i-mate reveals Ultimate 8502 and 9502: move over Kaiser

Well even though we have yet to see three of the five high-end Ultimate smartphones promised by i-mate earlier this year, the company has decided to reveal yet another pair of QWERTY-packing family members, including one -- the 9502 -- that gives the HTC Kaiser / TyTN II a run for its money. Almost identically-spec'ed to what is now the AT&T Tilt (save for the, um, tilt), the quad-band GSM / tri-band HSUPA Windows Mobile 6 handset manages to step up the game by featuring a VGA display along with video out, LED "flash," and standard 2.5-millimeter audio jack. Slightly less impressive but still pretty feature packed, the candybar-shaped Ultimate 8502 sports the same radios (including WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth 2.0), memory configuration (256MB ROM / 128MB RAM) and 400MHz Qualcomm processor as its big brother, but replaces the 3.0 megapixel autofocus camera with a 2.0 megapixel fixed focus and, more importantly, drops the display down to a pedestrian 2.6-inch QVGA. Still, there's a lot to love here, but until we see some pricing and release dates, i-mate, we're not gonna go blending our current phones just yet.

[Thanks, Salem S.]

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[(Unverified) Posted Oct 23rd 2007 11:46AM]

Overview video of the XGA out driving a plasma -- it works pretty well. iMate includes a dongle that connects the phone to an XGA cable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xpF4j9av7w

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 23rd 2007 7:30PM]

dude that phone looks like the sidekick slide

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 23rd 2007 8:44PM]

Yep, it does look like the sidekick, but is a hell of a lot more powerful. I wonder what the dimensions are like compared to the slide?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 29th 2007 5:17PM]

this is way better than sidekick.. i have a a side kick and a treo 650 and would love to get one of the i-mate Ultimate 9502 so i dont have to carry 2 phones.. can anyone tell me where can i buy this phone.. thanks