Lukas Svoboda: Strategy, Architecture, Governance & Technology

Just found out today that the iMate SP6 does indeed support HSDPA which is fantastic news. Not that Vodafone NZ is trumpeting it yet, but HSDPA is supposed to now be the fastest mobile network in NZ. It will be great to get > 1 Meg a second data connections to a mobile phone!

I've managed to get my mits on an iMate SP6 pre-release model. It feels nice and solid and has some improvements. Some initial things: It's got a 2 Megapixel camera and is 3G capable. Two cameras with one dedicated for video calling, so yes the first imate smartphone with video calling! No Wifi (I suspect it's pushing sh*t uphill to get Wifi and 3G radio stacks into a unit so small). Check the pictures out (thanks to supermondo camera phone photographer Adam Green) for some pics of yours truly with it. This is the first full featured Microsoft smartphone in my opinion. Not only is it an amazingly compelling application platform but with a high spec'd camera and a decent data connection some very interesting applications are possible!