specifications:
Microsoft Windows Powered
Emails and Internet
MSN Messenger
Picture Messaging
Games, Video and Music
Large Colour Transflective LCD Screen
32MB ROM 16MB RAM
SD Card slot for extra memory
Triband
Conclusion:
It’s a great device and can almost mimic everything a desktop PC can do. It’s perfect and if I’m honest unless Microsoft upgrades the software, include Bluetooth and a built in camera (not that I want that), do something about Java and get a few more big operators/phone manufacturers to take up the Smartphone platform.