i-mate SP5m - user opinions and reviews

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Design
7.9
Features
8.1
Performance
8.0
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I was fully convinced to buy this cell previously, but now after reading comments from all of you i wish to ask some one or anyone who would guide me about sp5m.worth it or not. Even I have been using sp3i that was terribly pathetic and I had major lost of the money when I sold sp3i.

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  • 2005-11-20 15:57
  • PEZR
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is very bad phone. keyboard is very small for numbers. and the media buttons are stupid. no need for them. is easy to see controls on screen and use joystick when playing media. why 4 dedicated buttons? very stupid cheap looking desing. i changed to sp5. much much much better but still only 1.3 mp camera. stupid.

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  • 2005-11-12 23:36
  • 4s3R
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The camera is mediocre. 1.3 mp is not that great. To get decent pictures, you need 4 mp or higher. I don't understand why these jackass companies keep coming out with 1.3 mp crap when we all know that samsung has announced 7 and 8 mp camera phones. WTF, put those goddam cameras (or at least a lousy 4mp unit) in your phones, for crying out loud!

Each year I buy an expensive phone and it is not quite up to the hype. The manufacturers need to stop trying to make these marginally improved phones, and develop a long term plan for the technologies they are going to have. Then they need to fill out their products with mature, high quality versions of these technologies.

I am done throwing money away at this crap and I am done ranting.

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  • 2005-11-11 19:14
  • 4s3R
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This phone sucks monkey balls. I hate it. It feels terrible to hold. And the bluetooth is for headphones only. It cannot be used to sync with your pc. For that, you have to use cable. The wifi is WEP only, no WPA.

Someone asked about a SIM manager. What the hell is that? What is there to manage on your SIM card? Tell me more about what you mean by SIM manager and I will tell you if you can do it on this crappy phone.

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  • 2005-11-11 19:10
  • 4s3R
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i plan to buy this phone!
can all of u who used to have it tell me about the quality of camera and pm3 player(does it has a quality as se k750 or w800 or not?)
many thanks!

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  • 2005-11-05 14:59
  • P%$x
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Hi.
I just need one of this product to now how good it is. thanks, i got to heere from you soon.

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  • 2005-11-05 14:30
  • NHYM
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hi everyone whoever reads,
I got this phone and earlier i used I-mate smartphone2 you belive me the phone is excellent the performance is excellent i tried all connecting through ir,bluetooth,Wi-fi and even syncronise nicely wiht my PC ,but some difficulties faced is that i cant blew the wallpapers and select the required portion,it doesn't have sim manager , earlier the club imate support use to be very good but for the past few weeks nobody is picking up my queries. Rest is fine .ok bye for the momment.

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  • 2005-11-05 14:22
  • iwXw
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Hi all,
I am a new user of SP5m (since yesterday...) and it works fine: Windows Mobile 5.0 is great, and wifi in my terminal...there are no words... I have WPA security in my home and it works without any trouble.

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  • 2005-11-04 19:25
  • mrM0
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HELLO SP5M USERS!!!!

kindly tell me hows the navigation / joystic in this phone. is it easy to navigate? thanksss.

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  • 2005-10-29 09:54
  • PGhP
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One question about the WiFi: Does it support WPA authentication or just WEP authentication?

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  • 2005-10-28 22:21
  • xTJH
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The Orange-branded version, aka Orange SPV C600, will be the same but without WiFi, from what I have read.

One question: this phone having Bluetooth 1.1 instead of 1.2... will this affect using a bluetooth headset to a noticeable degree?

Also, is there much difference between 1.3 and 2 megapixels in terms of picture quality?

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  • 2005-10-20 23:15
  • mnXJ
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Umm Guys, I just nipped to Dubai last week and found it there without even looking!! Liked it, Bought it & now enjoying it.
Someone asked about the speaker and it is fantastic (I say this coming from a K750) which had a very poor ear piece!!
Screen is really nice!! So bright and easy to read! and the new Windows software is a breaze, much better than the iMate SP3. The phone it self does feel heavy (Heavier than the K750) but still more solid and quality than anything. Speaker phone is really nice & loud and it def has WiFi. Was connecting to every hot spot in Dubai only to find them requiring a Log in name and pass word!!
Anyways, Price there (Dubai) was 1,899 Dirhams which is about 280 pounds!!
Hope this helps!!

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  • 2005-10-09 02:18
  • SeFH
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just got the SP5m from belcompany.nl and it certainly has wifi onboard.

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  • 2005-10-07 21:06
  • Apiv
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The features are excelant , but I want some one talk about the performance and the speaker is it clear or not ? Can you hear the caller very good or not !!!
any problems such as hanging ?Q?Q? what about the attachments in e-mails ?
catagories in contacts ?

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  • 2005-10-07 07:28
  • GgJH
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How i can install a Certificate on iMate5m, i tried but tells that the security does't allow to proceed, can any one help? I need this certificate to access Exchange 2003 Mobile Services by Activesync.

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  • 2005-10-02 11:53
  • MPvS
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hye cooooooooooool phone not heavy above average battery v.good design will not be so expensive
vv.good cammmmmmmmmm

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  • 2005-09-25 14:57
  • PG3}
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I heard that i-mate were releasing this minus the wifi. If that is true then that sucks my n*ts. And my n*ts are big.

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  • 2005-09-08 23:35
  • Px@q
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