i-Mate Smartphone Reviews

This is very good mobile phone. battery has stand for 4 days. This is a handy phone and give attractive look to all person to person. Display is very oled. This phone price is very low.

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One of the best smartphone is I mate smartphone.Any user must be said that it good others smartphone.looking stylish and smooth and users feel comfortable.

I mate smartphone is very designable and colourfull.It features so attractive.It speed amazing to using .

Its sound quality very soft and music sound also.Not feel disguesting.It really pleasure.

Any one can be using.Children also too.

It price not highest.it price simple .All qualities people can buy it.

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I-Mate Smartphone is in looking good and smart. I am using this phone since 7 years and sharing my experience. this is one of the best phone in reasonable price. The working speed and performance is awesome. battery back up is superb. best phone. I recommend my viewers to buy this phone.

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It's a great smartphone with the flagship of imate I personally used this phone and find a great experience after using this phone.

Friends it's really a big deal and useful smartphone and it's are awesome and it's great. And it's not only a good smartphone but a friendly smartphone and style is awesome and design is brilliant and sound quality is gud and prosser is totally great.

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It has low sound quality. its sound is very harsh

After using it I found it very difficult to use with its system problem is too much

It has low model design. hate too much it's design. its low curve makes me feel awkward when u'm with my friends

It don't have any cool features

Worst phone.

Its worst to pay for this bad mobile phone

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I mate is the best site for shopping a smartphone this is awesome when I first time buy a smartphone from I mate I am scared oh no I don't know that's good or bad but when I started use this smartphone then I realized this is the best ever smartphone for me and my family and friends so now I am very happy for this smartphone I recommend him for my family members and my friends for shopping smartphones from I mate that's phone camera is amazing and what the quality of his video and screen is very good low light and very stylish look so recommend you for shopping from I mate smartphones so I'm very happy b'coz I have a smartphone so thanks imate for giving me this smartphone. ????????

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The line between regular mobile phones and smartphones has well and truly blurred. Dopod's 595, O2's Xda Stealth and now i-mate's Smartflip all offer full Windows Mobile 5.0 functionality, but come in packages as small as many phones that aren't as feature-rich.

The phone's basic measurements are 98.5mm by 51.4mm by 15.8mm, and this coupled with a weight of 99 grams makes it both smaller and lighter than the 595 and Stealth. The clamshell isn't quite as slim as Motorola's RAZR, but it should slip comfortably into most jeans pockets.

Speaking of the RAZR, the Smartflip uses a similar keypad design, in that there aren't individual buttons but rather a single brushed metal plate. We found this to be both comfortable and elegant.

Aesthetically, the Smartflip is all black with shiny silver accents. When compared to regular mobile phones it's far from the most attractive offering you'll find, but relative to other smartphones it's quite the looker. Check out the attached images and decide for yourself.

To wrap up our design observations, it's worth noting that i-mate has designed the device to be used as an MP3 player as well as a phone/PDA. Three track navigation buttons on the front of the device enable users to conveniently cycle through or pause songs without having to flip open the phone.

Features

Like many clamshells, the Smartflip offers dual screens. On the outside you'll find a 1.2-inch, 128x128 LCD that supports up to 65K colours, while flipping it open reveals a 2.2-inch, 240x320 display, also supporting up to 65K colours. We found the external screen to be extremely handy since it's capable of displaying useful information at a glance, such as a digital/analogue clock, battery status, caller ID, volume, missed calls and MP3 player track information.

The internal screen is vibrant and perfect for basic phone tasks, but those looking at editing more than the occasional word document or spreadsheet will likely find themselves longing for more screen space.

The Smartflip supports Bluetooth 1.2, which is pretty much mandatory even for a non-smartphone. Unfortunately, like the Dopod 595, it doesn't offer Wi-Fi, so all of your Web browsing and e-mail downloading must take place over GPRS.

Quad-band GSM(850/900/1800/1900) support is present for your regular phone functions, and both loud speaker and MP3/WAV/WMA/AAC/AMR ring tones are also present.

Mobile professionals will be pleased to hear that, since it runs the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system, the Smartflip comes bundled with a number of handy office applications including Outlook with push e-mail and ClearVue's Document, PDF, Presentation and Worksheet applications.

Synchronising with a PC is accomplished via a USB1.1 connection, but strangely, the device uses a proprietary 12-pin connector. This won't pose much of an issue except in the event that you lose the bundled USB cable, at which point you may have difficulty finding a replacement.

While O2's Stealth and Dopod's 595 offer 192MB and 128MB built-in flash storage respectively, the Smartflip only offers 64MB, so you'll definitely want to populate the provided microSD slot, which sits just underneath the SIM card.

Of course, no smartphone would be complete without the requisite low-end digital camera, and the Smartflip doesn't disappoint here. It's got a 1.3-megapixel camera, and although there's no flash - which puts low-light shots out of the question - it's capable of taking self-portraits thanks to the ability to preview your image on the external display. Noise is apparent in most snaps, but for candid weekend shots the camera should suffice.

Performance

Given its diminutive dimensions we certainly weren't expecting the Smartflip to pack a speedy processor and loads of RAM. Turns out we were right - it's got a 195MHz processor and 64MB of memory. Surprisingly, however, during testing we hardly noticed any lag at all. Load times are fast(aside from initial boot-up), and unless you're planning on editing spreadsheets, word documents and composing e-mails simultaneously, you won't experience RAM shortages.

Navigating the user interface is easy considering the lack of a touchscreen, but bashing out long e-mails and documents isn't nearly as simple, due to the relatively small screen size and lack of a full QWERTY keyboard.

Call quality is great, the loudspeaker feature is clear and audio playback through the bundled headphones is pleasing. Battery life - at around 2-3 days per charge - should also be sufficient for most users.

If you're looking for a compact phone but at the same time require the power to view and compose e-mail, documents, presentations and spreadsheets, the Smartflip should fit the bill nicely.

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I bought an imate PDAL device on 2006 december. After an year microsoft released windows mobile 6 and all other vendors provided upgrade to windows mobile within a short period of time. But in an international  mobile forum imate is the first company demonstrated windows mobile 6 on a PDAL device. It is almost 2 year now and microsoft released another version of Windows called 6.1. So far imate customers like me did not get an upgrade to windows mobile 6. I am sure they are capable of providing the support buy they are not ready to give upgrade. This shows the kind of ethics and values that company follows.

This phone is not suitable for an average indian who do not throw away his/her mobile every year. So if you wish to use same mobile for atleast 2 years. Do not trust them do not get into the trap.

For reference, my communication with imate india support.

You're now talking to David from'India Support' The topic is: imate PDAL

David> Welcome to Club i-mate. My name is David and I am a Club Advisor. What can I help you with?

vijay> hi ]

vijay> I Have a PDAL device

David> r welcome

vijay> when I can get upgrade to windows mobile 6

vijay> MY latest version of GPS software need windows mobile 6

David> ok

David> would like to inform you that we have no such rom for p-dal device

vijay> when I can expect a windows mobile 6 ROM from imate

vijay> all your competetior are released windows mobile 6 ROM

vijay> you are letting down your existing customers by not providing upgrade

David> sorry to say that we are not going to have such rom version for p-dal device

David> we only have it for our JAMA and ULTIMATE series

vijay> nice to hear that I spend 24000 INR for buying this device and now you are saying my device is useless

vijay> can I get mail address of your CEO or MD?

Person whom I was chatting left abruptly without any further communication

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I have the PDAL phone from imate for past 6 months.At that time it costed me Rs 15000 from Ghaffar Market, New Delhi. I had gone to the market with an inclination towards another newly launched and advertised model from imate that was JAMA. So naturally I asked about JAMA and shopkeeper promptly showed me that which was costing around Rs 14 k.But along with JAMA he also suggested me PDAL. I didn't showed much interest. But when he brought the cell in front of me; I was amazed.PDA-L is a hell good looking phonekeeping in mind that it is a touch screen based phone which are usually big and ugly. Not so with PDAL.

PDA-L is a bar shaped phone with 2.4" LCD which is quite responsive except for a few times when you have to press the sylus real hard. The screen is a 65k colour screen which is good but there are issues with it under broad sunlight. All budget business phones with touch screens still have a 65k screen. So don't have much options in this range.

Coming to voice quality it is good.Reception is very nice.Multimedia capability is nothing to rave about.It is just mediocre.There is no FM.Now coming to the best part for which business phones are meant for that is Internet.Surfing net on this phone is a breeze.It isEDGE enabled..So good speeds are there.Internet Explorer renders the webpages very well and if you have it you don't miss much of your surfing experience.Blog postings, regular mail checking, surfing heavy multimedia sites, etc is no problem.Downloading full screen resolution wallpapers i.e 1024768 resoluted images is easy and they look as good on the imate screen as that on your CRT monitor.WiFiis also inbuilt but I never got any chance to check that.Battery backup is good lasting for 2-3 days with moderate use.It is based onWindows 5.0 edition **which is old as there is newer 6.0 edition but 5.0 is faster than 6.0 so not much problems.

Overall I prefered it over JAMA and HTC P3400 as they were the other options in my range.HTC P3400 has 2.8" screen I think it ought to be good.But stil I am happy with my purchase.One last thing though JAMA claims to have a 2 MP camera.But it is not; infact JAMA has a 2.0 MP Effect Camera while PDAL has a full fledged 2 MP camera.So if pic quality matters to you even then PDAL is a better choice plus it is WIFI and EDGE enabled which JAMA doesn't have.The price diffrence between the two is hardly a few hundred rupees so go for PDAL.

P.S:- Fly which is a part of U.K based Meridian group has also launched PDAL with its logo in some parts of world like Russia.They may have a pact with imate in that part of world.It striked me how same phone can be launched by 2 different companies with PDAL remaining same and parent company as Fly and imate.May anybody knows it here.In between Fly has named PDAL as PC100 and given 6.0 Windows with it.Isn't it great?

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I bought imate PDAL in exchange of my SE K750i. specs of this phone look impressive but when it comes to _real_ life most of them are not upto mark

Sound reception : Pathetic !! there is some kind of echo and voice drop in between calls.

PDA functions: are ok, but not upto mark. many times it slows down for normal operations like opening word files etc.

Connectivity : I was not able to use my bluetooth gps with this phone, dont know why it was not getting detected. and wifi connectivity is also bad. signals drop frequently.

for USB connectivity its not detected as mass storage device so u need to install complete PC suite to make it work. and there is no IRDA

Multimedia: speakers are of veri poor quality. sounds like coming from torn off speakers.

there is no FM

Usability: there is no physical keypad so making calls is really tough. imagine if u are driving and u wanna make qucik call. u pull out phone from case. then dial number from touch screen keypad. not good idea.

Build : phone build looks solid, overall phone design looks good and durable.

Battery backup : worst I ever seen. u use wifi for few hours and battery is gone ! after 7-8 hours of normal usage battery is totally drained out.

Resale value: this was a major shock !. I bought this phone for 15900/- and within 24 hrs I went to subhisha to change to SE K790i and he refused to change. then he said he can take it as used set.

and he evaluated it to 9500/- about 40% less within 24 hrs.

I asked same exchange offer at hotspot. They to said they cant give more than 10, 000/-

It was a shock ! Then I sold this phone to my friend for 1000/- less and bought SE W810i.

and I am  veri happy with W810i

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The phone itself might be good, but what is the use if you can not use it's feature. The sales guy of I-mate who was placed at a mobile shop at Agrani-Noida cheated me in all possible ways. Whatever features I checked for, he said for Nokia & sony - it is not available & confirmed all for I-mate. When I checked, whether he is from I-mate, he said he is from the shop & not I-mate. Later I found it wrong. He confirmed the phone has excel & word by default, when he could not show me, he said he was not able to operate correctly. Believing him I still bought the phone worth 20000.

Later he completely denied of this feature. I complained to I-mate head office as well as their local, I-mate head office response was horrible. The local office responded positive but could not really help as word & excel is not there in the phone. Now what do I do with the investment? The service rep although came but service is still poor, as my problem is not resolved & even the phone is not so user friendly! I suggest, no one should go for this brand of phones, the company cheats!!

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Having a windows based is a smart choice

You can got for other nokia phones in this range also,

But having a windows based has its pros and cons

Pros:

1. Most of the software you download, including the free ones you get from getjar.com work on your mobile

   
   




2. get a gprs connection and you can use msn messenger fully at a cheaper rate, it takes the least downloads and enjoy it as free messaging, just paying for gprs which is cheap

   
   




3. come to think of it, if everyone gets gprs and have msn messenger on mobile, there would be no need of messaging and would be cheaper

   
   




4. though there are wap sites like wap.e-messenger.net which let you access msn messenger from mobile, they are slow and take more download as they have to download the page, but msn messenger on the imate just takes the text the people are sending to you which is small

   
   




5. the 2 mega pixel camera, makes a camera feel worth it, great pics as good as digital cameras, add a 512 memory card, and record your video in mp4 version, yes u can record it as 3gp too but why when u have a clearer superior quality mp4 to go with

   
   




6. Syncing it with your PC could never be easier using microsoft active sync , u can sync your contacts, your calender you emails, tasks, favcorites, music ,everythin u like by just a click,

   
   




7. browse through my computer like an external drive

   
   




8. big screen, great pixels, makes you happy everytime you see your mobile phone, easy to use

   
   

9.bluetooh, infra red, wifi (great wifi reception)

1. windows media player, great music quality

   
   




2. you can even get skype on this smartphone ;)

   
   

cons

1. expensive, but compared to a nokia phone in the same range this is better

2.hard to think of

1. 2G device, not 3G

4.no fm radio

More information:

The i-mate SP5, aka the HTC Tornado, is one of the first Windows Mobile5.0 powered Smartphones to come to market. The i-mate SP5m, which isessentially the same phone wrapped in a more media-centric exterior, issibling to the SP5.Notable features for the SP5/m include a crystalclear 2.2” QVGA scree

Specifications

Price Rs.20,490/- at https://univercell.in/showMobile.asp?mno=245

Form Factor Bar

Size 107.5 x 46 x 17.5 mm

Weight 106 g

Display Size 240 x 320 pixels, 33 x 45 mm

Display Colors TFT, 65K colors

Ringtones Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3

Media Player MP3/AAC player

Games Yes

Ports Yes

Total Memory 64 MB SDRAM Flash ROM

Talk Time Up to 5 h

Standby Time Up to 250 h

Operating Frequency

GSM 850 / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900

Update

-- Is it just me or does it happen in all windows mobile devices. whenyou connect two windows mobile devices using bluetooh you can shareeach other conenctions likde dial up, but u can t send pics or songs...woooooooooott.... yes it just let u beam it (thru infra red) , or emailwoooooooot

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Convergence: you want to have one device which does one thing rather than have 3 devices in your various pockets. Smart phone has the biggest advantage in convergence. It is a combined product in PDA and a phone, and also many features of a PC. I have a O2 XDA II mini - bought from Ebay, and I am really happy about it. Phone - it is a very good mobile phone - contact details are beautifully stored. Writing SMS is a breeze, because of the transcriber and key board features. If you are connected to your PC, you can send the SMS by using the key board of the PC. The SMS both incoming and outgoing are stored in the PC Outlook folder - so can be used as mail and forwarded and vice versa, i.e. mails can be forwarded as SMS. This is another Wow in convergence. Since you are used to number pads in phones, and dialing no is instinctive to us - sometimes you miss the number pad, as everything is on touch screen. So you have to take out your stylus and punch the no. - so sometimes this seems like a limitation.