i-mate jamin don't buy!

[glass]

its like taking a step back in time this device is much slower than my 2 year old m1000 and keeps crashing. I slept in this morning the phone crashed (no alarm).

I love the form factor however compared to my m1000/xda

is the older magician as slow?

[rkde]

Readin your subject...

It hardly seams like a good advert to the phone, I have owned all XDA's and yet not the fastest is still much quicker than an xda 1, 2 and low and behold it leaves the silly xda 2i standing.

Think about it! its almost half the size, its the same when you have a laptop the smaller you go the lower the spec in many cases.

Try over clocking it. I get very good performance from it and from a point of view from someone who has every version they sell (except the Universal) I have to say this is the best one they sell. its speck on some of the items is much more than you could expect.

Ok the phone has a few problems with the ROM but thats also what you expect.

Dont putting down a excellent phone because you have not worked out how to get the best from it, and it is faster than the i-mate JAM not by much but faster.

[fastest]

Dont putting down a excellent phone because you have not worked out how to get the best from it, and it is faster than the i-mate JAM not by much but faster.

Are you refering to the JAMin here? If so, you are sadly very mistaken. The original Jam runs rings around the JAMin (except graphics performance)

At the end of the day it depends on what you want. If you want a phone enabled PDA, the JAMin is a good choice. If you want a PDA enabled phone, then the original JAM is miles better.

[Matterhorn]

I have the Jam and the Jamin. The Jam is a bit zippier, but in the week that I've had the Jamin I haven't noticed that it is dog slow either. In fact, since I got rid of the Extended Rom on the Jamin, on every day stuff, it is performing like the Jam. I can only assume that it will just keep getting better with future ROM upgrades. One good thing I've noticed about the Jamin is that it uses less electricity than the Jam. At comparable screen brightness, the Jam was using 110ma while the Jamin was using only 80. That's a good saving. OK I'm a newbie to the Jamin like everyone, time will tell if it stacks up.

[Grappa]

I've got mine since a week and YES, it's slower than the S110 but the battery last for much longer. 200MHz processor against 416 and WM5 helps a lot. With the old S110 (and extended battery 1550MHa) the battery last for 2 working days (exchange sync with sms handshake), with the S200 I reach easily the 3rd day.

[Grappa]

I've got mine since a week and YES, it's slower than the S110 but the battery last for much longer. 200MHz processor against 416 and WM5 helps a lot. With the old S110 (and extended battery 1550MHa) the battery last for 2 working days (exchange sync with sms handshake), with the S200 I reach easily the 3rd day.

[wig]

Go to the Wizard forums... a bunch of resourceful souls figured ou tthe OMAP processor acceleration. I did that to my 8125 (k-jam equiv) and it makes a night and day difference. BTW: The wizard usese the same CPU as the jammin. Give it a whirl!

[spangelsaregreat]

Hi,

I am now into week three of JAMin ownership and thought I would post a few bullet points about it compared to the JAM.

- it is slower than the JAM, but not so as to make it annoying. Use of the OMAP overclocker on Tom Tom GPS makes it totally useable. I don't really notice it now.

- battery life is a HUGE improvement. Never seen it drop below 50% yet.

- screen is a lot brighter.

- the extra buttons are great. Used with Magic Button and Vito Button mapper greatly reduces the need to use the stylus.

- the camera is very good.

- overall build quality is the same as the JAM but it just looks better.

- Memory allocation is improved. I have only had to soft reset every couple of days and only get the odd crash.

- my only real gripe just now is that there is no WM5 version of OnSpeed so I am not using it to browse just now. It is due out soon though.

Overall I am perfectly happy with the JAMin. The only real issue is the processor speed. However use of the OMAP overclocker gives you best of both worlds of speed when you need it and greater battery life when you don't (lets face it how fast does the phone need to be in standby mode?).

Regards