MobilePCMag has two exclusive reviews of i-Mate smartphones running Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 2003 Pocket PC Phone Edition. The first is the i-Mate Pocket PC [pictured left], a ‘beefy’ 400Mhz slate-style GSM phone with an included camera in a svelte package. At $850, it’s beefy on the wallet, as well, but that’s the price paid for the fatty edge of progress.
The other is the i-Mate Smartphone 2, an oddly-shaped candy bar phone with Bluetooth, camera, infrared, and SD. It’s seriously lacking in processor, compared to the previous phone, but the 120MHz Perseus1 seems to perform most duties quickly enough.
Update: Adam writes to note that the i-Mate PocketPC is essentially a rebranded O2 XDA II. I write to note that, hey, he’s right.
