The imate Jam was a PDA/Smartphone released in December 2004 by HTC. Offering facilities such as Internet, MSN Messenger, Music, Camera the product was a market leader at the time of release. The phone also offered GPRS, Bluetooth, USB and Infrared functionality. The imate Jam has now been discontinued in favor of other newer HTC products.

Features and functions of the imate Jam include:

1. 64MB RAM, up to 2GB external memory through a card
2. Operating System - Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003
3. WAP, HTML and XHTML
4. MP3/AAC Player
5. Intel PXA272 416 MHz processor
6. MSN Messenger
7. Music
8. 1.3 Megapixel Camera
9. Games

Just when you are thinking that the iMate Jam is a good combo of a PDA and Phone they throw in one last feature a 1.3 mega pixel camera which takes some very crisp looking pictures, we had a play with this and then using the images in MMS messages and emails which even enabled us to use a blogging tool.

The iMate Jam is a smaller version of the PDA2K we had our paws on 2 weeks ago and while we loved the PDA2K it was just bit too porky, this slimmer iMate Jam is a much better bet and only a tad bigger than a standard smartphone. SIM free it's available for £389.99 and that's a fair price given you get a smartphone and PDA in the space occupied by just one device.http://www.lordpercy.com/imate_jam_review.htm

Combination handheld/phone devices are becoming ever more common. The trick with such convergence devices is to get the right mix of features for whichever segment of the buying public is being targeted, and make them all easily accessible. Often, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC Phone Edition devices are praised for their touch-sensitive screens, relatively large library of third-party software, and good integration into existing office systems. But they sometimes lose out in terms of overall size, and, in many cases, are tied to particular network operators for voice and data services. i-mate’s JAM overcomes all the negatives in one fell swoop, being remarkably small and light, and also available SIM-free.http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/handhelds/0,39030065,39188426,00.htm

The i-mate JAM is the first Pocket PC Phone to come with Windows Media Player 10 for Windows Mobile. This gives you some excellent new features that tightly integrate with the desktop version of Windows Media Player 10 as well as Windows XP Media Center 2005. It makes your Pocket PC function like a full blown Portable Media Center (minus the multi-gigabyte hard drive).http://pocketnow.com/review/i-mate-jam