i-mate's JASJAR redux, the K-JAR

It looks like i-mate's ongoing collaboration with TechFaith is starting to pick up a good head of steam, seeing how they've gone and entrusted the Chinese ODM with serving up the de facto successor to the HTC-sourced JASJAR. Not a heck of a lot is known about this pivoting, flipping, QWERTY-sporting monster of a device, though it apparently (strangely) lacks that all-important 3G radio its predecessor packed. Features are rumored to include a 2.8-inch QVGA display, WiFi, Bluetooth, 128MB of ROM, 64MB of RAM, and a TI OMAP750 core clipping along at an undisclosed clock speed. With i-mate making (or at least trying to make) inroads in the US market, this is one Pocket PC phone the full-keypad lovers among us will be tracking with eagle eyes.

[Via HowardForums, thanks Galt]

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 25th 2006 5:51PM]

Looks Good!!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 25th 2006 6:54PM]

I REALLY wanted a JasJar about a year ago. After settling for K-Jam, I'm glad I didn't blow the full grand on the JasJar. After a nightmarish couple months with Windows Mobile 5, I'm now enjoying my BB 8700. No matter what hardware is behind this thing, if it's still running WM5, I won't even give it a second look.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 25th 2006 7:54PM]

is this what your talkign about cause this looks dramaticaly different
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=648
also found here
http://www.msmobilenews.com/page/1465/

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 25th 2006 9:30PM]

What is i-Mate thinking? They continue stepping backwards. Yet another awful non-HTC device. They won't be in business much longer at this rate...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 26th 2006 4:44PM]

Unforunately it is HTC who has dumped i-mate, leaving them no choice but to look for another ODM. Given HTC has plenty of experience making WM phones, it would be quite sometime before others can catch up.