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JasJar i-Mate (Universal) review - - Introduction |
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martedì 20 settembre 2005 |
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Pagina 3 di 7
FORM FACTOR (Aesthetic looks, build quality)
Beautiful: no real objections or criticisms to be made. Now that we can carefully study its looks and aesthetic design we can begin to understand why the man pictured on the box packaging had so much to smile about! It's squared yet smooth-edged design, its brushed aluminium finish coupled with a casing in highly-resistant plastic and the unexpected but well-chosen dark-brown colouring all make the JasJar stand out as a highly individual and stylish handheld that won't go unnoticed.
All things considered its size does not seem excessively worrisome when the device is proudly paraded on its own. It appears just as tall and as wide as any other handheld with a Vga screen although, on the other hand, its thickness does betray a much heftier depth when compared to its rivals that come without a telephone module and external Qwerty keyboard. Its apparently small aspect owes a lot to its dark colour tones and tapered edges but when placed alongside other Pdas the JasJar's true dimensions are put into proper proportion. Although perhaps a subjective opinion, we would still say that the device remains pocket-sized.
Let's compare the JasJar, for demonstrative purposes, with another handheld that fits a strong technicological package into a compact size: the Fujitsu Siemens Pocket LOOX 720 (which will be our comparative model for the rest of the review). The extra millimetres that the JasJar has to carry can be noticed quite clearly in the photo.
Even more obvious, as anticipated, is the noticeable thickness of the i-mate Pda Phone. These extra dimensions all add up and make for a conspicuous weight and presence when the device is placed in one's jacket or trouser pocket.
The JasJar's build quality is of a high level. We'd go as far as saying that this is probably the PDA with the best construction assembly that we have ever come across. Although only the top part of the device's casing has a thin aluminium sheet covering, the plastic used for the rest of the handheld's external shell is very rigid, so much so that the only real way of distinguishing it from the metal part is by 'feeling' for the difference in 'temperature' between the plastic and aluminium parts.
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