i-mate JASJAM (2007)

Bad – Overall, it has a good strong build quality and the wifi is good. It can support many applications and easy to write emails. I despised making phone calls with it and after 3 months, replaced with a mobile phone. Remember, this is a Personal Digital Assistant and is great at it but an awful mobile phone. PDA has a great 2.8 inch screen. It is clear, tough and a good response when using the stylus. It has so many options and capabilities, perfect to use as a mobile office. It has good styling and the slide out QWERTY keyboard is easy to use, even with big fingers. The battery life is terrible as a mobile phone. If you're a heavy user, it will need to be charged every day. It is difficult to use as a mobile phone. I found myself constantly putting calls on hold with my ear and accidentally calling other people.

Good – Overall - it's a good unit. I've had my jasjam for over a year now and I fully expected from the moment I bought it that it wouldn't be as polished as many other units out there. I'm a bit of a geek and I like to be able to get my e-mail on the run, install my preferred GPS software, and I even write my own windows mobile software for certain things. So truth be told I was more interested in the PDA and data capabilities of this phone than the usability and that's where it wins hands down. It runs windows mobile apps fast and is reliable, and that matters when I'm browsing the web or sending email on the train. All in all 4/5 - better build quality, a bit more durability, slightly smaller and integrated GPS and I'd give it 5/5 on the spot. Fast CPU. Tough, clear screen. Great reception (except for wifi) and good battery life. Works well for simple calls and SMS, and as a GPS device via bluetooth. It's a bit of a brick, akward to carry around. It also has many small issues (such as reporting the SIM card is not in, or the keyboard not responding). The inbuilt digital camera is pretty much useless.

Terrible – Can't wait to be rid of it! Could be good for someone who wants to play with all the modes, but its not very good if you need to use it as a work device. Also the numbers and letters are very small. Looks Nice! Really hard and fiddly to use, the phone part is not easy, and you have to use the stylus to do most things

Good – Overall I highly recommend the imate jasjam, but make sure you get the second released version where they have ironed out the glitches. Once Imate place a better camera and built in GPS, with a new intergrated software release this phone would possibly be the ultimate in PDA phones, the size is very attractive, fairly heavy but you would expect that from such a powerful device.

I recommend this device to someone who need reliability. The Imate JasJam is the most reliable PDA phone i've had to date, i have been told there has been to released versions of this phone and i am told the original release was glitchy but since i have the second release version i have had no problems with mine No GPS receiver built in, for a pda phone with all the features you can imagine, it doesn't come packed with a GPS, and the camera has a poor flash and only a 2mp camera which is starting to look dated

Terrible – Someone warned me against it before I bought it - be smarter than I was and take notice - it just doesn't deliver. First phone (and I've had a lot) that I can actually hear - even in it's cover in my bag. I can get better reception on my Next G phone than my partner can on his CDMA (but that could just be about our fairly remote area, not the phone) Very, very dodgy system. The flip out keyboard often doesn't work for no reason. And then magically will enable itself again after you've fiddled about with the stylus keyboard for a while. I get random error message, the phone refused to answer, refuses to hang up, the screen fades at crutial moments (although that may be fixable - according to another review there's a patch). Very badly tested unit, too many glitches to be forgiven in this price bracket.