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REGISTERSaturday, Nov 25th 2006 by Chris Davies
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Everywhere you turn these days there seems to be a smartphone waiting to ambush you, leaping out from the shadows and shaking its QWERTY keyboard, cajoling you with promises of push-email and good times. Choice is a Good Thing, of course, but the downside is that it can get confusing trying to decide which is worth giving up a year or maybe two of your contract-life for. As far as I can tell, this new i-mate JAQ3 is aimed at potential Treo 680 buyers; like the Palm phone, it lacks 3G connectivity, but unlike it offers Windows Mobile.
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The JAQ3 is more along the line of Samsung BlackJack and HTC Excalibur. The Treo 680 is a different beast being that it has a touchscreen. The operating system is the other obvious difference – Palm runs Palm OS while the JAQ3 runs Windows Mobile without a touch screen. i-mate and Palm just doesn’t get it. Why bother releasing a device without 3G? If you’re going to leave out 3G, at least throw in Wi-Fi. Lack of high speed of anything is getting old.
The JaQ3 does have a touch screen, and runs full Windows Mobile 5 PocketPC. It lacks 3G, but at least it has WIFI, unlike the Treo 680.
Ahh – I stand corrected. Thanks for the update! I can live without 3G as long as its got WiFi and a healthy battery.