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i-Mate, the Windows Mobile handset manufacturer, will be delisted from the Alternative Investment Market as the share price sinks below a penny and the CEO takes back control of the company. The Financial Times reports that Jim Morrison, the colourful CEO who still owns more than three quarters of i-Mate, will take full control …

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Alex Walsh

i-mate

I don't understand exactly what it is i-mate do. I have an old i-mate jam sitting on my desk, which I was under the impression was a rebadged HTC. Do they actually design and build their own stuff now?

druck

jasjar

One device which wasn't just a boring rebadged HTC generic Windows Mobile phone was the i-mate JasJar. It's clamshell screen and keyboard which could also be folded back in to standard touch screen PDA format, offered the hope of a long awaited sucessor to the Psion 5. However, despite the fast processor, keyboard and VGA screen, and built in 3G conectivity, the hideousness of Windows Mobile and the compromise to make it small enough to be used as a phone, made it too small to be useful for note taking or web browsing. It was also horrendously expensive, even with 50% subsidy on contract it was still more than today's SCCs. I now use an EEE PC 701.

Steve Dulieu

@ jasjar

errr, I'd have a quick google for "HTC Universal" if I were you...

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