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All posts tagged "imate"


Friday, September 25, 2009

iMate Continues Business

Posted by Ed Hansberry in "Pocket PC News" @ 04:00 PM

http://www.mobileeurope.co.uk/news_...l_trading_.html

"To safeguard the brand and assets of i-mate these have been acquired by a new company Hillfoot Limited which will continue to trade as i-mate with operations in Australia, Taiwan, the UK and USA. The new company will be led by Jim Morrison, Chief Executive who has committed to stay until normal trading is resumed and the financial infrastructure is established to take the business forward.."

It looks like iMate will continue to exist, just not in India.

Tags: imate, fraud

Thursday, September 24, 2009

iMate Down, But Not Out?

Posted by Ed Hansberry in "Pocket PC News" @ 01:00 PM

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/5683...-to-major-fraud

Last week, I told you that iMate had shuttered their offices and were closing down the operation.Apparently it isn't that black and white. Supposedly, they are in dire financial straits due to fraud committed by one of their executives. We'll keep you posted as we hear more information, but for now, consider iMate on pause, not stop.

Tags: rumor, imate, fraud

Thursday, September 17, 2009

iMate Shutters Operations, Closes Offices

Posted by Ed Hansberry in "Pocket PC News" @ 01:00 PM

http://www.itp.net/573861-i-mate-shuts-down

"UAE mobile phone company i-mate has gone out of business, according to market sources. The company, which mainly sold branded smartphones, has closed its office in Dubai Internet City and founder and CEO Jim Morrison is believed to have left the country."

iMate came on the scene really strongly with the Windows Mobile 2003 SE devices like the PDA2K which had a keyboard that slid out from the bottom. They really hit their stride with WinMo 5 with the K-Jam, JasJar and many others. These were HTC devices, but iMate was selling them unlocked to consumers through various retail outlets, and this made them popular with a lot of users. When things soured between them and HTC, iMate contracted to have their own devices made, but it was never really the same. It also didn't help that they rarely provided OS upgrades for their devices, free or otherwise. Even their updates often proved buggy. More than once I had to rely on XDA Developers for a fix to some new bug introduced in an updated ROM. Even with 100% reproducible bugs confirmed by dozens of posts at various sites, they just shrugged it of saying they couldn't repro so it must not be their problem.

I hate to see anyone lose their job and feel for all of the iMate employees that have been let go recently, but as far as I can tell, the main culprit is upper management that favored profit over customer satisfaction. I hope any of you with a device under warranty have no problems with it.

Tags: imate

Friday, December 12, 2008

i-mate Jumps on Alternate UI Bandwagon

Posted by Jon Westfall in "Pocket PC Software" @ 01:00 PM

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008...e-61-i-mate-go/

"First things first... It's no TouchFLO 3D. Ok, now that we have that out of the way we do have to say that we're happy to see another company making an effort to tidy up the Windows Mobile UI a tad. Who knows how far away we really are from Windows Mobile 7 becoming a reality and in the meantime, even many Windows Mobile die hards seem to be losing patience with the very dated look of the OS. Samsung, HTC and Sony Ericsson aren't the only companies attempting to bandage their mobile OS of choice however, as i-mate has just announced its "i-mate Go" UI. No, it's not the catchiest name in the game, but those of you looking for high visibility and simple design for your i-mate UI should be pleased. i-mate Go is powered by VITO Winterface of course, a Windows Mobile UI enhancement that essentially started as an iPhone rip off and evolved into a slightly less obvious iPhone rip off."

Well, it isn't at all unexpected to see an alternate UI for Windows Mobile these days, which in itself is a bit sad. However, looking on the bright side, I suppose this truly signifies that i-mate is not dead, after struggling with the loss of HTC provided handsets. Still, I'd rather have one nice UI, rather than a patchwork of "improved" UIs floating around.

Tags: imate

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