Well even though we have yet to see
three of the five high-end
Ultimate smartphones promised by i-mate earlier this year, the company has decided to reveal yet another pair of QWERTY-packing family members, including one -- the 9502 -- that gives the
HTC Kaiser / TyTN II a run for its money. Almost identically-spec'ed to what is now the
AT&T Tilt (save for the, um, tilt), the quad-band GSM / tri-band HSUPA Windows Mobile 6 handset manages to step up the game by featuring a VGA display along with video out, LED "flash," and standard 2.5-millimeter audio jack. Slightly less impressive but still pretty feature packed, the candybar-shaped Ultimate 8502 sports the same radios (including WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth 2.0), memory configuration (256MB ROM / 128MB RAM) and 400MHz Qualcomm processor as its big brother, but replaces the 3.0 megapixel autofocus camera with a 2.0 megapixel fixed focus and, more importantly, drops the display down to a pedestrian 2.6-inch QVGA. Still, there's a lot to love here, but until we see some pricing and release dates, i-mate, we're not gonna go
blending our current phones just yet. Check out the entire US Ultimate team -- including the already well-known
6150 and
8150 -- in the gallery below...
[Thanks, Salem S.]
Read - Ultimate 9502
Read - Ultimate 8502
posted October 23rd 2007 10:40AM
Finally some good VGA phones reach the States! Suck on that HTC!
The one on the right = WinMo based Sidekick = stuff of nightmares.
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My above post was meant to be a commentary on rabid fanboyism and how ludicrous and unintelligible brand fanatics act when they feel that their material messiah is under attack.
Since you missed the point entirely, instead of doubting the effectiveness of said commentary, I'll just claim that it was so accurate that you couldn't disseminate between my joke, and the real thing.
Mission accomplished
Your comment was completely unneeded as nobody made the comparison between the two devices. Your only making an asshat out of yourself, especilly by trying to come up with some kind of intelligent, witty response.
Sure it doesn't have the tilt feature? PocketPCThoughts.com said it did, which was a surprise to me. Obviously one site is in error and I'm too lazy to dig into the specs to find out which!
Nice VGA screen but the keyboard is unergonomic. I rather have the Tilt. HTC give us some Windows Mobile devices with 2.8" VGA screens!
There aren't a lot of phones out there with both WiFi and GPS. So I'm going to jump on this if it's
"You had me at GPS..."
I'm so sick of shelling out $3 to Verizon every time I get lost, or need to drive into Boston.
Ah, how I wish there were CDMA/EVDO versions of these.
Agreed - I'd love to get he I-Mate 6150 or the Eten 800 - I'm tired of the 3 year old technology we get on the CDMA side of things.
I'll stick with my Tilt
"and standard 2.5-millimeter audio jack"
...that's the standard one I hate to see on a device. Nothing like buying a bulky adapter to use a real pair of earphones with it.
Yes, I like the ones with the 1/4" jack much better, too.
Don't you use A2DP anyway? Get with the program!
Just kidding, you make a good point, in that you still need to buy an adapter just like with the single-connector HTC handsets.
BTW, the 9502 seems to officially have HSUPA capabilities (not HSDPA, but HSUPA - high speed uploads). The Kaiser/Tilt was rumored to have HSUPA too but for some reason that feature didn't make it into the final device.
OMG! It's such an iPhone ripoff! Why does everyone have to steal Apples ideas??! A phone? With a screen?! It's so Jobs.
;)
Sorry, couldn't help myself... there were no iPhone comparisons yet.
Anyone have any idea on availability?
too bad support for HSUPA, or any 3g gsm data is crap in the us, they try to say they are rolling it out, but its bs! Do youself a favor and pick up a cdma device until somethin better rolls around for true high speed wireless data networks in the us of a...
VGA, huh? Maybe HTC will need to start adding in the mini-projectors onto their phones as well as making the Touch feature more practical.
Looking forward to seeing Spb Benchmark comparisons between the i-mate's 6150/8150s and the 8502/9502s. The former two uses 520MHz xScale processor AND an NVIDIA GoForce 550 while the latter two only use a 400MHz Qualcomm.
Err, doesn't iMate basically resell unlocked HTC phone under their own brand? All the phones they've sold so far are...
Unless iMate's changed drastically, I don't think they're 'designing' anything.
I-Mate "split" with HTC this year and so no longer rebrand HTC handsets. Now im not certain if I-Mate are making these themselves or rebadging another less-known manufacturer or not.
err... @2, winmobo phones are alot easier to add ringtones to the phone then if you try with any other phone...
I'll stick with my Tilt until the Borg get here and implant somthing better in my skull.
I believe that imate has advertising and planning issues!! nobody know the release date of this two products!! Like the ultimate 9150 & ultimate 7150 . . we know nothing about them till now. so i advise not to wait if anyone like any of these products!! About this 9502, my opinion . . its big with a bad design.
iMate make good keyboards, but the radio's have always been gprs.
Now they've caught up with western world, i want one.
When can i have one, huh, huh??
I want the 9502 ultimate CDMA/Rev A would be nice. Because the HTC Touch and the Mogul arn't doing it for me. I'll stick with my Personal Perfection Controller AKA PPC-6700 WM6. So heavy I can throw it at anyone who tries to mess with me or my post!