Pocket PC Phone :The new i-mate JAQ3

The i-mate JAQ3 was spotted by mypocketpcmobile.com at Novermber 6 at Microsoft Tech-Ed Barcelona. The i-mate JAQ3 is also branded by UBiQUiO as UBiQUiO 501. The i-mate JAQ3 looks like a smartphone but it is a pocket pc phone with a QWERTY keyboard on the front. The display is 2.4 inch touch panel with 320X240 resolution. The dimensions of i-mate JAQ3 are 126 X 67.5 X 14.5 which make it not so compact since other similar pocket pc phones in market (Motorola Q and Samsung SGH-i320) are smaller and thinner. The i-mate JAQ3 has a TI OMAP 800 processor running at 200MHZ. This is still a slow processor compared to the Intel Bulverde at 312 MHZ of Motorola Q, the Samsung S3C2442 at 394 MHZ of Samsung SGH-i320 and the INTEL PXA270 at 416MHZ of the HP iPAQ hw6915. i-mate tries to promote this phone as “messaging your way” possibly because of the presence of a QWERTY keyboard which makes messaging and typing easier and faster. Besides the keyboard the other specifications of i-mate JAQ3 are the least you expect to find on a modern pocket pc phone today. There is a 2 mega-pixel camera, WI-FI, bluetooth and 128 MB ROM and 64 MB RAM. In terms of price this imate will be sold for aprx 335 GPB (unlocked).

i-mate JAQ3 Specifications (comparison with Motorola Q – Samsung SGH-i320 – HP iPAQ hw6915)