14 DAY TRIAL // Last time we saw the i-mate PDAL was at the Microsoft Tech-Ed in Barcelona and now, it has again stepped in the front line of the mobile market by being announced as available in USA.
This has happened at CES 2007 in Las Vegas and this announcement will surely make a lot of people happy because this handheld is much lighter than its predecessors manufactured by i-mate and with a lot of muscles packed in a small body.
There is yet another thing that makes it just a little more special when being compared with the other i-mate mobile devices and that is the fact that this is one of the very few handsets distributed under the i-mate brand which is not manufactured by HTC.
The American buyers of this highly expected phone will get their hands on a quad band GSM device, working on 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz networking and running a Windows Mobile 5.0 Phone Edition with AKU 3.2 on a TI OMAP 850 processor going around the clock at a speed of 200 MHz.
The PDAL also features a 2.4 inch 65k color QVGA TFT LCD transflective touchscreen display, with a 240x320 resolution, GPRS and EDGE data transfer technologies, a 2 megapixel digital camera, 128 MB ROM and 64 MB of RAM built-in memory, a 5 way navigation pad, microSD memory expansion card slot, wireless Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity with A2DP stereo headset profile, Java MIDP 2.0 for the latest video games and applications, video playback capability, push email and the very handy WiFi 802.11 b/g.
In the same announcement, i-mate has also said the PDAL will be available to the buyers beginning with the end of January 2007, through the reseller channel and the carrier stores across USA, but they have failed to say anything about the price tag the handset will be stuck with after its launch.