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I-Mate Ultimate 8502 Reviews Analysis

Smartphone with digital camera / digital player / FM radio / GPS receiver - WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM More product details

I-Mate Ultimate 8502
alaSCORE 84

54 reviews

November, 2009

82 / 100

14 Experts

Product Age

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67 / 100

40 Users

What people think about the I-Mate Ultimate 8502: (BETA!)

We compute this summary by analyzing 54 reviews from across the web.

price

0.5

  • expensive
 

LCD

0.5

  • I cracked my touch screen (the thin piece of glass in front of the LCD
  • It would be good with the same screen as the 9502
  • The ability to send the screen's contents to a projector could come in handy
 

keyboard

1.5

  • Tiny QWERTY keyboard
  • There's no GPS, and it is difficult to use the keyboard quickly
  • and it is difficult to use the keyboard quickly
  • Keypad is too small
  • Laggy performance, keypad is difficult to use if you've got chubby fingers
  • keyboard
  • Size and build quality, keyboard, scroll wheel, HSDPA and HSUPA, Custom and Secure i-Q
  • Clean lines and very well designed keyboard
  • QWERTY keyboard has good tactile
  • QWERTY keyboard has good tactile, touchscreen, TV out for presentations, easy to synch information between PC and smartphone
  • First one had to the replaced due to faulty keyboard
  • Tiny QWERTY keyboard: but actually nice
 
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interface

0.5

  • User manual is useless - this is a device for the initiated (even the guys at theTelstra shop had dificulties finding some of the functions
  • windows mobile is not user freindly - basicallu it is a packet of poooooo tickets
 

appearance

5

  • QWERTY Bar Form
 

battery

1.5

  • Battery only lasts 1 day
  • poor battery life
  • Battery life is terrible
  • Battery removal required to reset it
  • battery lasts as long as i do in the sack
  • Bright and responsive touchscreen LCD, good battery life, long WiFi range
  • reasonable battery life
  • fast, reasonable battery life, HSPA
  • better battery lifetime
 
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portability

4

  • Heavy phone
  • Compact form factor
  • compact
  • Light
 

size

0.5

  • fiddly little buttons
 

connectivity

5

  • 2.5mm headphone jack
  • Excellent connectivity including HSPA
  • GPS and Wi-Fi
  • Excellent connectivity including HSPA, GPS and Wi-Fi, Slim and solid build, TV-out Telstra services including Foxtel
  • full set of connectivity options
  • Wi-Fi
 
  • Great Connectivity with HSPA
  • Bluetooth 2.0
  • WIFI and GPS integrated
  • QWERTY Bar Form, 240 x 320 Portrait Touchscreen, Great Connectivity with HSPA, Bluetooth 2.0, WIFI and GPS integrated, TV out, compact, iMate Online Services
  • Bluetooth and Wi Fi functions took a little while to work out but once set up works great
  • WiFI
  • easy to synch information between PC and smartphone
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design

5

  • likeable design
  • design
  • Light, design, built, tech spec, i-Q Services
 

maps

5

  • There's no GPS
  • GPS COM PORT 4 Lockup
  • GPS
  • lots of functionality - like gps
  • Great mobile browsing, access to email and platform for Google maps
  • Love the GPS for navigation
 

image quality

0.5

  • Also had quality issues
  • Quality issues
 

video

5

  • Video Out
  • Video Calling
  • The direct video out is great for watching Foxtel on my LCD with
 

resolution

0.5

  • Lower resolution display compared to previous i-mates
  • Tiny QWERTY keyboard, Lower resolution display compared to previous i-mates
  • lower screen resolution compared to rest of its product line
  • Lower resolution display compared to previous I-mates: yeah for good phone like this should be have great resolution display
  • Lower resolution display compared to previous I-mates: yeah for good phone like this should be have great resolution display, but one again, no problem, still great
 

memory

0.5

  • Lacks user available RAM
 

performance

5

  • Requires constant resets to keep performance
  • Fast HSUPA/HSDPA speeds
  • fast
  • Fast Operating system
  • Super Fast data and processing
 

menu

0.5

  • This is also a quirky device - I had problems shutting down the phone and problems finding basic functions
 

build quality

5

  • Slim and solid build
  • Size and build quality
 

usability

5

  • the device freezes and needs to be reset once or twice a day and it's not intuitive to use
  • Ease of use
 

energy efficiency

0.5

  • Mysteriously went dead (no power
 

focus

0.5

  • Camera does not have auto focus capabilities
 

screen

0.5

  • average display
  • 2.5mm headphone jack, average display
  • Lower resolution display compared to previous I-mates: yeah for good phone like this should be have greatresolution display
  • Lower resolution display compared to previous I-mates: yeah for good phone like this should be have greatresolution display, but one again, no problem, still great
 

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