What happens to the i-mate - the problem, restructuring or an abundance of new products?
Last week news came out a whole group of related companies i-mate. On the one hand it was reported that the company is experiencing some problems. About 10 employees of the company filed for i-mate to court for wrongful dismissal. According to an Internet resource Msmobiles, they were given 15 minutes to collect belongings and exit from the corporate head office in Dubai. Perhaps all happened less tragic, but it seems that they really were not warned of the impending dismissal and did not provide compensation or severance pay. According to the same Msmobiles, some of them have been promised a transfer to the U.S. office in Seattle, as part of the reorganization. " Layoffs attributed to the hard times that are going through the company, after the Taiwanese manufacturer High Tech Computer has ceased to cooperate with the i-mate, and she had to quickly move to other device manufacturers to produce under its own brand. The number of new partners, i-mate includes companies such as Taiwan's Inventec, and China Tech Faith Wireless. Shortly after the publication followed by a comment from a representative of i-mate. In brief comments boiled down to the meaning of thought "no problem, just restructured, allegedly modified the structure of the company requires some redundancies. According to the same employee i-mate, currently restructuring the company in the Middle East has been completed, more than that in the next six months will be offered 97 new jobs worldwide. Nevertheless, this news about the i-mate exhausted. Around the same time extremely well for the company in the network issued a "spy roadmap" for 2007, which almost immediately captured the attention of news resources. Coincidence is a coincidence or not, but the theme is about the difficulties i-mate and illegal dismissal was forgotten and left alone. Nevertheless, the information published online resource PocketPT.net really interesting. It contains some of the inconsistencies inherent in the documents of this kind, but it costs that have to be reconciled.
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The document submitted in addition to already known and announced devices, which include a series of powerful communicators and Ultimate i-mate JAQ4, you can see a description and timing of the issuance of several models is not familiar to users according to official materials of the company. Thus came to be known prior information about the two communicators who allegedly were to be released, or at least presented in January and February of this year. This model appearing in the material called i-mate P30 and i-mate Odyssey. Naturally now it is unclear whether they rejected the company in general or to submit later. It should be noted that information about the device i-mate P30 already appeared in earlier rumors. Only there, he figured, codenamed i-mate JAMA, the same characteristics reported the same. According to these data, the model explicitly budget. Communicator is equipped with a small display diagonal of 2.4 inch, 2-megapixel camera, good for a budget solution Samsung processor clocked at 300 MHz, 64 MB RAM and 128 MB ROM. However, because communication can mark only two-band cellular networks GSM / GPRS, yes Interface Bluetooth 2.0. Working device based on operating system Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC.
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Communicator i-mate Odyssey is made entirely from another test. This model is quite productive and powerful. It can not be compared with a series of Ultimate, but it looks good on the background of the "middle class". Relatively Odyssey reported the following.He is able to work in networks GSM / GPRS / EDGE (900/1800/1900 MHz) and UMTS (1900/2100 MHz). The communicator is equipped with 2.7-inch display with QVGA (240x320 pixels), there are also stereo speakers and a 2-megapixel camera. Work is performed based on Intel processors with a clock frequency of 416 MHz, 64 MB RAM and 192 MB ROM. Plus, the phone supports wireless Wi-Fi (802.11 b / g) interface and Bluetooth.
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A careful observer can find just three inconsistencies in information about this device. Firstly, the image with a description of a couple of typos - the frequency range of 1899 MHz and 74 MB of RAM. Secondly, in spite of these Windows Mobile Pocket PC Edition 5.0, the picture with the device clearly shows a screenshot of Windows Mobile 2003. Such negligence is, of course suspicious, but it is quite common in the documentation with the preliminary information obtained from unofficial sources. Perhaps the most interesting series with the enigmatic title "X Series". Name definitely owes its appearance to popular television series "The X Files" (English «The X-Files»), all models, code names, one way or another connected with it. The series consists of two communicators, and the two smartphones. All models are running on Windows Mobile 6, can operate in a third-generation networks while supporting high-speed standard HSDPA. Also among the common characteristics for the entire series - Samsung processor clocked at 400 MHz, support for wireless networking Wi-Fi (802.11 b / g) interface and Bluetooth 2.0. If the information turns out to be true, it is not too clear exactly how they will relate to the series Communicator Ultimate. Most likely - as a more affordable solution, but still higher class than the average model of the i-mate. As in the series Ultimate, there is traced a single style for all models. Communicators i-mate Scully and i-mate Fox is scheduled for release in May. i-mate Fox made a candybar with a numeric keypad. In this case, unlike the i-mate 8150 Ultimate, performed in a similar form factor, future-oriented novelty has a horizontal display. i-mate Scully made, most likely in the form of a slider with a numeric keypad, a kind of analogue of the i-mate 5150 Ultimate. Judging by the images, the display of Scully more than Fox.
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Smartphone i-mate Informer and i-mate Navajo are expected to be released from June. i-mate Navajo is designed as a traditional clamshell with a numeric keypad and two displays. i-mate Informer is an obvious successor Smartphone HTC S710 (Vox), submitted in February. It is also equipped with the usual numeric keypad and sliding side QWERTY-keyboard. On this model the source provided the most detailed information - reported 2.2-inch display with QVGA (less than 2.4-inch display with HTC S710), as well as a 2-megapixel camera.
The document also can see a couple of unknown devices not mentioned names that were due in March.
As can be seen on the details of which are specified in the document, it's pretty old stuff, created even before the February announcement of the new operating system Windows Mobile. As far as he is out of date and how much will be true in general, will become clear later, reportedly from the company i-mate.
Samsung comes with six Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone
Information regarding the future of smart innovations from Samsung to a more routine and less dramatic way than the roadmap of i-mate. At the regular press conference launch of the Smartphone Samsung SGH-i600, which held the German division of Samsung, Striksner Norbert (Norbert Strixner), a fairly high-ranking representative of the company, told the interesting details about plans for the near future.
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According to him, the German market, the classical mobile phones finally entered a phase of saturation, and bet on it accordingly does not make much sense. The company said rising demand for the smartphone consumer and semi-professional market segments. Since the summer of this year, Samsung plans to introduce as much as 6 new models of smartphones. All of them will be running on Windows Mobile 6. Purely professional models without built-in cameras are planned, all the new items will be equipped with cameras with higher than the Samsung SGH-i600 resolution. We recall that the Samsung SGH-i600 has a 1.3-megapixel camera. Since did not specify the operating system version - Standard (for smart phones without touch screen) or Professional (for PDA with touch screen), it is possible that among these six will be presented not only smartphones, but communicators. According to the company's plans, they will be released for sale until the end of 2007. Models designed for the German region, probably will appear in other European markets.
Started selling budget-Voxtel W520 with support for Wi-Fi
Has not been without news from our native Russian market - Voxtel company announced sales of the new communicator Voxtel W520. This is a budget communicator, who, despite a reasonable price supports wireless networking Wi-Fi, in addition to cellular networks. The model is a pleasant exception among competing solutions, most of whom do not have the support networks of Wi-Fi. In the meantime, this feature is very useful and can be useful not only in your home or office wireless network. Began to appear more and more public access points, Wi-Fi, wireless networks have already been reached and the Moscow metro. A detailed review of the new items can already be found in the "Library" on HPC.ru.
Preparing the next Treo for Palm
Despite the disappointing no predictions about the future of Palm, it seems, is not going to surrender and continued to operate to get her "inherited" and eventually an aging Palm OS.The network published photos of the new model device Treo, running OS Garnet OS. Remember, this is not a radically new OSes, and renamed the Palm OS. The new device is made of the same is still unusual for the production of Palm form factor as the latest innovations - the budget Treo 680 smartphone and the 3G-Treo 750 smartphone based on Windows Mobile 5.0. As well as these two models Treo 755p, namely the so-called novelty presumably, has no external antenna. This is the first model of the Treo, is designed for networks of CDMA, equipped with an internal rather than external antenna.
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Apparently, Treo 755p is the successor was released last year communicator Treo 700p, capable of operating in high-speed data transfer standard EV-DO. It is not entirely clear what besides the form factor will be different from the Treo 755p Treo 700p. Significant changes in the operating system should not happen, because work on the development of the heir to the latest version of the traditional Palm OS is not made. Changes might be expected purely on the hardware level, which then may find expression in future models of the Treo based on Windows Mobile. In fact, strangely enough, that we still have not heard about the development of a new Treo smartphone based on Windows Mobile 6, because in this operating system, even laid the initial support for displays with a resolution of 320x320, so beloved by Palm, is a clear nod in her direction from the company Microsoft. On the other hand, the possible sources prochaschie expedite the sale of Palm, not too far from the truth, and then the situation is quite understandable.
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Organiser Agendus for Windows Mobile smartphones
Good news for owners of smartphones running the Windows operating system Windows Mobile. Known multi-organizer Agendus, originally produced for the devices based on Palm OS, now adapted for Windows Mobile smartphones. The release version of Pocket PC software was held in February this year. As well as in other versions of Agendus, supported by work with notes, appointments, contacts, check email, and also provides access to the services provided by OTA (Over-the-Air) basis. They can be used, for example, time to find out the weather forecast and check for new updates, as well as getting the map to the address given in contact. This increasing attention from developers in relation to the smartphone with Windows Mobile shows their growing popularity.
Office 2007 on Palm devices
Office suite Documents To Go from a software developer DataViz is one of the most popular devices on the basis of the operating system Palm OS. It allows you to work with Microsoft Office documents without conversion. Last week came another update of this package - Documents To Go Premium Edition 10. The main change in this version - includes support for opening and viewing of documents from the new office suite from Microsoft - Word and Excel Office 2007. More extensive work with Office 2007 will be implemented later in the next version provides the ability to create and edit files in Word, Excel and PowerPoint Office 2007 as well as full support for the operating system Microsoft Windows Vista.
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