Mobile Blogging Device: I-Mate PDA2K
By leelefever on June 13, 2005 - 12:26pm.
I’ve gotten the mobile blogging bug lately. As you’ll see soon, I have plans for a new site that will have a blog that will be updated predominately by a mobile device. As part of this, I’m trying to find the best device for the job. Some of the major features I see as being necessary/nice to have for mobile blogging:
- Qwerty Keyboard
- GSM: Global System for Mobile Communications (global standard cell phone signal)
- GPRS: General Packet Radio Service (Internet using GSM)
- Wi-Fi (wireless high speed Internet)
- BlueTooth (Short range connections to other devices)
- Camera (a thing with which you take pictures)
I started looking on Mobile Planet and started seeing a new company called I-Mate. I-Mate has a device called the PDA2K that is the most converged piece of technology I’ve ever seen. It comes with a $800 price tag, but fits the bill for mobile blogging like nothing I’ve seen.
You can read a very thorough review of the PDA2K here (which I found via PubSub).
I think this may be the device that I eventually use. One point that really made me feel good about the I-Mate and the people behind I-Mate – The PDA2K comes with Skype built-in. I'm still in awe about that little nugget.
Mobile Blogging Device: I-Mate PDA2K
I've always been a Pocket PC guy, but even the smallest PPC phone is relatively huge, and Windows-based smartphones seldom have keyboards.
That's why I finally settled on a Treo. It hits the sweet spot, being the size of an iPod with a decent keyboard, decent camera, and a surprisingly decent browser. (I've always been extremely disappointed with Pocket IE on my iPaq and Axim.)
And it *kills* every PPC device I've ever touched in one vital area... battery life. I can watch three or four hours of ripped DVD video on the Treo and still have plenty of power left to take calls and browse the web.
Mobile Blogging Device: I-Mate PDA2K
Hi Lee,
You also might want to check out the Sidekick 2 that Danger puts out via T-Mobile. It's got the Qwerty keyboard, the camera, it's pretty small and it's way cheaper than the pocket PC based devices out there. Can't do all the things they do of course, but for the money it seems like a great mobile blogging device. I think there's one in my future.
Steve
Mobile Blogging Device: I-Mate PDA2K
Hi Lee,
You also might want to check out the Sidekick 2 that Danger puts out via T-Mobile. It's got the Qwerty keyboard, the camera, it's pretty small and it's way cheaper than the pocket PC based devices out there. Can't do all the things they do of course, but for the money it seems like a great mobile blogging device. I think there's one in my future.
Steve
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