i-mate JAMin
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- jerd
- U2B
- 19 Mar 2006
I have had a IMate Jamin for about a week (after using a C500/SP3 for about the last 1.5 years, so i thought I would post my experiences here -
I have not experienced any reboot problems or synchronization problems. It works fine. I use it to check my email through wi-fi at home and at work and i was able to set this up without any issues. (I don't use GPRS as Vodafone Australia has a crappy fee system for using GPRS)
About the CPU and the speed. It's not that bad. The CPU is a reasonable speed (although as always, more is better). The worst start-up time so far is Tomtom. It takes about 10 seconds to open. (This seems very reasonable to me, you don't expect you PC programs to load instantaneously, so why should programs on your pocket pc do so? I know its solid state memory and all, but it does take time for software to get going.)
Once loaded though, TomTom runs fine. Very snappy, route calculation times are quick and the screen and spoken instructions are very clear when driving around.
A benchmark using the TCPMP player, with a avi clip at a close resolution to the Jamin screen (320 X 218), I was getting a frame rate of 36 (495 kbits/sec). Since the clip has a frame rate of 26, the CPU should have no trouble playing most clips.
There is a utility for overclocking the CPU - I have not tried it but have read that people are overclocking the chip to 240MHz and it is very stable. So if you do need a little more grunt, try that solution.
The 2 problems I have come across so far are not bugs as such, just design faults.
The sound quality when answering a call is not great - it sounds a little echoy and distorted. This is the same through both the ear speaker and the hands free. It's useable, just not as clear as most phones - it's also a little quieter than I would like.
The loud speaker (not the phone speaker) is on the back. This is used in hands free - or in my case, watching video clips on the phone. This causes the sound to project away from you when looking at the screen. The person sitting across from you can hear the sound better than you can.
I have not tried a bluetooth headset on this phone yet, but I am hoping that a headset will bypass both of these problems.
Overall it's a good device, but if you buy one, you have to realise you are buying a compromise. If you want it mobile phone, buy a phone. If you want a handheld computer, buy something a bit bigger. But overall I think this is a reasonable compromise with the current technology.
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- Anonymous
- N7P
- 18 Mar 2006
hi i have a SE w800i and i was thinking about replacing it with a new imate and im so confused about which one to go for ?
1)jamin 2)k-jam 3)jas-jar which one is the best ??
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- ali
- SuA
- 18 Mar 2006
it has a very bad coating its fully plastic and a very bad color after 3 days the color start to move ! it sold be from silver ,its toomuch expesive and such a this cover ! unbeliveble !
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- cmv
- n16
- 14 Mar 2006
I would prefer the n80..
it's much more like a phone, this has a touchscreen but they are very easy to brake(as i discovered with my last phone) and they cost a fortune to repair.
The n80 also has 3g and a better camera[3mpx with 20x digital zoom], and a higher screen resolution.
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- Anonymous
- Nxs
- 14 Mar 2006
Also the N80 is 3G (for what it is worth - EDGE is more important thou - imho)
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- Anonymous
- Nxs
- 14 Mar 2006
That's exactly my predicament too :-( After lots of this and that and this and that I've decidet to go with the N80 :-)Size and weight were 2 big factors to consider in my case.
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- below24.co.uk
- Se6
- 13 Mar 2006
This phone is due to come out on vodafone i think. Ive seen it at CeBIT, but you cant touch it... :(
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- Cansev Tumer
- p2A
- 08 Mar 2006
It reboots all the time. Swıtches off by itself on stand by! The battery lasts at most 12 hours. They say they have a distributor in Turkey on the official web site of the company! Unfortunately NO! Wrong information. The distributor in Turkey does not respond!
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- Mick
- CV$
- 06 Mar 2006
I would like to know how the i-mate jamin works with Skype? Is the wi fi strong enough to make phone calls?
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- greg
- PZR
- 06 Mar 2006
imate and 02 are just distributors of phones. dopod/ HTC is the manufacturer. Therefore they are the same phone. exception is the imate jamin and 02 atom. Imate jamin is still made by dopod HTC, but 02 decided to go with quanta with the atom.
Main difference between these 2 phones is the 400mhz cpu of the atom vs 200mhz dual core TI cpu of the jamin. Altho Jamin only 200mhz, but it is dual core and therefore is faster than atom on standardised bench mark tests.
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- Doc_Salwan
- PWY
- 05 Mar 2006
since they are identical, what would be a better buy..an O2 or an i-mate? or does this depend on the specific model meaning some o2's are better than i-mates nd vise versa..?
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- Doc_Salwan
- PWY
- 05 Mar 2006
is there some connection between O2's and i-mates? I am new to these brands and have heard many great things about them, but I am confused of how both brands have identical phones. What is the price of the i-mate JAMin and dollars?
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- spoony
- MSR
- 05 Mar 2006
Johny, just read your posting.
I have a 'Jamin’ phone that is constantly rebooting, i put it down to placing the unsupported tom tom navigator 5 software on it. I see you want to use the tom tom software, have you installed this on the PDA yet or was it rebooting anyway?
Sometimes it seems stable but others it may reboot five times an hour.
For my opinion on the phone;
Connection to bluetooth (laptop and parrot hands free car kit) has been great. Activesyc is seamless via bluetooth, and pairing a dream - especially compared to P2K device before.
Skype is not clear, seems to only work through loud speaker which in turn causes feedback, could be wrong on this as got fed up and not persevered to try and get it acting like a normal phone.
Applications seem to be slow to open and device jams too frequent, especially after power off.
Linking to smtp and imap Email accounts is so simple – it virtually does it for you once email address is entered as first stage.
I want to keep this phone due to size, style and battery life. Also 2MP camera with close and far focus setting is dead hand when I am travelling for work.
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- ep
- iKt
- 05 Mar 2006
thanks rehab.... peace yo
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- khachig
- SeE
- 05 Mar 2006
I found one serious problem with the phone, I donno if anyone can help me with it. The phone is ON, after few hours, suddenly I'm out of the network coverage, though I still see the network signal OK. I cant recieve calls or SMS, i need to restart the device. Did anyone face this issue before? I switched the devce with a new one & the problem persists.
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- Lance
- PAP
- 05 Mar 2006
Is this supposed to compete with the XDA Atom????
200mhz Processor???
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- rehab
- mJD
- 02 Mar 2006
What about Handwriting recognition ?? supported ?
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- Johny
- T4F
- 01 Mar 2006
no it has not the additional speakers like K-jam, but it sports a 2mp camera
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- Rod
- Fxd
- 01 Mar 2006
Had my JAMin for 3 days now and seriously considering sending it back...
1. It reboots at least 10 times a day - normally when returning from a power-off (press, not press-hold) but also when it gets low on memory (which happens all the time).
2. Bluetooth is very unstable, not only do I get dropouts from both my earpeices but it isn't even visible to my Nokia 616 car kit.
3. MSN is so unreliable to be unuseable. I can't rely on a message to be delivered, messages don't get received and people don't show up as being online when they are.
4. There is a bug where ActiveSync seems to start a process spinning that kills performance. Soft resetting the device after a sync cures this.
5. It is so slow that adding any other apps makes no sense. I really want to run TomTom on it as well. It it much slower than my old IPAQ 2210 which I currently use for TomTom
6. USB support is also buggy... Windows frequently complains the USB device is unrecognised... sometimes in the middle of a sync.
Shame because I love the form factor and the promise of functionality... I suspect it needs a patch and am hopeing the promised AKU2 push from Microsoft to HTC will make its way into the JAMin soon.
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- ep
- iKt
- 28 Feb 2006
hey guys... please tell me wether this phone has 2 speakers like the imate k-jam! i need to know its urgent... the person who gives me the real information will be rewarded