karinatwork
05-29-2006, 05:43 PM
After a couple of years with my trusted h4150, I got tired of lugging around my pocket pc, my cellphone and a digital camera. I mean, a girl's got a purse, but I need the room for other stuff, not just gadgets, especially now that I have to lug my 4-year-old's stuff around as well. So I kinda fell in love with the I-mate Jam, but I was weiry about spending big bucks on a pocket pc that was already "old" again. Then I heard about the I-mate Jamin, which seemed to fit the bill perfectly: it is a pocket pc and a GSM cellphone, it has a 2 megapixel camera (which is not really great but it also isn't that important to me), and it has built in Wifi (which is important to me). The Jamin is small, smaller than the 4150 although thicker, and it's only a little bit bigger (wider) than my Motorola ROKR. The screen is fabulous, nicer than the h4150 (not yellow), and the form factor is extraorinary.
Yet Thursday night, when I started to play with my new pocket pc, I panicked. What have I done? None of my software will work on this thing! Wifi doesn't work either! What are those settings for? Why does the address book not support caller ID ringtones? Why does the battery run down so quickly? And why the heck is this thing so FLIPPIN' slow!!!!!?????
I went to bed frustrated and woke up frustrated. Do you know that feeling, when you get this new pocket pc, or cellphone, or whatever it is, that you were really looking forward to, but now it disappoints you in every aspect? That's the feeling I had. Well, until I realized that I needed to update the ROM. What a difference it made! I am holding a completely new device in my hands now. It's fast, it has all the features I need, Wifi works, caller ID (pictures and ringtones) work without additional sofware; my ebooks work, my diary software works, it's fast, it's fun, it's tiny and cute and I am in love. Right now I feel like this is the Jamin and I might become real good friends, a friend that I won't dump after only a year or so.
http://www.members.shaw.ca/the-nelsons/Pocket PC.jpg
(This should be a picture of my holding my Jamin, but it might not work, sorry...)
If you're tired of hauling a pile of gadgets in your pocket, or if you're currently considering updating your cellphone, look into the Jamin (or Qtek S200, or however they're called). It's alot of money, but it's totally worth it.
Just my 1.5 cents. (I can't afford the other 0.5, I need to pay off my credit card now). :D
K.
P.S.: I intentionally drained the battery to 4%, to recondition it, and it made a big difference (btw, it almost took me 5 hours of music blaring at full volume with maximum backlight settings. That's a long time.)
Yet Thursday night, when I started to play with my new pocket pc, I panicked. What have I done? None of my software will work on this thing! Wifi doesn't work either! What are those settings for? Why does the address book not support caller ID ringtones? Why does the battery run down so quickly? And why the heck is this thing so FLIPPIN' slow!!!!!?????
I went to bed frustrated and woke up frustrated. Do you know that feeling, when you get this new pocket pc, or cellphone, or whatever it is, that you were really looking forward to, but now it disappoints you in every aspect? That's the feeling I had. Well, until I realized that I needed to update the ROM. What a difference it made! I am holding a completely new device in my hands now. It's fast, it has all the features I need, Wifi works, caller ID (pictures and ringtones) work without additional sofware; my ebooks work, my diary software works, it's fast, it's fun, it's tiny and cute and I am in love. Right now I feel like this is the Jamin and I might become real good friends, a friend that I won't dump after only a year or so.
http://www.members.shaw.ca/the-nelsons/Pocket PC.jpg
(This should be a picture of my holding my Jamin, but it might not work, sorry...)
If you're tired of hauling a pile of gadgets in your pocket, or if you're currently considering updating your cellphone, look into the Jamin (or Qtek S200, or however they're called). It's alot of money, but it's totally worth it.
Just my 1.5 cents. (I can't afford the other 0.5, I need to pay off my credit card now). :D
K.
P.S.: I intentionally drained the battery to 4%, to recondition it, and it made a big difference (btw, it almost took me 5 hours of music blaring at full volume with maximum backlight settings. That's a long time.)