The US division of Dubai-based WM smartphone manufacturer i-mate has apparently been left with a skeleton staff, after a combination of redundancies and staff walk-outs following problems delivering their new Ultimate line of cellphones to retail channels as well as "massive resistance" from carriers reluctant to offer the handsets.  All staff in the engineering, QA and tech writing departments were ... continued »

Somewhat less impressive than the Ultimate 9502 is i-mate's second new handset of the day, the Ultimate 8502.  A more traditional candybar smartphone, the 8502 has a 2.6-inch QVGA touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, triband HSDPA/HSUPA and quadband GSM, together with WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 EDR.  i-mate have also packed GPS and the Direct Video Output for hooking up external displays to ... continued »

It looks a bit like the Sidekick's evil big brother, but i-mate's Ultimate 9502 is an altogether more serious beast than the T-Mobile messenger.  Sitting pretty at the top of i-mate's range, the 9502 is a quadband GSM Windows Mobile smartphone with HSDPA/HSUPA, WiFi and Bluetooth, as well as a full VGA touchscreen, integrated GPS and full QWERTY keyboard.  Aiming ... continued »

Thanks to some nifty negotiations, PocketPCItalia (translated) have managed to get hold of i-mate's big-chinned 6150 smartphone and its 8150 sibling for review.  Both Windows Mobile 6 Professional handsets received quite a bit of attention when they were announced last year, with opinions split over their relatively sombre appearance but plenty of salivation about the high-spec Marvell PXA270 520MHz processors ... continued »