Updated 14 Feb, 2012, 4:00 pm IST

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i-mate JAQ

31 Jan, 2007, 5:39 pm IST | Aalaap Ghag | Smartphones

Multimedia
The phone has the usual set of multimedia features with Windows Media player with support for audio and video playback, but the sound from the speaker phone is not loud enough in moderately noisy environments. Using MP3s as ringtones might not be such a good idea, as they will barely be audible.

The phone also comes with a standard 2.5mm stereo jack and a pair of bundled earphones. The quality of the earphones is average, and even those aren't too loud.

There is no camera on the JAQ, since it is intended to be a business smartphone.

Tech
The phone is a quad-band GSM phone with support for GRPS and EDGE networks. It has Bluetooth 1.2 support with no A2DP stereo profile, slow USB 1.1 via a mini-USB jack at the bottom, and an infrared port on the top of the phone. There is no support for WiFi, which is always a welcome addition to any business communication offering.

Internally, the phone runs on a 200MHz TI OMAP processor. It has 128MB of ROM and around 64MB of ram to play around with. While this processor is not uncommon, performance of the device was on the lower side with sluggish response to most actions.

The phone also has a miniSD memory card slot on the right side of the phone, above the 2.5mm stereo jack socket. miniSD cards are hot-swappable on the JAQ.

It runs Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Edition AKU 2.5. You get your usual suite of Windows Mobile software such as Outlook, Internet Explorer Mobile, MSN Messenger, Windows Media Player Mobile and Pocket Office.

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