i-mate sheds HTC for Pocket PC Q-killer?

by Paul Miller, posted Aug 19th 2006 at 4:07PM

With info and pic originating from Hungary, you know it's gotta be good. Someone over at HowardForums just spotted this new, unconfirmed i-mate model, the i-mate Jaq, at Hungarian site PDA Mania, and were kind enough to share. Notably, i-mate doesn't appear to be relying on HTC (who has that little Q-killer of their own brewin') for the design here, and while their in-house designers might take a little while to warm up, a bit of diversity in the market never killed anyone. Also of note is that this phone purportedly runs the full-fledged Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition, allowing pen input on its QVGA screen and the software advantages that OS provides. As for the rest of the specs, the phone is a quad-band GSM, GPRS and EDGE unit, with 64MB of RAM, 128MB of ROM and a miniSD slot for expansion. There is IrDA and Bluetooth 1.2, but no WiFi, and the 1.3 megapixel camera is a bit lackluster these days, but with that QWERTY action this just might turn out to be a decent contender from i-mate.

[Via HowardForums]

Filed under: Handsets, Others, Windows Mobile, GSM, GPRS, EDGE

Tags: htc, i-mate, i-mate jaq, I-mateJaq, jaq, motorola q, MotorolaQ

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Liam Billington @ Aug 19th 2006 4:24PM

"this just might turn out to be a decent contender from i-mate."

You havin a laugh... that thing is fugly. You see devices such as the Q and the i320 which look more sexy than the excalibur.

The colour is awful, its big (even with the larger screen, they could of got it into a smaller form factor) the keys look awful, and the JAQ logo just looks cheap. Can HTC and i-mate please take some design tips from Nokia, SE, Moto and Samsung please.

While HTC make excellent form factors. The Breeze (block) and the Excalibur are just REALLY fugly. More designs like the Hermes and the Orange C600.

This looks like a load of JAQ SHI...

Neutral

Kent Pribbernow @ Aug 19th 2006 4:27PM

This is the "Mercury" smartphone device developed by Inventec earlier this year. You can find out more here...

http://msmobiles.com/news.php/4890.html

Here's a pic...

http://x.msmobiles.com/portal/images/palm/mercury.jpg

Neutral

Rich Brome @ Aug 19th 2006 5:20PM

I've seen this before. The UTStarcom-branded version is called the PPC4200. They showed it off at 3GSM back in February. It was thoroughly underwhelming, though... by far the cheapest-feeling Windows Mobile device I've ever tried.

I know UTStarcom doesn't manufacture it though, so Kent may be right about it being designed by Inventec.

Neutral

Orneta Mobile @ Aug 20th 2006 2:41AM

A design from a company other that HTC is welcome. A little competition will be good. Its been long enough since 3GSM that the build quality may have improved.

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