Official Imate Specs

[wardy]

After Emailing Imate asking various questions on the specs of their up and coming K-Jam they sent me this ....

States Bluetooth as 1.1

[ShALLaX]

It says "Compliant with v1.1" which doesnt rule out the possibility that its 2.0. Also their information is very sketchy... 1.2/2.0 MP camera (for god sakes... which is it?)... and Wireless B/G/E/I compliant (it only appears to be B compliant).

[robinton]

I believe the camera is 1.3Mpixel with some built-in function to interpolate to 2Mpixel.

The network could be 802.11b/g/e/i compatible and still have a top speed of 11Mbit implemented...
802.11g adds higher speed, shorter preamble and support for the OFDM encoding scheme. So it could support the 802.11g at 11Mbit, preventing the device from dragging older g access points down when connected (Some of the older 802.11g access points fall back to limiting EVERYTHING connected to 802.11b speeds when a 802.11b device connects.)

802.11e just adds Quality Of service support and bursting

802.11i improves the security with 802.1x support and CCMP support

I do agree that the Bluetooth support they list is merely what was certified AT THE TIME that the document was originaly created. We'll have to see what is real when we start getting our hands on it. :)

Robert Harrold

[saldous]

I can't see how the Wizard will hve BT 2.0 when the Universal doesn't. The Universal is the all singing all dancing device that people pay a premium for. So there is no way the Wizard at the cheaper market will have a better spec IMO.

[saldous]

Also note that according to Microsoft the Wizard has a newer build of WM5 on it than the Universal as well !! See: http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonlan/archive/2005/09/24/473604.aspx#comments