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4.5 stars
"Excellent piece of kit which is value for money and comes with some well built extras"
Pros: Small, light, good looking and has everything the average user requires
Cons: Gps was not easy to setup
Summary: I received my i-mate on Friday the 10th Feb and played with it for a few hours. It is a real nice and slick product. Well finished and in a colour you don?t see many PDA?s. You could say it will be the Motorola Razar of the PDA world. I was very impressed with the weight too; it weighs about the same as my mobile phone and is lot lighter than my previous Acer N50 premium. The screen is smaller than the average PDA and is not 3.5 inch; however, I think it is worth sacrificing. The sheer look and feel will take your attention way from the screen size. The wifi works fine and so far I have not noticed the issue of not being able to go beyond twenty five metres, but saying that, my flat is not that big and I don?t really know anyone who has a top of the range wifi router that uses it at that distance. I have not had a chance to try out the GPS; however once I do I will put up some comments.
My Acer N50 Premium had a 500+ MHz processor had an Intel chip. The i ? mate has a 300 odd MHz processor and a Samsung chip. The Acer was faster when booting up but it was not running Mobile 5.0. The i-mate does take a good minute or so to boot up from fresh, however, it is also running more like a full fledged operating system, which I am also impressed with. From standby it is very fast to resume and not had any issues with the toggle button either.
In the box you get a car charger, car holder/stand, main charger, headphones, two styluses? and a leather case. The leather case is very impressive and you can tell the people at I-mate have not skimped on cost. I-mate has gone the extra mile where others charge you extra for accessories. I just hope the device is a long lasting and durable as others. The device also comes with a full version of CA entrust virus checker which was a nice surprise.
