i-Mate JasJam
Mtekk has a review up of the i-Mate JasJam and writes, “I really can’t express just how happy I am with the JasJam. I haven’t even had it a week and the improvements to my life are amazing. For example, this afternoon I ironed my shirts for work and I managed to watch last weeks episode of NCIS streamed over my network, which is a great deal better than listening to the washing machine spin as I normally do. … I really want to give the JasJam full marks as it truly is brilliant, however, two things need to happen for me to do that. Firstly, HTC need to apply pressure on Microsoft to vastly improve the usability of their BT stack or switch to the Widcomm stack. Secondly, I wish the screen slid to the left so that the JOG wheel was fully usable when the screen was deployed.”
Smarthouse has a review of the iMate JasJam and is not at all impressed with the smartphone: “Thiis iMate organiser and phone was released late in November 06 to run on the new Telstra G Network however it does not work well with the new Windows Vista operating system which was also released to the Enterprise market in November 06. … At the time of writing this review we are 4 weeks away from the consumer release of Vista and the new Microsoft Office Suite. iMate, has had access to developer kits for the new operating system and Microsoft Office for at least 6 months. To release an enterprise organiser that runs on a Microsoft operating system with any support at all for a new OS and above all a brand new piece of software for communicating with a PC is appalling. Making matters worse is the appalling iMate web site which has no reference all to new ActiveSync technology or the Windows Vista operating system. This is not only one of the worst organiser and phones I have reviewed it is a device that badly needs to be taken back to the drawing boards and re worked so that the so called functionality actually works.” Link.
